Horace Quotes About Virtue
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Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
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Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]
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Most virtue lies between two vices.
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If virtue holds the secret, don't defer; Be off with pleasure, and be on with her.
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Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
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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.]
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Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.
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Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.
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Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]
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Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were
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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.
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O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.
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Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?
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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.]
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There is a mean in all things; even virtue itself has stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.
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Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.
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We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it. [Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus, Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus.]
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Get money first; virtue comes after.
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How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
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For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.
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Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.
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The good refrain from sin from the pure love of virtue.
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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.
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Virtue consists in fleeing vice.
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The good hate sin because they love virtue. [Lat., Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore.]
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I wrap myself up in virtue. [Lat., Mea virtute me involvo.]
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The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.
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It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
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