Horace

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar – that I call an achievement.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

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.

When you know better you do better.

All say, How hard it is that we have to die – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Don’t call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it’s not sexist.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

I am the flame, electric blue, lightening, razor-like, renewing my spirit. Heart beating in time to the earth’s rhythm and expanse of black ink sky, overreaching eternal. My fingertips spark with seeds of creation, fireworks coloring canvas, beckoned by this light that lifts me.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there’s always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!

Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.