Horace Quotes About Fame

Quotes about: Fame

• The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.

  Horace

  Eye, Men, People

• A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.

  Horace

  Money, Men, Wife

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.365, Delphi Classics

• For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

  Horace

  Honor, Riches, Influence

  "Satires", II. 3. 94, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 864-67, 1922.

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