Descent Quote by Horace Download Open image “Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.” — Horace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Descent Money Noble Seaweed United Wealth
High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed. — Horace Copy Share Image
“Life and history have repeatedly taught us that values and virtues are far much stronger than the physical wealth we often see. For material… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Integrity is more significant than income. Honor is more opulent than fame. Self worth is more affluent than net worth.” — Sravani Saha Nakhro Copy Share Image
The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned if the accession be sudden, and is very… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre. — Sallust Copy Share Image
Wealth is what you take from the world; worth is what you give back. — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame - manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. — Sallust 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
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
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow… — Anonymous Copy Share
Contrary to what certain governments say, human rights are universal. Arbitrary detention, torture and discrimination hurt the human dignity of anybody, whatever his or… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
The sum of all that makes a just man happy Consists in the well choosing of his wife: And there, well to discharge it, does require Equality of years, of birth, of fortune; For beauty being poor, and not cried up By birth or wealth, can truly mix with neither. And wealth, when there's such difference in years, And fair… — Philip Massinger Copy Share
I care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference between them in the hour of battle and of death. — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share
I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Our Lord's descent from the holy heights of the Mount of Transfiguration was more than a physical return from greater to lesser altitudes; it… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Ram, ass, and horse, my Kyrnos, we look over With care, and seek good stock for good to cover; And yet the best men make no argument, But wed, for money, runts of poor descent. So too a woman will demean her state And spurn the better for the richer mate. Money's the cry. Good stock to bad is wed… — Theognis of Megara Copy Share
Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity depends on… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
I'm so alive. As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afternoon breeze blows down from the hills behind. As always, it is a beautiful day. The sun is making its final descent. The magic is about to begin. The skies are ready to burn with brilliance, as it turns from a soft blue to… — Dave Pelzer Copy Share
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