"While fools shun one set of faults they……" — Horace
"While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one."
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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 Faults Quotes
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
— Teresa of Avila
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing…
— Teresa of Avila
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults.…
— Teresa of Avila
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If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always…
— Richard Bach
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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that…
— James Truslow Adams
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
— Samuel Beckett
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
— Samuel Beckett
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in…
— Kristen Bell
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What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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