Horace Quotes

The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues.

Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

Men become old, but they never become good.

I just want to be as good a person as I can be.

Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.

Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good.

The ideal of character always runs beyond the attainment.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions.

Praise makes good men better and bad men worse.

Folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

It is by doing good that we become good.

… the field of action is not the field of intellect, it is the field of character; and change or development of character is always slow work.

You can't be all bad all the time.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

Good people struggle against what's imperfect about them. The people that we call 'bad' people embrace that kind of stuff, embrace the darker side.

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.

Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.

By doing good we become good.

In order for good to blossom it must be cultivated and exercised by constant practice, and to be truly righteous there is required a daily pruning of the evil growth of our characters by a daily repen- tance from sin.

Let thy vices die before thee.