Horace

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s house is in flames.

Fierce eagles do not produce timorous doves.

Tear thyself from delay.

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s wall is ablaze.

Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.

Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual.

As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.

The serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

What if… everything you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for?