"Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved,……" — Horace
"Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person"
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499 Quotes by Horace
Horace has 499 quotes on this site.
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy…
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Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness…
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Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not…
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A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
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The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
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Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives…
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It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
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Force without judgement falls on its own weight.
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I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
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Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals: we storm heaven itself in our folly.
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Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
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More Modest Quotes
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All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was…
— Paul Auster
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I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax…
— Michele Bachmann
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Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be…
— Russell Baker
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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
— Max Beerbohm
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To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that…
— David Bowie
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Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
— Lakhdar Brahimi
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Is the raggle-taggle Brangelina tribe any more bogus than that of the landlocked yummy mummy who believes that she can…
— Julie Burchill
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The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.
— David Byrne
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
— Abraham Cahan
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It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
— Paul Cezanne
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Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
— Winston Churchill
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