Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.
Horace
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Horace
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Horace
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
Horace
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
Horace
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
Horace
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation
Horace