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		<title>Marcus Aurelius -- Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book  6, ch. 33 (8.33) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Accept modestly; surrender gracefully. [Ἄτύφως μὲν λαβεῖν, εὐλύτως δὲ ἀφεῖναι.] (Source (Greek)). Alternate translations: Receive temporal blessings without ostentation, when they are sent and thou shalt be able to part with them with all readiness and facility when they are taken from thee again. [tr. Casaubon (1634), 8.31] As to the Case of good Fortune; [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Accept modestly; surrender gracefully.</p>
<p>[Ἄτύφως μὲν λαβεῖν, εὐλύτως δὲ ἀφεῖναι.]</p>
<br><b>Marcus Aurelius</b> (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher<br><i>Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν]</i>, Book  6, ch. 33 (8.33) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/meditations0000marc_g6h3/page/128/mode/2up?q=%22accept+modestly%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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(<a href="http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0562.tlg001.perseus-grc1:8.33.1">Source (Greek)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>Receive temporal blessings without ostentation, when they are sent and thou shalt be able to part with them with all readiness and facility when they are taken from thee again.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius_Antoninus_-_His_Meditations_concerning_himselfe#THE_EIGHTH_BOOK:~:text=Receive%20temporal%20blessings%20without%20ostentation%2C%20when%20they%20are%20sent%20and%20thou%20shalt%20be%20able%20to%20part%20with%20them%20with%20all%20readiness%20and%20facility%20when%20they%20are%20taken%20from%20thee%20again.">Casaubon</a> (1634), 8.31]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>As to the Case of good Fortune; Take it without Pride, and Resign without Reluctance.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Emperor_Marcus_Antoninus:_His_Conversation_with_Himself/Book_8#:~:text=As%20to%20the%20Case%20of%20good%20Fortune%C2%A0%3B%20Take%20it%20without%20Pride%2C%20and%20Resign%20without%20Reluctance.">Collier</a> (1701)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Receive the gifts of fortune, without pride; and part with them, without reluctance.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/457829267955022580052/page/100/mode/2up?q=%22receive+the+gifts%22">Hutcheson/Moor</a> (1742); <a href="https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/55317/pg55317-images.html#:~:text=Receive%20the%20gifts%20of%20fortune%20without%20pride%3B%20and%20part%20with%20them%20without%20reluctance.">Hutcheson/Chrystal</a> (1902)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Receive any good fortune which falls to your lot, without being too much elated; and resign it, if necessary, without being dejected.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_meditations_of_Marcus_Aurelius_Anton/3uQIAAAAQAAJ?gbpv=1&bsq=%22receive%20any%20good%20fortune%22">Graves</a> (1792), 8.32]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Receive [wealth or prosperity] without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Thoughts_of_the_Emperor_Marcus_Aurelius_Antoninus/Book_VIII#:~:text=Receive%20%5Bwealth%20or%20prosperity%5D%20without%20arrogance%3B%20and%20be%20ready%20to%20let%20it%20go.">Long</a> (1862)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>As to the case of good fortune, take it without pride, and resign it without reluctance.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Meditations_of_Marcus_Aurelius/5qcAEZZibB0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%2233%20as%20to%22">Collier/Zimmern</a> (1887)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Modestly take, cheerfully resign.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Marcus_Aurelius_Antoninus_to_Himself/0X2BxfXnXKcC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22modestly%20take%22">Rendall</a> (1898)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Accept without arrogance, surrender without reluctance.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius_(Haines_1916)/Book_8#:~:text=Accept%20without%20arrogance%2C%20surrender%20without%20reluctance.">Haines</a> (Loeb) (1916)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Accept without pride, relinquish without a struggle.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Meditations_of_the_Emperor_Marcus_Antoninus/Book_8#:~:text=Accept%20without%20pride%2C%20relinquish%20without%20a%20struggle.">Farquharson</a> (1944)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Accept without arrogance, relinquish without demur.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Meditations/VVsmU-4YwFsC?gbpv=1&bsq=%228.33%22">Hard</a> (1997 ed.)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>To accept it without arrogance, to let it go with indifference.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/meditation-GeorgeHays/page/n197/mode/2up?q=%2233+to+accept%22">Hays</a> (2003)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Accept humbly; let go easily.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/marcus-aurelius-emperor-of-rome-martin-hammond-diskin-clay-meditations/page/77/mode/2up?q=%22accept+humbly%22">Hammond</a> (2006)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Accept without arrogance, relinquish without a struggle.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/meditations0000marc_m5f0/page/74/mode/2up?q=%22accept+without%22">Hard</a> (2011 ed.)] </blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Horace -- Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, #  8 &#8220;Ut Nasidieni,&#8221; l.  61ff (2.8.61-63) (30 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers, Why make such game of this poor life of ours? [Heu, Fortuna, quis est crudelior in nos Te Deus? Ut semper gaudes illudere rebus Humanis!] When &#8220;disaster&#8221; befalls the dinner party of Nasidienus (Rufus), Nomentanus tries to snap him out of a funk by philosophically / melodramatically bemoaning how [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers,<br />
Why make such game of this poor life of ours?</p>
<p><em>[Heu, Fortuna, quis est crudelior in nos<br />
Te Deus? Ut semper gaudes illudere rebus<br />
Humanis!]</em></p>
<br><b>Horace</b> (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]<br><i>Satires [Saturae, Sermones]</i>, Book 2, #  8 <i>&#8220;Ut Nasidieni,&#8221;</i> l.  61ff (2.8.61-63) (30 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Satires,_Epistles_%26_Art_of_Poetry_of_Horace/Sat2-8#:~:text=O%20Fortune%2C%20cruellest%20of%20heavenly%20powers%2C%0AWhy%20make%20such%20game%20of%20this%20poor%20life%20of%20ours%3F" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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When "disaster" befalls the dinner party of Nasidienus (Rufus), Nomentanus tries to snap him out of a funk by philosophically / melodramatically bemoaning how Fortune treats humanity.<br><br>

(<a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0062%3Abook%3D2%3Apoem%3D8%3Acard%3D54#:~:text=%22heu%2C%20Fortuna%2C%20quis%20est%20crudelior%20in%20nos%0Ate%20Deus%3F%20ut%20semper%20gaudes%20inludere%20rebus%0Ahumanis!">Source (Latin)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>Some mourne and blame their sorie fate, why Fortune shoulde be suche,<br>
That they suche blouddes shoulde nothinge have, and others overmuche.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A03670.0001.001/1:10.8?rgn=div2;view=fulltext#backDLPS107:~:text=Some%20mourne%20and,and%20others%20ouermuche.">Drant</a> (1567)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Fortune our Foe, thou art a scurvy Puss!<br>
Ah what a cruel Vixen th' art! ah how<br>
Do'st thou delight to mock us here below!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=eebo;c=eebo;idno=a44478.0001.001;node=A44478.0001.001:7;seq=1;rgn=div1;view=text#:~:text=Nor%20gave%20he,us%20here%20below!">I. W. Esq.</a>; ed. Brome (1666)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Unlucky Chance what God is so unkind,<br>
Thou lov'st to break the measures Man design'd.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=eebo;c=eebo;idno=a44471.0001.001;node=A44471.0001.001:7;seq=1;rgn=div1;view=text#:~:text=Unlucky%20Chance%20what,measures%20Man%20design%27d%3B">Creech</a> (1684)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Fortune, thou cruelest of powers divine, <br>
To joke poor mortals is a joke of thine.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresepistlesi00hora/page/158/mode/2up?q=%22Fortune%2C+thou+cruelest%22">Francis</a> (1747)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Ah cruel Fortune, foe to human bliss!<br>
Invidious power, it seems thy sole delight<br>
All our enjoyments in the bud to blight.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epodes_Satires_and_Epistles_of_Horac/TPgDAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22ah%20cruel%20fortune%22">Howes</a> (1845)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Alas! O fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou? How dost thou always take pleasure in sporting with human affairs!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0063%3Abook%3D2%3Apoem%3D8%3Acard%3D54#:~:text=Alas!%200%20fortune%2C%20what%20god%20is%20more%20cruel%20to%20us%20than%20thou%3F%20How%20dost%20thou%20always%20take%20pleasure%20in%20sporting%20with%20human%20affairs!">Smart/Buckley</a> (1853)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>O Fortune, what divinity so cruel against us as thou? What joy to thee 'tis ever to frustrate the plans of men! <br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresofhoracei00hora/page/128/mode/2up?q=%22divinity+so+cruel%22">Millington</a> (1870)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Ah Fortune, what divine power is more cruel towards us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human affairs!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Horace_for_English_Readers/fB8MAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22what%20divine%20power%22">Wickham</a> (1903)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Ah, Fortune, what god is more cruel toward us than thou! How thou dost ever delight to make sport of the life of man!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresepistlesa00horauoft/page/242/mode/2up?q=%22what+god+is+more+cruel%22">Fairclough</a> (Loeb) (1926)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Oh, Fortune, what god<br>
