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

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
- Horace

We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
- Horace

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
- Horace

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
- Horace

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

You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
- Horace

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

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

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.
- Horace

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
- Horace

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
- Horace

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

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
- Horace

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s wall is ablaze.
- Horace

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
- Horace

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
- Horace

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

Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.
- Horace

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man’s gate and at the palaces of kings.
- Horace

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
- Horace

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
- Horace