Horace

Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.

Tear thyself from delay.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Sometimes if I see negative things it really doesn’t faze me, because you’ve got to be tough and you’ve got to be you.

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

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

If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.

He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

Nature has always had more force than education.