Quintus Horatius Flaccus, , known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.
More on Wikipedia…
(497 quotes found)
“If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both”
Horace Mann
“Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.”
“Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.”
Horace
“Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.”
“Subdue your passion or it will subdue you”
“It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.”
“Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery.”
“Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.”
Horace Walpole
“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”
“Rule your mind or it will rule you”