Horace

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

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

Leave the rest to the gods.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Fierce eagles do not produce timorous doves.

O imitators, you slavish herd!

Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand — relax!

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

There is always a best way of doing everything.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

It is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist the parachute.

You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

Necessity does everything well.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.

Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est (Knowledge Itself Is Power)