Horace Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.

  Horace

  Kings, Feet, Giving

• A pauper in the midst of wealth.

  Horace

  Wealth, Midst

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

• All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

  Horace

  Names, Heaven, Earth

  Horace (1963). “The Complete Works of Horace”

• Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.

  Horace

  Mind, Bats, Care

• When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.

  Horace

  Becoming, Wealth, Caution

• Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.

  Horace

  Rome, Noise, Wealth

  "Carmina", III. 29. 11, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 677, 1922.

• Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.

  Horace

  Riches, Firsts, Wealth

• O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.

  Horace

  Practice, Citizens, Firsts

• Riches either serve or govern the possessor.

  Horace

  Riches, Wealth

  "Epistles", I. 10. 47, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 864-67, 1922.

• The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.

  Horace

  Mean, Wealth, Given

• For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

  Horace

  Honor, Riches, Influence

  "Satires", II. 3. 94, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 864-67, 1922.

• Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.

  Horace

  Wealth, Fortune, Nameless

• Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

  Horace

  Noble, Wealth, Descent

  "Satires", II. 5. 8, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 864-67, 1922.

• What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?

  Horace

  Wealth, Enjoy, Ifs

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

  Horace

  Desire, Care, Riches

• Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.

  Horace

  Men, Wife, Credit

• Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth.
  [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]

  Horace

  Money, Firsts, Wealth

• The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.

  Horace

  Care, Wealth, Increase

• Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

  Horace

  Greed, Care, Wealth

  Horace (1936). “Complete Works”

• He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.

  Horace

  His Love, Wealth, Grows

• High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.

  Horace

  Useless, Deeds, Wealth

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