Horace

Poets wish to profit or to please.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion’s roar.

It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

I am stronger than my fear.

Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life … would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments.

Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child’s rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man’s whore.

For too long I have silenced my heart, that now, when I give it the opportunity to speak, it no longer remembers its voice. Locked away, it forgot what it’s like to be free; to roam. Imprisoned within loneliness, I fear Stockholm syndrome has developed.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.

The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.

Life is tough, my darling, but so are you.