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.
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]
![Horace Quote - Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/money-is-to-be-sought-for-first-of-all-virtue-afte.jpg)
![Horace Quote - And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/and-i-endeavour-to-subdue-circumstances-to-myself-.jpg)
![Horace Quote - Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. [Lat., Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/pale-death-with-impartial-step-knocks-at-the-hut-o.jpg)