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
care riches consumerism
As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.
wicked riches increase
Riches with their wicked inducements increase; nevertheless, avarice is never satisfied.
riches firsts wealth
Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.
ease riches arabia
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
honor riches wealth
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.
riches wealth
Riches either serve or govern the possessor.
desire care riches
Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.
honor riches virtue
Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.
men riches culture
Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.
league world riches
Benevolence is a world of itself -- a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior.
guilty pale secrets turn wall
Be this your wall of brass, to have no guilty secrets, no wrong-doing that makes you turn pale
struggle
I struggle to be brief, and I become obscure.
died pride vain
Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride! They had no poet, and they died
fools-and-foolishness good mix silly
Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it's good to be silly at the right moment. (Odes, bk. 4, no. 12, l. 27)