Horace

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one’s country.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

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

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

Some people are stuck on who I was that who I am never even had a chance.

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.

If thou art clean and warm, it is sufficient; for more doth but rob the Poor, and please the Wanton.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.