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In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

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What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
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
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

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

Evil Life Serenity
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
HORACE

Joyful Moment Victory
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
Never without a shilling in my purse.
HORACE

Emotion People Purse Shilling
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
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
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Fern Field Fire Out

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