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Famous Horace Quotes
“What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?”
“No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.”
“Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.”
“Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.”
“The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.”
“The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.”
“Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.”
“Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.”
“It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.”
“Even-handed fate Hath but one law for small and great: That ample urn holds all men's names.”
“The covetous man is ever in want.”
“Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.”
“There are as many preferences as there are men.”
“The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.”
“Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.”