Horace

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

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

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

Poets wish to profit or to please.

When a man is just and firm in his purpose, the citizens burning to approve a wrong or the frowning looks of a tyrant. Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, as the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

We do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P’s – pay, perks, power and prestige – rather than making profits for shareholders.

No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.

Mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the part that was good was not original.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?