Horace

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Tear thyself from delay.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them.

You don’t learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

It’s like something shifted when I spoke to you, I can’t even put words to it. This sense of gentle peace, space, lightness, freedom. The realization that the longing I carried for so long, that pain was not about him all along. It was the yearning to return to that place from which, once upon a time, we all came.

When one wanted one’s interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people’s tricks.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until they are in hot water.

By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.

Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?

Coercion is evil precisely because it…eliminates an individual as a thinking and valuing person and makes him a bare tool in the achievement of the ends of another.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

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.