Horace
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.Collection: Moving
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.Collection: Sad
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.Collection: Work
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.Collection: Death
The pen is the tongue of the mind.Collection: Communication
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.Collection: Future
The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.Collection: Success
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.Collection: Alone
Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.Collection: Anger
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.Collection: Courage
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.Collection: Wisdom
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.Collection: Dad
Don't think, just do.Collection: Motivational
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.Collection: Death
Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.Collection: Trust
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.Collection: Trust
To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.Collection: Fear
Life is largely a matter of expectation.Collection: Life
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.Collection: Travel
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.Collection: Poetry
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.Collection: Experience
A picture is a poem without words.Collection: Art
You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.Collection: Nature
Anger is a short madness.Collection: Anger
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.Collection: Knowledge
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.Collection: Death
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.Collection: Happiness
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.Collection: Life
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.Collection: Anger
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.Collection: Art
He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.Collection: Love
I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.Collection: Distance
Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.Collection: Lowest
What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.Collection: Patience
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.Collection: Inspirational
Be modest in speech, but excel in action.Collection: Speech
Rule your mind or it will rule you.Collection: Inspirational
Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.Collection: Thankful
Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.Collection: Running
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.Collection: Inspirational
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.Collection: Love
Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.Collection: Latin
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.Collection: Inspirational
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.Collection: Wise
A picture is a poem without wordsCollection: Inspirational
In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.Collection: Wise
I teach that all men are mad.Collection: Men
The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.Collection: Fall
What's well begun is half done.Collection: Done
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.Collection: Life