Quote by Horace

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid

Summary

This quote suggests that the path to virtue and wisdom begins with actively avoiding negative qualities and behaviors. It implies that by consciously distancing ourselves from vices, we embark on a journey towards embracing virtuous actions. Additionally, shedding foolishness is considered a crucial first step in developing wisdom. Overall, the quote emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and actively making choices that lead to personal growth and moral development.

Topics

Wisdom Life Virtues Vices

By Horace

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Jesus wanted to show mercy to every single person He met. He

Jesus wanted to show mercy to every single person He met. He wanted to sweep them up and embrace them with His love. But because of His eternal plans for goodness, He can't always do that. I don't know why, but i believe He has a greater good than healing our temporary pain.

Susan May Warren

Inspirational Jesus Christ

Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.

Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Fate & Destiny

In a world where the outrageous has become the norm, stable

In a world where the outrageous has become the norm, stable organizations make no sense.

Organization

I don't think I'll ever feel perfectly balanced, but I feel

I don't think I'll ever feel perfectly balanced, but I feel like I'm figuring it out, and I'm surrounded by really wonderful people that want to see me succeed and be happy. Life is wild.

Sharon Van Etten

It is by the goodness of God that we have those three unspea

It is by the goodness of God that we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Freedom

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Marian Mountain

Life

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

Pliny the Elder

Belief

It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money ar

It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say, 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work.

Christopher Lambert

Famous

The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and

The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.

Henry Charles Carey

Freedom

I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a ho

I might get drunk one day and fall in love or fall over a hooker outside, and I would have consummated a relationship that I couldn't necessarily believe in.

Love

I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own e

I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

Society

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been p

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

Marquis de Sade

Death