Horace

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

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 lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

Be confident, not certain

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Principles aren’t of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Your mind makes a cruel master, but a generous servant.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.