1. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “I am not what I was when dear Cinara was my queen.”

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2. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be a man of merit.”

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3. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.”

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4. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “Nothing is beautiful from every point of view.”

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5. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughed at, than that which he approves and than that which he approves and reveres.”

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6. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.”

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7. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away.”

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8. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “When discord dreadful bursts her brazen bars, And shatters locks to thunder forth her wars.”

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9. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were.”

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10. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; A mistress, if thou knowest not.”

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11. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “To know all things is not permitted.”

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12. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.”

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13. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.”

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14. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.”

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15. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.”

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16. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.”

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17. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “Anger is a short madness.”

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18. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “He who has begun his task has half done it; begin.”

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19. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “Brave men were living before Agamemnon.”

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20. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “I strive to be brief, and become obscure.”

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21. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.”

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22. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief. —Si vis me flere, dolendum est Primum ipsi tibi”

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23. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, 'I have lived.' Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine; he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.”

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24. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.”

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25. Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace - “Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own; He who secure within can say: Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.”

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