Horace

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

A picture is a poem without words.

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they’re yours.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

For so many people, TV and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them. It becomes important for the world to see different images of each other, so that we can develop empathy and understanding.

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other’s hopes. They are kind to each other’s dreams.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Which is worse? The wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.