About Horace: Quintus Horatius Flaccus is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret (Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, she'll come right back)
Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium
Natales grate numeras? (Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?)
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
Anger is a short madness.
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
A picture is a poem without words.
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis. (Whatever advice you give, be brief.)
Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit. (What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)
Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. (Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.)
Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat. (Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.)
Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. ( )
Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, and whatever days fortune will give, count them as profit.
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
