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.
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
![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 - Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/nor-let-a-god-come-in-unless-the-difficulty-be-wor-683x1024.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)
