“Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.”
Sad
“Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it a mistress, if thou knowest not.”
MoneyAll Quotes by Horace
“To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.”
Fear“It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.”
Business“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.”
Death“Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.”
Future“The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.”
Anger“We are free to yield to truth.”
Truth“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.”
Travel“A picture is a poem without words.”
Art“The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.”
Success“The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.”
Power“You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.”
Nature“Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it a mistress, if thou knowest not.”
Money“He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.”
Death“Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.”
Education“Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.”
Death“Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.”
Anger“Life is largely a matter of expectation.”
Life“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.”
Art“It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.”
Courage