Horace

Quote link.: "Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
Quote link.: "Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.(When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: die day: "Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat., Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day: "Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day: "Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk time: "Dum loquimur invida aetas fugerit. (While we talk, hostile time flies away)"
Quote link.: "Faults are soon copied."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wisdom: "Force without wisdom falls of its own weight."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happy live man today alone: "Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own He who secure within can say Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today."
Quote link.: "He has the deed half done who has made a beginning."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happy old men: "He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wise: "He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin"
Quote link. Other quotes about: right living run: "He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live little: "He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little."
Quote link.: "He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first wish: "If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind: "In adversity remember to keep an even mind."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope hours day look: "In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon."
Quote link.: "I strive to be brief, and become obscure."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death die happy god friend man father worse wisdom fear friends rich hard: "It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland."
Quote link.: "It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure."
Quote link.: "I will not add another word."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work nothing hard: "Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work."
Quote link. Other quotes about: money: "Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live men: "Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wisdom: "Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right little good: "Mix a little foolishness with your prudence It's good to be silly at the right moment."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them as they go, they take many away.)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: never nature: "Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. (You may drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.)"
Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking think wise: "Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking."
Quote link.: "Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death men: "Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death man: "Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings."
Quote link. Other quotes about: light: "Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life mind: "Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little today: "Seize today, and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong right: "The appearance of right oft leads us wrong."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "The covetous man is ever in want."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find right rest: "There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place."
Quote link.: "There is measure in all things."
Quote link.: "The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day look: "Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wisdom: "To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man life: "To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find happy live world life: "We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest."
Quote link.: "Whatever your advice, make it brief."
Quote link.: "Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace."
Quote link. Other quotes about: silence: "With silence favor me."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die live love: "With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time: "You have played enough you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness world man mind: "You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all."