Horace Quotes About Honor

Quotes about: Honor

• Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor.

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  Fall, Honor, Fallen

• 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.

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  Eye, Men, People

• Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe

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  Strong, Freedom, 4th Of July

• Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself;
  Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.

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  Wise, Strong, Freedom

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

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  Honor, Riches, Influence

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

• Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.

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  Wise, Character, Passion

• Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.

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  Honor, Riches, Slave

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