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Horace

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

Evil Life Serenity
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
A good resolve will make any port.
HORACE

Adversity Port Resolve
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
HORACE

Birth Fall Joy Note
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
HORACE

Irrevocably Literature People Word
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
HORACE

Acquire Flames Strength
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter

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