Horace

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.

Anger makes dull men witty – but it keeps them poor.

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

A great man is always willing to be little.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

It is proved…that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

Why is that others have so much faith in me, while I have so little? Why can’t I have the same belief in me that they have? Why can’t I see in myself, what they do? What is it that makes me, hold myself back? How many more hurdles do I need to overcome? There are so many questions that I have to find the answers to. And I will only find them by focusing and being completely honest with myself.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?… What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast Shakespeare.

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.