Horace
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
life success money
Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?
money men wife
A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.
money firsts get-money
Get money first; virtue comes after.
money greed want
He who is greedy is always in want.
money mean stills
Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.
money slave masters
Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.
money firsts wealth
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
money mean honest
Money, make money; by honest means if you can; if not, by any means make money. [Lat., Rem facias rem, Recte si possis, si non, quocumque modo rem.]
money use fortune
Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it? [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]
money powerful giving
All powerful money gives birth and beauty. [Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.]
money proud birth
Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth. [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae, Fortuna non mutat genus.]
bids council money
Does he council you better who bids you, ''Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?
inspirational life money
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
money men hands
The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.