Quote

When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.

Horace

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Horace
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Q. Horatius Flaccus
Horatius
Horatius Flaccus
Men
Dissatisfied
Pleased
Courses
Course
Others
Matter

More quotes by Horace

Image
Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.
Horace
Image
I am doubting what to do.
Horace
Image
Labor diligently to increase your property.
Horace
Image
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
Horace
Image
Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.
Horace
Image
Wisdom at times is found in folly.
Horace
Image
Now is the time for drinking now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.
Horace
Image
Whatever your advice, make it brief.
Horace
Image
No man is born without faults.
Horace
Image
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
Horace
Image
Virtue consists in fleeing vice.
Horace
Image
We are free to yield to truth.
Horace
Image
I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.
Horace
Image
Punishment follows close on crime.
Horace
Image
Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.
Horace
Image
Think to yourself that every day is your last the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
Horace
Image
Damnosa quid non imminuit dies? What does not destructive time destroy?
Horace
Image
They change their skies, but not their souls who run across the sea.
Horace
Image
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
Horace
Image
Tear thyself from delay.
Horace