Horace

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

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

How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.

Seize today and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.

The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

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