Horace

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Anger is short madness

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Virtue is too often merely local.

For we put the power in the people.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: “I’m with you kid. Let’s go.”

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.