Horace

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

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.

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.