Horace

When we drink, we feel like laughing at the poor, and when we are rich, we feel like laughing at the poor.

The story's at the bottom of this glass.

He who has learned to hate an ingratitude has not yet learned to love.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one up.

As crazy as hauling timber into the woods.

It's a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles.

The limbs of the tormented.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.

Why do you hasten to remove things that will be dearly written on your age?

The more a man cultivates the arts, the less he inclines to wage war.

I have made a monument more lasting than bronze.

What slender youth, bedewed with liquid odors.

Now is the time for drinking, now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.

Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the next.

It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love.

I am not as I was when good Cinara was my queen.

The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.