Horace - Man Quotes

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The just man having a firm grasp of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the face, will shake in his convictions.

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The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.

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When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
The citizens burning to approve a wrong
Or the frowning looks of a tyrant
Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind.
Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic,
Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove:
Should the heavens crack and tumble down,
As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

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He, that holds fast the golden mean,
And lives contentedly between
The little and the great,
Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door,
Imbitt'ring all his state.

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The more a man denies himself, the more he shall receive from heaven. Naked, I seek the camp of those who covet nothing.
[Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
A dis plura feret. Nil cupientium
Nudus castra peto.]

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Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same.

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To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

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Look round and round the man you recommend, For yours will be the shame should he offend.

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It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

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To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.

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In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.

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Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir.
The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.

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Death takes the mean man with the proud;
The fatal urn has room for all.

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

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Happy the man who far from schemes of business, like the early generations of mankind, works his ancestral acres with oxen of his own breeding, from all usury free.

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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own: he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine, the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

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The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

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He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine."

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That man shall live as his own master and in happiness who can say each day 'I have lived': tomorrow let the Father fill the sky with a black cloud or clear sunshine.

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He who saves a man against his will as good as murders him.

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How comes it, Maecenas, that no man living is content with the lot that either his choice has given him, or chance has thrown in his way, but each has praise for those who follow other paths?

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What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?

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We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

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Happy the man who, far away from business, like the race of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay.

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