Music is an incitement to love.
Leave the rest to the gods.
This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.
It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.
What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature’s bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?
The man who thinks with Horace thinks divine.
Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you’ll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.
In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.
It is difficult to speak of the universal specifically.
Small things become small folks.
No one is content with his own lot.
Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow’s span to this day’s sum?
Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.
Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.
The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.
Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.
The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.
Consider well what your strength is equal to, and what exceeds your ability.
What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.
Most virtue lies between two vices.