Horace

What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.

I beseech you to treasure up in your hearts these my parting words: Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt._x000D_ (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)

In love there are two evils: war and peace.

Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense,_x000D_ The surest guard is innocence: _x000D_ None knew, till guilt created fear, _x000D_ What darts or poisoned arrows were

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with a grateful hand.