Horace

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

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

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Fierce eagles do not produce timorous doves.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

Dear to us are those who love us… but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.

This is the comfort of the godly: the grave cannot hold them, and they live as soon as they die. For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

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

Once you truly understand that it is okay to lose or fail, you are free, you have nothing to fear, and only then, can nothing in this world hold you back.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t walk run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the book-worm.

The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.