Horace

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s wall is ablaze.

Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

I’ve learned that from my husband, that sort of, you know, ability to not get too high or too low with changes and bumps in the road.

Never read any book that is not a year old.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.