id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt horace-works_48 horace-works_48 .txt text/plain 180 11 83 ODE X. TO LICINIUS MURENA O Licinius, you will lead a more correct course of life, by neither always pursuing the main ocean, nor, while you cautiously are in dread of storms, by pressing too much upon the hazardous shore. Whosoever loves the golden mean, is secure from the sordidness of an antiquated cell, and is too prudent to have a palace that might expose him to envy, if the lofty pine is more frequently agitated with winds, and high towers fall down with a heavier ruin, and lightnings strike the summits of the mountains. A wellprovided breast hopes in adversity, and fears in prosperity.' Tis the same Jupiter, that brings the hideous winters back, and that takes them away. In narrow circumstances appear in high spirits, and undaunted. In the same manner you will prudently contract your sails, which are apt to be too much swollen in a prosperous gale. ./cache/horace-works_48.txt ./txt/horace-works_48.txt