Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money. Horace, Epistles Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. Horace, Epistles Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland. Horace, Odes Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet. Horace, Odes Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die. Horace, Odes Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. Horace, Odes Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. Horace, Odes Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats. Malayan Proverb In adversity remember to keep an even mind. Horace, Odes Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!<br>[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.] Horace, Odes Roman lyric poet & satirist (65 BC - 8 BC) |