Horace

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one’s country.

Remember, when life’s path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

Anger is short madness

Gold will be slave or master.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

I often think that men don’t understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity to act despite our fears.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

I do not say that I’ll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive.

As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.