Horace

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start

Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.

The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.

Nos numeros sumus et fruges consumere nati. We are but ciphers, born to consume earth's fruits.

He's arm'd without that's innocent within; _x000D_ Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.

It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.

Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.

You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

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 have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

I court not the votes of the fickle mob.

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

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

What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?

The covetous man is ever in want.

They change their skies, _x000D_ but not their souls _x000D_ who run across the sea.