Horace

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

I teach that all men are mad.

The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Leave the rest to the gods.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

The most beautiful woman is the one who is never divulging, she knows what she is and everything else is worth her.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Half a man’s wisdom goes with his courage.

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 a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people to protect themselves from talented people…

Silence is the virtue of fools.

The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.

Events tend to recur in cycles.

Who’s not sat tense before his own heart’s curtain.

The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it… Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.