Is more cruel to us than you are! You always have fun<br>
Making fun of mankind!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresanndepist0000hora/page/152/mode/2up?q=%22is+more+cruel%22">Palmer Bovie</a> (1959)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Ah, Fortune! What god more cruel to us than you? <br>
You always like to play around with mankind’s hopes!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/horacessatiresep0000hora/page/46/mode/2up?q=%22What+god+more+cruel%22">Fuchs</a> (1977)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Ah, Fortune! Is there a crueler god?<br> 
How you love to toy with us, playing with our lives!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/essentialhoraceo0000hora/page/192/mode/2up?q=%22ah+fortune+is%22">Raffel</a> (1983)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">What god,<br>
O Fortune, is more cruel toward us than Thou?<br>
How you rejoice in upsetting man’s hopes!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/completeodessati0000hora/page/310/mode/2up?q=%22o+fortune%22">Alexander</a> (1999)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Fortune, most cruel of all the gods, what<br>
would you do for laughs without us humans?<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresofhorace0000hora_r9g5/page/88/mode/2up?q=%22fortune+most+cruel%22">Matthews</a> (2002)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Shame on you Lady Luck!<br>
No other god is so cruel. What pleasure you get from mocking<br>
the plans of men!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresofhoracep00hora/page/72/mode/2up?q=%22shame+on+you+lady+luck%22">Rudd</a> (2005 ed.)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">O Fortune, what deity treats us more<br>
Cruelly than you? How you always delight in mocking<br>
Human affairs!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/HoraceSatiresBkIISatVIII.php#anchor_Toc98155285:~:text=O%20Fortune%2C%20what,Human%20affairs!">Kline</a> (2015)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Horace -- Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, #  2 &#8220;Quae virtus et quanta,&#8221; l. 135ff (2.2.135-136) (30 BC) [tr. Wickham (1903)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So live, my boys, as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. [Quocirca vivite fortes fortiaque adversis opponite pectora rebus.] Often misattributed to Cicero. (Source (Latin)). Alternate translations: Live bravely then, And in all troubles quit your selves like men. [tr. A. B.; ed. Brome (1666)] Then live Resolv&#8217;d, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So live, my boys, as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.</p>
<p><em><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">[Quocirca vivite fortes<br />
fortiaque adversis opponite pectora rebus.]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></em></p>
<br><b>Horace</b> (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]<br><i>Satires [Saturae, Sermones]</i>, Book 2, #  2 <i>&#8220;Quae virtus et quanta,&#8221;</i> l. 135ff (2.2.135-136) (30 BC) [tr. Wickham</a> (1903)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Horace_for_English_Readers/fB8MAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22front+its+blows+with+brave+hearts%22&pg=PA215&printsec=frontcover" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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Often misattributed to <a href="https://wist.info/author/cicero-marcus-tullius/">Cicero</a>.<br><br>

(<a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0062%3Abook%3D2%3Apoem%3D2%3Acard%3D89#:~:text=quocirca%20vivite%20fortes%0Afortiaque%20adversis%20opponite%20pectora%20rebus">Source (Latin)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Live bravely then,<br>
And in all troubles quit your selves like men.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=eebo;c=eebo;idno=a44478.0001.001;node=A44478.0001.001:7;seq=1;rgn=div1;view=text#:~:text=For%20Nature%20nere,selves%20like%20men.">A. B.</a>; ed. Brome (1666)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Then live Resolv'd, my Sons, refuse to yield,<br>
