Horace Quotes About Justice

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  • Fidelity is the sister of justice.

    Horace, James DOUGLAS (M.D.), Samuel Patrick, David WATSON (of Brechin.) (1745). “The Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare of Horace, Translated Into English Prose, as Near as the Two Languages Will Admit. Together with the Original Latin from the Best Editions. Wherein the Words of the Latin Text are Put in Their Grammatical Order ... with Notes ... The Whole Adapted Tothe Capacities of Youth at School, as Well as of Private Gentlemen. By David Watson ... Revised by a Gentleman Well Skill'd in this Sort of Literature at London [i.e. Samuel Patrick]. The Second Edition. [With a”, p.104
  • If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.

    Horace (1963). “The Complete Works of Horace”
  • Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight. [Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum Deseruit pede poena claudo.]

  • A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

  • What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 520-21, Carmina, I. 24. 6, 1922.
  • When a man is just and firm in his purpose, The citizens burning to approve a wrong Or the frowning looks of a tyrant Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind. Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic, Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove: Should the heavens crack and tumble down, As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.

    Horace, Joseph P. Clancy (1960). “Odes and Epodes”, p.108, University of Chicago Press
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Horace

  • Born: December 8, 65 BC
  • Died: November 27, 8 BC
  • Occupation: Poet
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