Horace

Leave the rest to the gods.

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

If you don’t like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.

Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

The amount of people in this world who are here to do something great far outweighs the rest.

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Pity is for living, envy is for dead.