Horace

You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

Make a good use of the present.

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one’s country.

What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.

I teach that all men are mad.

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

Beauty without expression is boring.

You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

The surest poison is time.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Reality is a sliding door.