Horace

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.

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

I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.

All Excess is ill: But Drunkenness is of the worst Sort. It spoils Health, dismounts the Mind, and unmans Men: It reveals Secrets, is Quarrelsome, Lascivious, Impudent, Dangerous and Mad. In fine, he that is drunk is not a Man: Because he is so long void of Reason, that distinguishes a Man from a Beast.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Blame is safer than praise.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.

Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

Earth laughs in flowers.

The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.