Horace

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

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

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

It’s a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

I am the captain of my soul.

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.

In the end, people will judge you anyway, so don’t live our life impressing other – live your life impressing yourself.

Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

Sense never fails to give them that have it, Words enough to make them understood. It too often happens in some conversations, as in Apothecary Shops, that those Pots that are Empty, or have Things of small Value in them, are as gaudily Dress’d as those that are full of precious Drugs. They that soar too high, often fall hard, making a low and level Dwelling preferable. The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. Buildings have need of a good Foundation, that lie so much exposed to the Weather.

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

By indignities men come to dignities.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

We are all alike, on the inside.

The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.