Horace

"What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye."

"Anger is a short madness."

"Don't think, just do."

"Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death."

"It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity."

"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."

"Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger."

"Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work."

"Life is largely a matter of expectation."

"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers."

"Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings."

"Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings."

"Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even."

"Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious."

"Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too."

"The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do."

"The pen is the tongue of the mind."

"Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers."

"Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone."

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