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Remember to be calm in adversity.
HORACE

Adversity Calm Remember
Do not try to find out – we’re forbidden to know – what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
HORACE

Destiny End Try
What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?
HORACE

Face Good Men Sense
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
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Let him who has enough ask for nothing more.
HORACE

Ask Enough Sufficiency
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
HORACE

Mistake Ridiculous Same
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
HORACE

Badly Life People Privacy
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
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
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
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
HORACE

Eye Mind Trust
Not to be lost in idle admiration is the only sure means of making and preserving happiness.
HORACE

Admiration Lost Mean
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
HORACE

Difficulty Intervention Worthy
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

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