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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

Horace

Don’t waste the opportunity.
HORACE

Country Opportunity People Waste
Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
HORACE

Fall Peace War
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
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
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACE

Difficulty Intervention Worthy
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
HORACE

Inspirational Life Motivational
The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Soon will night be upon you, and the fabled Shades, and the shadowy Plutonian home.
HORACE

Home Life Night
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
HORACE

Anger Cut Punishment
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
HORACE

Emotion Forth Future Thankful
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
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
HORACE

Discarde Perceive Return
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.
HORACE

Guest Storm Willing
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
HORACE

Book Fate Live Today

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