Horace

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

Gold will be slave or master.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s house is in flames.

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

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

You’ve got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you’re gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn’t work that way.

It’s not the adversity, but how you face it.

Language is the archives of history.

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s wall is ablaze.

The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.

Was there ever such an autumn? And yet there was never such a panic and hard times in the commercial world. The merchants and banks are suspending and failing all the country over, but not the sandbanks, solid and warm, and streaked with bloody blackberry vines.You may run upon them as much as you please – even as the crickets do, and find their account in it. They are the stockholders in these banks, and I hear them creaking their content.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.