Horace

One night awaits all, and death’s path must be trodden once and for all.

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

Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.

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

If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while… you don’t do things right once in a while… you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

The desire of advising has a very extensive prevalence; and, since advice cannot be given but to those that will hear it, a patient listener is necessary to the accommodation of all those who desire to be confirmed in the opinion of their own wisdom: a patient listener, however, is not always to be had; the present age, whatever age is present, is so vitiated and disordered, that young people are readier to talk than to attend, and good counsel is only thrown away upon those who are full of their own perfections.

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

An index is a great leveller.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.

We must not inquire too curiously into motives… They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Haste makes Work which Caution prevents.