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Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.

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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
To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
HORACE

Degrees Last Men
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

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

Gravem Need War Wine
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
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
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.
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Home Life Night
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
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
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Ask Enough Sufficiency
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
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Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.
HORACE

Last Poverty Wing
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
A good resolve will make any port.
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Adversity Port Resolve
Punishment follows close on crime.
HORACE

Crime Follow Punishment

Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.

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