Horace

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

How we glow over these novels of passion, when the story is told with any spark of truth and nature! And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before and never shall meet them again. But we see them exchange a glance or betray a deep emotion, and we are no longer strangers. We understand them and take the warmest interest in the development of the romance. All mankind love a lover.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

It is necessary to hope… for hope itself is happiness.

A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

Nothing does Reason more Right, than the Coolness of those that offer it: for Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

I teach that all men are mad.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

Your mind will enchain you. Your heart will set you free.