Horace

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

Anger is short madness

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

I was brought up to hate and fear liberty. I came to love it. That is the secret of my whole career.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

Virtue is too often merely local.

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

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

Man – a creature made at the end of the week’s work when God was tired.

It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge.