Horace Quotes

In Brazil, a poor man goes to jail when he steals. When a rich man steals, he becomes a minister.

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

I see no reason why big-shot crooks should go free while the poor ones go to jail.

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.

Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose; while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose, especially their lives.

Laws grind the poor and rich men rule the law.

Oh wearisome condition of humanity—born under one law, to another bound.

The Court is corrupt: The fields are overgrown with weeds; the granaries are empty. Yet there are those dressed in fineries, With swords at their sides: Filled with food and drink, Possessed of too much wealth. This is called "Taking the lead in robbery.

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing

Ask of politicians the end for which laws were originally designed, and they will answer that the laws were designed as a protection for the poor and weak against the oppression of the rich and powerful. But surely no pretense can be so ridiculous