Horace

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

Thought makes every thing fit for use.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights.

What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?