Who is Horace the Philosopher

"He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!"

"He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses."

"Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work."

"Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!"
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]

"The covetous man is ever in want."

"He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little."

"He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure."

"Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment."

"Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even."

"The appearance of right oft leads us wrong."

"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."

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

"There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place."

"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled."

"Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise."

"The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another."

"There is measure in all things."

"If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself."

"To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom."

"With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die."

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

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

"Force without wisdom falls of its own weight."

"In adversity remember to keep an even mind."

"We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest."

"Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking."

"Faults are soon copied."

"With silence favor me." (Favete Linguis)

"It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure."

"I will not add another word."

"Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money."

"Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet."