Horace

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

There is nothing assured to mortals.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.

You don’t learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

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

During my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake.

The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.

The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Dharma is what the Buddha taught. It is the way of understanding and love-how to understand, how to love, how to make understanding and love into real things.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

The amount of people in this world who are here to do something great far outweighs the rest.