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Men Quotes by Horace
- The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
- The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.
- Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.
- Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.
- You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
- Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
- It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
- Life gives nothing to man without labor.
- Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
- To please great men is not the last degree of praise.
- Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names.
- No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
- The covetous man is ever in want.
- Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
- The man is either crazy or he is a poet.
- Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.
- Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for…
- I teach that all men are mad.
- Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.
- Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.
- There are as many preferences as there are men.
- The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.
- An accomplished man to his fingertips.
- Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his…
- The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or…
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