Horace

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

It’s a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

Justice though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Between his consciousness and events stood always that impenetrable medium – indifference.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods loved him because men hated him.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don’t know anything and can’t read.

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

Suspicion is most often useless pain.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.