Horace

"Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings."

"The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour."

"It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while."

"Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself."

"Fidelity is the sister of justice."

"That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided."

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

"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not."

"What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed?"

"In labouring to be concise, I become obscure."

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

"Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least."

"The mountains will be in labour, and a ridiculous mouse will be born." - Ars Poetica

"Sometimes even excellent Homer nods." - Ars Poetica

"Whatever advice you give, be brief." - Ars Poetica

"I struggle to be brief, and I become obscure." - Ars Poetica

"To have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise." - Epistles

"Many brave men lived before Agamemnon, but all are weighed down in unending night, unwept and unknown, because they lacked a sacred bard." - Odes

"Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals; we storm heaven itself in our folly." - Odes

"In Rome you long for the country; in the country - oh inconstant! -you praise the distant city to the stars." - Satires