Don't overreact either to adversity or to prosperity. Nature has its regular
habits; we should enjoy its delights. Whatever our station in life, each of us
will be carried off by Death someday.
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Aequam memento rebus in arduis
servare mentem, non secus in bonis
........ab insolenti temperatam
................laetitia, moriture Delli,
seu maestus omni tempore vixeris,............................5
seu te in remoto gramine per dies
........festos reclinatum bearis
................interiore nota Falerni.
quo pinus ingens albaque populus
umbram hospitalem consociare amant.....................10
........ramis? quid obliquo laborat
................lympha fugax trepidare rivo?
huc vina et unguenta et nimium brevis
flores amoenae ferre iube rosae
........dum res et aetas et sororum............................15
................fila trium patiuntur atra.
cedes coëmptis saltibus et domo
villaque, flavus quam Tiberis lavit,
........cedes, et extructis in altum
................divitiis potietur heres.......................rb.....20
divesne, prisco natus ab Inacho,
nil interest an pauper et infirma
........de gente sub divo moreris;
................victima nil miserantis Orci.
omnes eodem cogimur, omnium...................rbl.......25
versatur urna serius ocius
........sors exitura et nos in aeternum
................exsilium impositura cumbae.