Men Quotes by Horace · Page 2

The covetous man is ever in want.

— Horace

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

— Horace

The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]

— Horace

The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.]

— Horace

What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

— Horace

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a…

— Horace

When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.

— Horace

No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

— Horace

As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.

— Horace

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

— Horace

The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor…

— Horace

Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to…

— Horace

You will not rightly call him a happy man who possesses much; he more rightly earns the name of happy who is…

— Horace

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere…

— Horace

Happy the man who, removed from all cares of business, after the manner of his forefathers cultivates with his own team his…

— Horace

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

— Horace

Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut…

— Horace

He, that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch…

— Horace

Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.

— Horace

No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

— Horace

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

— Horace

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

— Horace

The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.

— Horace

A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]

— Horace

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

— Horace

Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

— Horace

Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: That ample urn holds all men's names.

— Horace

He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— 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

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

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

— Horace

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

— Horace

To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him…

— Horace

Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself; Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to…

— Horace

Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those…

— Horace