Horace

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

Leave the rest to the gods.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she’ll be constantly running back.

I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

Friends are thieves of time.

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

If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man’s self. The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains, and it is sometimes base; and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

We must not inquire too curiously into motives… They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.