Quintus Horatius Flaccus, , known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.
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“Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.”
Horace
“Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.”
“Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.”
“Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were”
“A house without books is like room without windows”
Horace Mann
“Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.”
“Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge”
“Observation - activity of both eyes and ears”
“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.”
“Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.”