Horace

"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fancies prompted by the multitude."

"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."

"Any man can give up smoking. The real test is never to have started."

"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."

"The swiftness of time is infinite, like the tail of a comet."

"Bear and forbear; this is the motto of the wise."

"Strong in body, weak in resolve."

"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."

"Content with poverty, my soul is rich."

"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment."

"Time flies, we cannot hold its wings."

"The man who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich."

"To be everywhere is to be nowhere."

"I have not written as a man thinks, but as a man acts."

"Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer."

"The greatest spirit is not the one who knows the most, but the one who feels the most."

"A word once let loose can never be caught again."

"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."

"To err is human; to forgive, divine."

"The laws of friendship are austere and eternal."

"Death makes equal the high and low."

"Ambition without learning is like a ship upon dry land."

"Who then is free? Only the one who desires nothing."

"The reward of a man's work is what others are willing to give him for it."

"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary; great minds with the ordinary."

"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

"All things human are subject to decay, and when fate summons, even mountains bow."

"There is a measure in all things."

"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."

"It is better to wear out than to rust out."