Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Horace
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Q. Horatius Flaccus
Horatius
Horatius Flaccus
Men
Fellow
Tenacious
Firm
Shaken
Fellows
Frenzy
Citizens
Tyrant
Cause
Countenance
Causes
Threatening
Wrong
Tyrants
Clamoring
Purpose
Resolve
Rightful
More quotes by Horace
When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.
Horace
An envious man grows lean at another's fatness.
Horace
Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.
Horace
A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]
Horace
All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.
Horace
An accomplished man to his fingertips.
Horace
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
Horace
He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
Horace
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
Horace
Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.
Horace
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
Horace
Here, or nowhere, is the thing we seek.
Horace
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
Horace
There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.
Horace
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
Horace
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
Horace
As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.
Horace
Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.
Horace
Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.
Horace
It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?
Horace
