A Quote by Ovid

The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]

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Ovid
Roman - Poet
43 BC - 17 AD

The views of the multitude are neither bad nor good. [Lat., Neque mala, vel bona, quae vulgus putet.]

Tacitus

A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk. [Lat., Vulgus ignavum et nihil ultra verba ausurum.]

Tacitus

I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence). [Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Favete linguis.]

Horace

May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.]

Ovid

The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.]

Sallust

The venal herd. [Lat., Venale pecus.]

Juvenal

Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]

Ovid

A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd.

Jean de la Bruyere

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

Samuel Johnson

The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.

Israel Zangwill

What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

Ben Horowitz

Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.

Michel de Montaigne

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

Jean Henri Fabre

Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise -- but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all through.

Emily Post

Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower. [Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.]

Ovid

The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.

David Icke

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