Horace Quotes About Praise

Quotes about: Praise

• I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

  Horace

  Wings, Lasts, Poverty

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, Carmina, III. 29, 1922.

• In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

  Horace

  Country, Rome, Sky

• He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.

  Horace

  Boyhood, Praise

• To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

  Horace

  Men, Degrees, Lasts

  "Epistles". I. 17. 35,

• The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.

  Horace

  Wine, Praise, Drunkards

• How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.

  Horace

  Mind, Praise, Greedy

• The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.

  Horace

  Heaven, Doe, Praise

• False praise can please, and calumny affright
  None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.

  Horace

  Hypocrite, Praise, Vicious

• How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot in life which he has chosen, or which chance has thrown in his way, but praises those who follow a different course?
  [Lat., Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo quam sibi sortem,
  Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa
  Contentus vivat? laudet diversa sequentes.]

  Horace

  Doe, Different, Ratios

• I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies.
  [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui
  Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]

  Horace

  Sky, Reign, Praise

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