Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.
Gold will be slave or master.
All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.
With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt Rule your mind or it will rule you.
I court not the votes of the fickle mob.
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one’s country.
Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes.
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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.
Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.
Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.
Believe it, future generations.
I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.
The things, that are repeated again and again, are pleasant.