Horace

What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.

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

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.

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

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, neverin nothing, great or small, large or pettynever give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.