Horace, BC 65-8, Italian Poet Quotes
We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
The power of daring anything their fancy suggests, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.
Does he council you better who bids you, "Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?
Rule your mind, or it will rule you.
A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.
He has not lived badly whose birth and death have been unnoticed by the world.
He is armed without who is innocent within; be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
And may I live the remainder of my life... For myself; may there be plenty of books and many years' store of the fruits of the earth!