Horace

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

Leave the rest to the gods.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Every one is a genius, more or less. No one is so physically sound that no part of him will be even a little unsound, and no one is so diseased but that some part of him will be healthy — so no man is so mentally and morally sound, but that he will be in part both mad and wicked; and no man is so mad and wicked but he will be sensible and honourable in part. In like manner there is no genius who is not also a fool, and no fool who is not also a genius.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

Don’t order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don’t know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

The sky was the color of hard crimson, dripping down a canvas, the moon splashed silver across red. Her soothing balm healing my soul in swathes of calmness, I breathe in her tides and let my body be washed ashore, lying in the sands of eternity.

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

Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.