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

Horace

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

Evil Life Serenity
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
HORACE

Authorship Care Write
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
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
Death’s dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
HORACE

Dark Death Needs
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
HORACE

Increase Money Owner Slave
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

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

Gravem Need War Wine
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
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE

Cover Lake Rivers Sea
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
HORACE

Home May Think
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
HORACE

Exercise Health Try
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
Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
HORACE

Conceited Race Self

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

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