Horace

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: -in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will

Once we recognize that all things are impermanent, we have no problem enjoying them.

If you weren’t such a great man, you’d be a terrible bore.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption –pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism.