Horace

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Whatever advice you give, be short.

The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

The natural law of inertia: Matter will remain at rest or continue in uniform motion in the same straight line unless acted upon by some external force.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Life too near paralyses art.

If you are good, life is good.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.

It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Who prays for Satan? Who, in 1,800 years, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

How you gonna win if you ain’t right within?