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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

People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE

Country House People
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
HORACE

Motivational Positive Wise
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
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Character Consistent Last
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.
HORACE

Home Life Night
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.
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Attitude Relax Soul
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.]
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Death King Tower
Remember to be calm in adversity.
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Adversity Calm Remember
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
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Book Fate Live Today
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
HORACE

Judge Justice Life Umpires
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
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Mean Money Stills
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
HORACE

Appreciation Bronze Country People
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Emotion Forth Future Thankful
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.
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Essence Soul Yesterday
Half is done when the beginning is done.
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Country Half Happen People

And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]

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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.]

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