A Quote by Horace
Change generally pleases the rich.
[Lat., Plerumque gratae divitibus vices.]
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Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship).
[Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]
Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases.
[Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]
Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other vices but impair the soul--this demolishes her two chief faculties, the understanding and the will; other vices make their own way--this makes way for all vices; he that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.
The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent.
[Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]
For to give is the business of the rich.
[Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
Jehovah was not a moral god. He had all the vices and he lacked all the virtues. He generally carried out all his threats, but he never faithfully kept a promise.
Our first postulate is that because God is God, He does as He pleases, only as He pleases, always as He pleases; that His great concern is the accomplishment of His own pleasure and the promotion of His own glory that He is the Supreme Being, and therefore Sovereign of the universe.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.
Fill your plate with the colours of the rainbow. What pleases the eye, pleases the body.
A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.
From our limited vantage point, our lives are marked by an endless series of contingencies. We frequently find ourselves, instead of acting as we planned, reacting to an unexpected turn of events. We make plans but are often forced to change those plans. But there are no contingencies with God. Our unexpected, forced change of plans is a part of His plan. God is never surprised; never caught off guard; never frustrated by unexpected developments. God does as He pleases and that which pleases Him is always for His glory and our good.
I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or their national origin - where every citizen is free to think and speak as he pleases and write and worship as he pleases - and where every citizen is free to vote as he pleases, without instructions from anyone, his employer, the union leader or his clergyman.
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
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