Horace

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

Labor diligently to increase your property.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar – that I call an achievement.

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

Make a good use of the present.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.

He who has never hoped can never despair.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that’s just a fact.

It is only through labour and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage; that we move on to better things.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past and not enough presence.

We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected