Horace

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

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

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

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

The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.