Horace

I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

Every old poem is sacred.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Justice though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

In the word of no master am I bound to believe.

Live, let live, and help live

You’ve got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you’re gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn’t work that way.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Dharma is what the Buddha taught. It is the way of understanding and love-how to understand, how to love, how to make understanding and love into real things.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

Every other enjoyment malice may destroy; every other panegyric envy may withhold; but no human power can deprive the boaster of his own encomiums.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener is necessary to the accommodation of all those who desire to be confirmed in the opinion of their own wisdom: a patient listener, however, is not always to be had; the present age, whatever age is present, is so vitiated and disordered, that young people are readier to talk than to attend, and good counsel is only thrown away upon those who are full of their own perfections.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.