And when Fates press make Constancy your shield.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=eebo;c=eebo;idno=a44471.0001.001;node=A44471.0001.001:7;seq=1;rgn=div1;view=text#:~:text=That%20which%20was,Constancy%20your%20shield.">Creech</a> (1684)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Then be not with your present lot deprest, <br>
And meet the future with undaunted breast<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresepistlesi00hora/page/92/mode/2up?q=%22let+fortune+rage%22">Francis</a> (1747)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Bear up then, Boys! and stem the adverse tide,<br>
Patience your stay and providence your guide!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epodes_Satires_and_Epistles_of_Horac/TPgDAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22the%20land,%20my%20fons%22">Howes</a> (1845)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Wherefore, live undaunted; and oppose gallant breasts against the strokes of adversity.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0063%3Abook%3D2%3Apoem%3D2%3Acard%3D89#:~:text=Wherefore%2C%20live%20undaunted%3B%20and%20oppose%20gallant%20breasts%20against%20the%20strokes%20of%20adversity.">Smart/Buckley</a> (1853)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>So, then, live bravely on, and bravely stem adversity's opposing stream.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresofhoracei00hora/page/78/mode/2up?q=%22nor+him+nor+me%22">Millington</a> (1870)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Then live like men of courage, and oppose<br>
Stout hearts to this and each ill wind that blows.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Satires,_Epistles_%26_Art_of_Poetry_of_Horace/Sat2-2#:~:text=Holder%2C%20I%20say,wind%20that%20blows.">Conington</a> (1874)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Live, then, as brave men, and with brave hearts confront the strokes of fate.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresepistlesa00horauoft/page/146/mode/2up?q=%22nature+in+truth%22">Fairclough</a> (Loeb) (1926)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>SO LIVE BRAVE LIVES: STAND UP TO THE BLOWS OF FATE!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresanndepist0000hora/page/108/mode/2up?q=%22nature+indeed%22">Palmer Bovie</a> (1959)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">So then, live, live and endure. <br>
Meet life's difficulties with strong, enduring hearts.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/horacessatiresep0000hora/page/28/mode/2up?q=%22has+no+owners%22">Fuchs</a> (1977)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Good reason whereby you should be <br>
happy and confront adversity<br>
with an undaunted soul.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/completeodessati0000hora/page/258/mode/2up?q=%22good+reason+whereby%22">Alexander</a> (1999)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Live as brave men,<br>
then, standing chest to chest with changeful fate.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresofhorace0000hora_r9g5/page/62/mode/2up?q=%22live+as+brave+men%22">Matthews</a> (2002)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">So be brave<br>
and bravely throw out your chest to meet the force of fate!<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresofhoracep00hora/page/46/mode/2up?q=%22so+be+brave%22">Rudd</a> (2005 ed.)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">So live bravely, as men<br>
With brave hearts do, and confront the vagaries of fate.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/HoraceSatiresBkIISatII.php#anchor_Toc98154911:~:text=Nature%20makes%20no,vagaries%20of%20fate.">Kline</a> (2015)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Wilcox, Ella Wheeler -- Poem (1892), &#8220;Worth While,&#8221; st.  1, An Erring Woman&#8217;s Love</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is one who will smile, When everything goes dead wrong. Sometimes called &#8220;The Man Worth While.&#8221; Collected again in Poems of Cheer (1910).]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is easy enough to be pleasant,<br />
<span class="tab">When life flows by like a song,<br />
But the man worth while is one who will smile,<br />
<span class="tab">When everything goes dead wrong.</span></span></p>
<br><b>Ella Wheeler Wilcox</b> (1850-1919) American author, poet, temperance advocate, spiritualist<br>Poem (1892), &#8220;Worth While,&#8221; st.  1, <i>An Erring Woman&#8217;s Love</i> 
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Sometimes called "The Man Worth While." Collected again in <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems_of_Cheer/Worth_while#:~:text=It%20is%20easy%20enough%20to%20be%20pleasant%0A%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0When%20life%20flows%20by%20like%20a%20song%2C%0ABut%20the%20man%20worth%20while%20is%20the%20one%20who%20will%20smile%0A%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0When%20everything%20goes%20dead%20wrong.">Poems of Cheer</a></i> (1910).
