Horace

If a man’s fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money?

Tear thyself from delay.

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

Remember, when life’s path is steep, to keep your mind even.

When a man is just and firm in his purpose, the citizens burning to approve a wrong or the frowning looks of a tyrant. Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, as the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.

If you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list.

How earthy old people become moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

You bring out the be(a)st in me. Polarized tension, a raw slash of claw, swathed softly in love. A peace of my mind in tumultuous chaotic razor-sharp clarity, impulsive wit to wisdom, mixing addictive shots of cocktail emotions in a full-spectrum experience.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Half a man’s wisdom goes with his courage.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.