Horace

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

The surest poison is time.

It takes two to speak truth – one to speak, and another to hear.

Where God does not govern, tyrants will rule.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there’s nothing but fear and insecurity.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

It’s your life-but only if you make it so.

Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

Live, let live, and help live

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.