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Best Men Quotes by Horace
- Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
- That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead.
- What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
- For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.
- All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.
- Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.
- Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.
- Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand…
- To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.
- Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.
- That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun…
- We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
- Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.
- Men cease to think when they think they know it all.
- He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any…
- If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too…
- True friends appear less mov'd than counterfeit; As men that grieve at funerals are not so loud as those that cry for hire
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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