Horace

Anger is short madness

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Pity the man who has a character to support – it is worse than a large family – he is silent poor indeed.

Things do not change; we change.

Travel is a fools paradise.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.

Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need – a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.