Horace

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

If a man’s fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

There is nothing assured to mortals.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.