Horace

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don’t labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while… you don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

One can resist the invasion of an army, but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

The eye is the jewel of the body.

I will not say do not weep, for not all tears are evil.

So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

A verse from the Veda says, ‘What you see, you become.’ In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos; trees, clouds, everything.