A Quote by Horace

You are judged of by what you possess. — © Horace
You are judged of by what you possess.

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Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.
A man is judged by the company he keeps, and a company is judged by the men it keeps, and the people of Democratic nations are judged by the type and caliber of officers they elect.
The Pope should not flatter himself about his power nor should he rashly glory in his honor and high estate, because the less he is judged by man, the more he is judged by God. Still the less can the Roman Pontiff glory because he can be judged by men, or rather, can be shown to be already judged, if for example he should wither away into heresy; because he who does not believe is already judged, In such a case it should be said of him: 'If salt should lose its savor, it is good for nothing but to be cast out and trampled under foot by men.'
Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images — as, according to Proust, most ambitious of voluntary prisoners, one can't possess the present but one can possessthe past.
Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.
At the end of the day, my career is not going to be judged by one or two or three moments in time. It'll be judged by the longevity of it.
Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.
Cities are judged by their richest inhabitants and rural areas are judged
I don't want America to be judged as God judged Sodom and Gomorrah.
We are not judged by what we are basically. We are judged by how hard we use what we have been given. Success means nothing to the Lord.
It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For this reason, the evolution of language is widely judged to be the culminating event in the emergence of humanity as we know it today.
As a book is judged by its cover, so a fad is judged by its name.
As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord.
In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving
I don't possess these thoughts I have --- they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have --- They obsess me.
In the end we won't be judged as a society solely by our growth statistics or economic activity graphs. We will be judged by the quality of the life that we foster for all members of the community and the compassion we show for the disadvantaged.
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