Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
HORACEThe gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
More Horace Quotes
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Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
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With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
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He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
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Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.
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Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
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What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.
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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
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One cannot know everything.
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Let him who has once perceived how much that, which has been discarded, excels that which he has longed for, return at once, and seek again that which he despised.
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And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
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Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.
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I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
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He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.
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I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
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