Horace

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

There is nothing assured to mortals.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money?

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.

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

Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.

The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn’t need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder – in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

If we had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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 beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler’s cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.