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There is a middle ground in things.

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

Mind Spill Superfluous
A man perfect to the finger tips.
HORACE

Finger Men Perfect
The explanation avails nothing, which in leading us from one difficulty involves us in another.
HORACE

Difficulty Explanation Involve
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
The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
HORACE

Enjoy God Mean Wealth
Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets’ being second-rate.
HORACE

Men Poetry Rate
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
HORACE

Love Ready Sweet
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
HORACE

Fate Hand Name
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
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
HORACE

Attitude Relax Soul
Who’s started has half finished.
HORACE

Finish Half Start
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
HORACE

Brain Hard Work Nail
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

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

Face Good Men Sense
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
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Cover Lake Rivers Sea

There is a middle ground in things.

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