Men Quotes by Horace

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

— Horace

There are as many preferences as there are men.

— Horace

An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.

— Horace

The covetous man is ever in want.

— Horace

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

— Horace

It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.

— Horace

All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

— Horace

The man who thinks with Horace thinks divine.

— Horace

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

— Horace

What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?

— Horace

Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

— Horace

The more a man denies himself, the more shall he obtain from God.

— Horace

Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

— Horace

Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, Nor men the weak anxieties of age.

— Horace

The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

— Horace

Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.

— Horace

The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet…

— Horace

The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of…

— Horace

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear…

— Horace

Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even…

— Horace

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

— Horace

A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion…

— Horace

Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. [Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis Cautum est in…

— Horace

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they…

— Horace

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do…

— Horace

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings…

— Horace

When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of…

— Horace

Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.

— Horace

There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.

— Horace

An accomplished man to his fingertips.

— Horace

Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.

— Horace

A man of refined taste and judgment.

— Horace

I teach that all men are mad.

— Horace

A man perfect to the finger tips.

— Horace

No man is born without faults.

— Horace

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

— Horace

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

— Horace

A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

— Horace

All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.

— Horace

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

— Horace