Horace

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

Fierce eagles do not produce timorous doves.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

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

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words – 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man – the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

It is all right to rat, but you can’t re-rat.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Ahh, that mountain of self-discovery. Every time you have reached the summit, the clouds clear and you see there is still a ways to go. Don’t look up with thoughts of despair; thinking how much further do I have to go?! Take a moment and look back to see how far you have come. Don’t lose sight of your accomplishments, and focus on the continued commitment to self-discovery and development.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. ‘Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.