Horace

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Those that are little, little things suit.

We are free to yield to truth.

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Every old poem is sacred.

It’s your life-but only if you make it so.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate.

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

Out of the huts of history’s shame I rise Up from a past that’s rooted in pain I rise I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

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.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.