Horace Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.

  Horace

  Arms, Study, Virtue

  Horace (1770). “The Works of Horace, ...: In Two Volumes”, p.233

• Get money first; virtue comes after.

  Horace

  Money, Firsts, Get Money

• Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue.
  [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]

  Horace

  Gold, Silver, Virtue

• The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

  Horace

  Family, Parent, Dowry

• How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!

  Horace

  Littles, Virtue, Economy

• Virtue consists in fleeing vice.

  Horace

  Vices, Fleeing, Virtue

• Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

  Horace

  Gold, Silver, Virtue

• Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom.
  [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

  Horace

  Vices, Virtue, Avoiding

• 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.

• The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.

  Horace

  Sin, Virtue, Refrain

• It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Teenager, Men

• If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.

  Horace

  Secret, Virtue, Pleasure

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.364, Delphi Classics

• Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

  Horace

  Lying, Two, Opposites

• The good hate sin because they love virtue.
  [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]

  Horace

  Hate, Sin, Virtue

• Most virtue lies between two vices.

  Horace

  Lying, Two, Vices

• Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense,
  The surest guard is innocence:
  None knew, till guilt created fear,
  What darts or poisoned arrows were

  Horace

  Arrows, Guilt, Needs

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

  Horace

  Honor, Riches, Slave

• Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze.
  [Lat., Virtus repulse nescia sordidae,
  Intaminatis fulget honoribus;
  Nec sumit aut ponit secures
  Arbitrio popularis aurae.]

  Horace

  Knowing, Shining, Doe

• Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

  Horace

  Suffering, May, Poverty

• 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.

• Virtue, opening heaven to those who do not deserve to die, makes her course by paths untried.
  [Lat., Virtus, recludens immeritis mori
  Coelum, negata tentat iter via.]

  Horace

  Heaven, Path, Virtue

• O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

  Horace

  Practice, Citizens, Firsts

• Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.

  Horace

  Men, Sage, May

• Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth.
  [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]

  Horace

  Money, Firsts, Wealth

• We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it.
  [Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus,
  Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus.]

  Horace

  Hate, Sight, Safe

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