Horace

Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.

Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Leave the rest to the gods.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

Things do not change; we change.

Society is a hospital of incurables.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Every great movement must experience three stages ridicule, discussion, adoption.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

Reading Proust isn’t just reading a book, it’s an experience and you can’t reject an experience.

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one’s own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.