Horace

“Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.”

“Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.”

“Riches either serve or govern the possessor.”

“Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)”

“Rule your mind or it will rule you.”

“Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.”

“he who is greedy is always in want”

“Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine the joys I...”

“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, an...”

“Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?”

“Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a r...”

“He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.”

“A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.”

“He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.”

“Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.”

“Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.”

“A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.”

“It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.”

“Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.”

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