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

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Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
HORACE

Mind Spill Superfluous
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACE

First Money Wealth
Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE

Gold Master People Slave
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
HORACE

Aim Brevity Obscure
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
Anger is brief madness
HORACE

Anger Brief Madness
In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.
HORACE

Fern Field Fire Out
There is a middle ground in things.
HORACE

Ground Latin Middle
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
HORACE

Acceptance Forbidden Lighter
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
HORACE

Plunder Time Year
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
HORACE

Depress People Think
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
HORACE

Men Time Year
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

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

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