Quote by Horace

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.

Summary

This quote suggests that the fear of being humiliated or disrespected by others acts as a deterrent for individuals to engage in immoral or sinful behavior. When individuals witness the disgrace or negative consequences faced by others who have engaged in vices, it can shape their own behavior and limit their inclination to follow a similar path. The awareness of the potential social judgment and the desire to maintain a positive reputation can serve as a powerful motivator in preventing individuals from partaking in wrongdoing.

Topics

Virtue

By Horace

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reaso

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Jacques Maritain

Character

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I wa

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

Birthday

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.

Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me no

Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.

Life

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing fo

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper

World Cheating

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy me

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Life Humanity People Mortality Mankind

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves o

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Change

The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all thi

The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.

Life

My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of m

My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all.

Fitness

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immed

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

Beauty

It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.

It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.

Peace

To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolis

To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.

Frederick Soddy

Knowledge