Horace

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

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

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Bravery is more important than perfection.- Kanye West

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Wake up, lift your head, open your eyes, and dream. Gaze softly into your heart’s whispers. Notice the pull of your belly and that which makes you come alive. Let your soul speak, beckoning you to embark on that one voyage you can no longer let lie.

Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.