Horace Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

  Horace

  Courage, Ambition, Loss

  Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

• However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

  Horace

  Names, Desire, Imperfect

• Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.

  Horace

  Desire, Care, Riches

• Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.

  Horace

  Desire

• He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

  Horace

  Desire, Want, Enough

• When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

  Horace

  Gold, Desire, Cups

• Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.

  Horace

  Desire, Naked, Camps

• Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.

  Horace

  Fall, Grief, Passion

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.364, Delphi Classics

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