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There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
HORACE

Eye Mind Trust
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE

Country House People
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
HORACE

Gravem Need War Wine
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
HORACE

Death King Tower
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
By the favour of the heavens
HORACE

Favour Heaven Religious
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
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
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
HORACE

Think Wise Write
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.
HORACE

Owner Poor Thief

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