The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
Horace Quotations
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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
Mix a little foolishness with your prudence It's good to be silly at the right moment.
There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.
Whatever your advice, make it brief.
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
Whatever advice you give, be brief.
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
Seize today, and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Faults are soon copied.
Colleges don't make fools. They only develop them.
With silence favor me.
Friends are treasures.
It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him.
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.
With silence favor me.
(Favete Linguis)
(Favete Linguis)
Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
Be ashamed to die unless you have won some victory for humanity.
It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Dum loquimur invida aetas fugerit. (While we talk, hostile time flies away)
Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.(When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.)
If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
I will not add another word.
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal.
Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - matter is eternal.
Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.
I strive to be brief, and become obscure.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.
Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
There is measure in all things.
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
The covetous man is ever in want.
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin
You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.