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		<title>Horace -- Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 10 &#8220;To Aristius Fuscus,&#8221; l.  30ff (1.10.30-31) (20 BC) [tr. Fuchs (1977)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man who gets too happy when prosperity comes trembles when it goes. [Quem res plus nimio delectavere secundae, mutatae quatient.] (Source (Latin)). Other translations: Who so was to much ravished and to much joy did take In flow of wealth, him chaunge of flow yea to much shall yshake. [tr. Drant (1567)] Him, whom [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A man who gets too happy when prosperity comes<br />
trembles when it goes.</p>
<p><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><em>[Quem res plus nimio delectavere secundae,<br />
mutatae quatient.]</em></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<br><b>Horace</b> (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]<br><i>Epistles [Epistularum, Letters]</i>, Book 1, ep. 10 &#8220;To Aristius Fuscus,&#8221; l.  30ff (1.10.30-31) (20 BC) [tr. Fuchs (1977)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/horacessatiresep0000hora/page/62/mode/2up?q=%22gets+too+happy%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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(<a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresepistlesa00horauoft/page/316/mode/2up?q=%22quem+res+plus+nimio%22">Source (Latin)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>Who so was to much ravished and to much joy did take<br>
In flow of wealth, him chaunge of flow yea to much shall yshake.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A03670.0001.001/1:7.9?rgn=div2;view=fulltext#:~:text=Who%20so%20was,much%20shall%20yshake.">Drant</a> (1567)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Him, whom a prosp'rous State did too much please;<br>
Chang'd, it will shake.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=eebo;c=eebo;idno=a44478.0001.001;node=A44478.0001.001:8;seq=1;rgn=div1;view=text#:~:text=Him%2C%20whom%20a,it%20will%20shake.">Fanshawe</a>; ed. Brome (1666)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Those whom the smiles of Fate too much delight,<br>
Their sudden Frowns more shake and more affright.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=eebo;c=eebo;idno=a44471.0001.001;node=A44471.0001.001:8;seq=1;rgn=div1;view=text#:~:text=Those%20whom%20the,and%20more%20affright.">Creech</a> (1684)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>They who in Fortune's smiles too much delight, <br>
Shall tremble when the goddess takes her flight.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresepistlesi00hora/page/200/mode/2up?q=%22They+who+in+Fortune%27s%22">Francis</a> (1747)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Who prizes fortune at too high a rate,<br>
Will shrink with horror at an alter'd state.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epodes_Satires_and_Epistles_of_Horac/TPgDAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22who%20prizes%22">Howes</a> (1845)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>He who has been overjoyed by prosperity, will be shocked by a change of circumstances.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_works_of_Horace/First_Book_of_Epistles#:~:text=He%20who%20has%20been%20overjoyed%20by%20prosperity%2C%20will%20be%20shocked%20by%20a%20change%20of%20circumstances.">Smart/Buckley</a> (1853)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel<br>
The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Satires,_Epistles_%26_Art_of_Poetry_of_Horace/Ep1-10#:~:text=Take%20too%20much%20pleasure%20in%20good%20things%2C%20you%27ll%20feel%0AThe%20shock%20of%20adverse%20fortune%20makes%20you%20reel.">Conington</a> (1874)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Whoe'er hath wildly wantoned in success. <br>
Him will adversity the more depress.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/worksofhorace02horauoft/page/298/mode/2up?q=%22Whoe%27er+hath+wildly%22">Martin</a> (1881)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Him whom prosperity too much elates adversity will shake.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Works_of_Horace/-f8pAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22prosperity%20too%20much%22">Elgood</a> (1893)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>One whom Fortune's smiles have delighted overmuch, will reel under the shock of change.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresepistlesa00horauoft/page/316/mode/2up?q=%22One+whom+Fortune%27s%22">Fairclough</a> (Loeb) (1926)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>One overmuch elated with success <br>
