1                   You will have more properly, Licinius, neither by pushing into the deep nor by—while you tremble on your at the storms—pressing too closely to the uneven shore.

5                   Whoever loves the golden mean safe, lacks the squalor of the shabby house, he also lacks the moderate house to be envied.

9                   More often the massive pine is agitated by the winds and the lofty towers fall more heavy by misfortune and more often flashes of lightning falls upon the highest mountains.

13             The well-prepared for another lot heart hopes in insecure times, it fears in favorable times another share Jupiter brings back the ugly winters the same

17             banishes them if it is now bad it will not be thus at some future date: sometimes Apollo wakens the silent Muse with the lyre, he does not always shoot the bows.

21             Appear strong and full of spirit/brave in difficult times: wisely at the same time you will draw together the sails swollen by favorable winds.