Disgrace Quote by Horace Download Open image “The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.” — Horace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disgrace Keeps Minds Often Others Psychology Shame Tender Vice
As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often… — Horace Copy Share Image
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice! — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice. — Dominique Bouhours Copy Share Image
We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority. — Horace 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
We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan,… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living… — Plato Copy Share Image
