Horace

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

Clogged with yesterday’s excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.

How you gonna win if you ain’t right within?

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

All say, How hard it is that we have to die – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter; and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits, which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

Hate has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet.

Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.