Horace

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.

The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans.

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

The money men make lives after them.

In this war, a danger there is, of losing who we are.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness – an open and noble temper.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need – a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.