A change of fortune plunges in distress.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/completeworksofh0000casp_g2w3/page/334/mode/2up?q=%22one+overmuch%22">A. F. Murison</a> (1931)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>One whom a favorable turn of events <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">over</span>joys<br>
A change for the worse undermines.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresanndepist0000hora/page/192/mode/2up?q=%22favorable+turn%22">Palmer Bovie</a> (1959)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">If Fortune’s been kind <br>
-- Too kind! -- loss will seem more than loss, will seem <br>
Catastrophe. <br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/essentialhoraceo0000hora/page/214/mode/2up?q=%22been+kind%22">Raffel</a> (1983)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Change will upset the man who's always been lucky.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/epistlesofhorace0000hora/page/48/mode/2up?q=%22change+will+upset%22">Ferry</a> (2001)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Those who are overjoyed when the breeze of luck is behind them <br>
are wrecked when it changes.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresofhoracep00hora/page/92/mode/2up?q=%22overjoyed+when%22">Rudd</a> (2005 ed.)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Those who’ve been quick to enjoy a following wind,<br>
Are wrecked when it veers.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/HoraceEpistlesBkIEpX.php#anchor_Toc98156740:~:text=Those%20who%E2%80%99ve%20been,when%20it%20veers.">Kline</a> (2015)]</blockquote><br>
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		<title>Straczynski, J. Michael "Joe" -- Babylon 5, 3&#215;13 &#8220;A Late Delivery from Avalon&#8221; (22 Apr 1996)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARCUS: You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair; then I thought, &#8216;Wouldn&#8217;t it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happened to us come because we actually deserved them?&#8217; So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MARCUS:  You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair; then I thought, &#8216;Wouldn&#8217;t it be much worse if life <i>were</i> fair, and all the terrible things that happened to us come because we actually deserved them?&#8217;  So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.</p>
<br><b>J. Michael (Joe) Straczynski</b> (b. 1954) American screenwriter, producer, author [a/k/a "JMS"]<br><i>Babylon 5</i>, 3&#215;13 &#8220;A Late Delivery from Avalon&#8221; (22 Apr 1996) 
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		<title>Horace -- Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, #  8 &#8220;Ut Nasidieni,&#8221; l.  73ff (2.8.73-74) (30 BC) [tr. Matthews (2002)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[But like a general, a host displays his genius best under disaster. [Sed convivatoris uti ducis ingenium res Adversae nudare solent, celare secundae.] Balatro speaking somewhat sarcastically to the host, Nasidienus (Rufus), about the misfortunes that are &#8220;ruining&#8221; his dinner party. (Source (Latin)). Alternate translations: But (General-like) Masters of Feasts reveal That temper by cross [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But like a general, a host displays<br />
his genius best under disaster.</p>
<p><em>[Sed convivatoris uti ducis ingenium res<br />
Adversae nudare solent, celare secundae.]</em></p>
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<br><b>Horace</b> (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]<br><i>Satires [Saturae, Sermones]</i>, Book 2, #  8 <i>&#8220;Ut Nasidieni,&#8221;</i> l.  73ff (2.8.73-74) (30 BC) [tr. Matthews (2002)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresofhorace0000hora_r9g5/page/88/mode/2up?q=%22like+a+general%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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Balatro speaking somewhat sarcastically to the host, Nasidienus (Rufus), about the misfortunes that are "ruining" his dinner party.<br><br>

(<a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0062%3Abook%3D2%3Apoem%3D8%3Acard%3D54#:~:text=sed%20convivatoris%2C%20uti%20ducis%2C%20ingenium%20res%0Aadversae%20nudare%20solent%2C%20celare%20secundae.">Source (Latin)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>But (General-like) Masters of Feasts reveal<br>
That temper by cross hits, the good conceal.<br>
[tr. "<a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=eebo;c=eebo;idno=a44478.0001.001;node=A44478.0001.001:7;seq=1;rgn=div1;view=text#:~:text=But%20(General%2Dlike,the%20good%20conceal">I. W. Esq</a>"; ed. Brome (1666)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But as in Captains oft ill chance reveals<br>
The Entertainers Wit, which good conceals.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=eebo;c=eebo;idno=a44471.0001.001;node=A44471.0001.001:7;seq=1;rgn=div1;view=text#:~:text=But%20as%20in,which%20good%20conceals">Creech</a> (1684)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Good fortune hides, adversity calls forth, <br>
A landlord's genius, and a general's worth.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresepistlesi00hora/page/158/mode/2up?q=%22Good+fortune+hides%22">Francis</a> (1747)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But then a host's, like a commander's, skill,<br>
Obscured by good success, shines forth in ill.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epodes_Satires_and_Epistles_of_Horac/TPgDAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22like%20a%20commander%27s%22">Howes</a> (1845)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But adversity is wont to disclose, prosperity to conceal, the abilities of a host as well as of a general.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_works_of_Horace/Second_Book_of_Satires#:~:text=But%20adversity%20is%20wont%20to%20disclose%2C%20prosperity%20to%20conceal%2C%20the%20abilities%20of%20a%20host%20as%20well%20as%20of%20a%20general.">Smart/Buckley</a> (1853)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But yet misfortune will bring forth to view the talents of a host as of a general, as will success conceal the same.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresofhoracei00hora/page/128/mode/2up?q=%22fortune+will+bring%22">Millington</a> (1870)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.<br>
[<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Treasury_of_Thought/09M4AQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22effect%20of%20eliciting%20talents%22">E.g.</a> (1872)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But gifts, concealed by sunshine, are displayed<br>
In hosts, as in commanders, by the shade.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Satires,_Epistles_%26_Art_of_Poetry_of_Horace/Sat2-8#:~:text=But%20gifts%2C%20concealed%20by%20sunshine%2C%20are%20displayed%0AIn%20hosts%2C%20as%20in%20commanders%2C%20by%20the%20shade.">Conington</a> (1874)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But as with a commander, so with a host -- it is rough weather that discovers the genius, fair weather puts it out of sight.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Horace_for_English_Readers/fB8MAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22as%20with%20a%20commander%22">Wickham</a> (1903)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But one who entertains is like a general: mishaps oft reveal his genius, smooth going hides it.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresepistlesa00horauoft/page/244/mode/2up?q=%22one+who+entertains%22">Fairclough</a> (Loeb) (1926)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">But the host plays a role like the general's:<br>
when things go wrong, his genius comes most into play;<br>
When the going is smooth, you'd never know he had any.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresanndepist0000hora/page/152/mode/2up?q=%22but+the+host+plays%22">Palmer Bovie</a> (1959)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But a party-giver's talent, like a general's, comes out<br>
in case of trouble, lies hidden when the going's good.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/horacessatiresep0000hora/page/46/mode/2up?q=%22but+a+party-giver%27s%22">Fuchs</a> (1977)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">But giving a banquet is like fighting a battle:<br>
A general's real talents show when he's losing, not winning in a walk.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/essentialhoraceo0000hora/page/194/mode/2up?q=%22fighting+a+battle%22">Raffel</a> (1983)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But such adversities reveal,<br>
while prosperities conceal, the true qualities<br>
of a host which are like those of a general.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/completeodessati0000hora/page/310/mode/2up?q=%22such+adversities%22">Alexander</a> (1999)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But as with a general so with a host: adverse fortune<br>
has a way of revealing his genius; good fortune obscures it.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresofhoracep00hora/page/72/mode/2up?q=%22as+with+a+general%22">Rudd</a> (2005 ed.)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>But as with a general, so a host: adversity<br>
Often reveals his genius, success conceals it.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/HoraceSatiresBkIISatVIII.php#anchor_Toc98155285:~:text=But%20as%20with,success%20conceals%20it.">Kline</a> (2015)]</blockquote><br>


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