Favors Quote by Horace Download Open image “Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.” — Horace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Favors Fool Fortune Too much Wealth
Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop. — John Webster Copy Share Image
Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us. — Vincent Voiture Copy Share Image
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice. — Sallust Copy Share Image
They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us… — Horace Copy Share Image
“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)” — Horace Copy Share Image
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace Copy Share Image
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share Image
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing to die for ones country. — Horace Copy Share Image
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments. — Horace Copy Share Image
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted… — Horace Copy Share Image
“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.” — Horace Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Get rid of the idea that God wants you to sacrifice yourself for others, and that you can secure his favor by doing so;… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
God has often given His people favor in the sight of heathen masters (as Joseph and Daniel), and has magnified the sufficiency of His… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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