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And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
HORACE

Circumstances Endeavor Myself
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
HORACE

Day Morrow Seize Trust
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
HORACE

Essence Soul Yesterday
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious

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