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But don’t all things,
virtue, a good name, honor, all that’s human and divine,
obey money, lovely money?
[Omnis enim res,
Virtus, fama, decus, divina, humanaque pulchris
Divitiis parent.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 3, “Si raro scribes,” l. 94ff (2.3.94-96) (30 BC) [tr. Fuchs (1977)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/76931/
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But don’t all things,
virtue, a good name, honor, all that’s human and divine,
obey money, lovely money?
[Omnis enim res,
Virtus, fama, decus, divina, humanaque pulchris
Divitiis parent.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 3, “Si raro scribes,” l. 94ff (2.3.94-96) (30 BC) [tr. Fuchs (1977)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/76931/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avarice #greed #highervalues #importance #miser #money #priorities #profit #values #wealth
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But don’t all things,
virtue, a good name, honor, all that’s human and divine,
obey money, lovely money?
[Omnis enim res,
Virtus, fama, decus, divina, humanaque pulchris
Divitiis parent.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 3, “Si raro scribes,” l. 94ff (2.3.94-96) (30 BC) [tr. Fuchs (1977)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/76931/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avarice #greed #highervalues #importance #miser #money #priorities #profit #values #wealth
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But don’t all things,
virtue, a good name, honor, all that’s human and divine,
obey money, lovely money?
[Omnis enim res,
Virtus, fama, decus, divina, humanaque pulchris
Divitiis parent.]Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 3, “Si raro scribes,” l. 94ff (2.3.94-96) (30 BC) [tr. Fuchs (1977)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/horace/76931/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avarice #greed #highervalues #importance #miser #money #priorities #profit #values #wealth