Horace

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

A wise man makes what he learns his own, the other shows he is but a copy or a collection at most.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

Give, even if you only have little.

How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course?

You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

The city is recruited from the country.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.