Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.
Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.
Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life’s ledger whatever time fate shall have granted thee.
God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.
Live mindful of how brief your life is.
Better to accept whatever happens.
It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.
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.