Horace

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

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

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

We are free to yield to truth.

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

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

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Practice makes perfect, and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; …they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; …those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last-the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them-and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, …a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.

In charity there is no excess.