Horace

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

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Those that are little, little things suit.

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent – for every effect a perfect cause – and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

I do not hesitate to read all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable – any real insight or broad human sentiment.

That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and its work that’s become my enemy because that’s what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything.

In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.

Letting go is not giving up.

I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

A wise man makes what he learns his own, the other shows he is but a copy or a collection at most.

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

Duties are not performed for duty’s sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Failure is an important part of your growth and developing resilience. Don’t be afraid to fail.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.