Horace Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• 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.

  Horace

  Men, Tyrants, Citizens

  "Carmina (Odes)". Book by Jorace (Book III, Ode III, line 1), 23 BC.

• A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

  Horace

  Pride, Vices, Purpose

• Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

  Horace

  Mind, Purpose, Literature

• 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.

  Horace

  Men, Hands, Tyrants

  Horace, Joseph P. Clancy (1960). “Odes and Epodes”, p.108, University of Chicago Press

• The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

  Horace

  Courage, Men, Citizens

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 142-44, Carmina, III. 3. 1, 1922.

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