Horace

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course?

There is nothing assured to mortals.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker upon the planet. Then all things are at risk.

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.

Men’s men: gentle or simple, they’re much of a muchness.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg…

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Mysteries are due to secrecy.

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.