Horace

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

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

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

In the word of no master am I bound to believe.

It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild’ is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

In heaven an angel is no one in particular.

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

For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.

At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

Covetousness is the greatest of monsters, as well as the root of all evil.

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will