Horace (65 BC-8 BC)

Quintus Horatius Flaccus, commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."

Quotes

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

Poetry
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.

Poverty
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money.

Money
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
The covetous man is ever in want.
Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
I will not add another word.
Faults are soon copied.
The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
With silence favor me.
(Favete Linguis)

Silence
There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.
Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.