John Conington: Man

John Conington was British classical scholar. Explore interesting quotes on man.

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“Then should some man of worth appear
Whose stainless virtue all revere,
They hush, they list: his clear voice rules
Their rebel wills, their anger cools.”

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 10

“Thou too take courage, wealth despise,
And fit thee to ascend the skies,
Nor be a poor man's courtesies
Rejected or disdained.”

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VIII, p. 286

“Death takes the mean man with the proud;
The fatal urn has room for all.”

Book III, ode i
Translations, The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace (1863)

“No, trust the Muse: she opes the good man's grave,
And lifts him to the gods.”

Book IV, ode viii
Translations, The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace (1863)

“Each has his destined time: a span
Is all the heritage of man:
'Tis virtue's part by deeds of praise
To lengthen fame through after days.”

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book X, p. 367

“He who maligns an absent friend's fair fame,
Who says no word for him when others blame,
Who courts a reckless laugh by random hits,
Just for the sake of ranking among wits,
Who feigns what he ne'er saw, a secret blabs,
Beware him, Roman! that man steals or stabs!”

Book I, satire iv, p. 18
Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Satires

“O impotence of man's frail mind
To fate and to the future blind,
Presumptuous and o'erweening still
When Fortune follows at its will!”

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book X, p. 369