Horace

Those that are little, little things suit.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

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

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

I tell you there isn’t a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it’s bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better been left to the men.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Nothing is real.

Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the law rules, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.