Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.
Horace
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Horace
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Q. Horatius Flaccus
Horatius
Horatius Flaccus
Consumerism
Thirst
Follows
Riches
Grow
Grows
Care
More quotes by Horace
The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.
Horace
He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
Horace
All powerful money gives birth and beauty. [Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.]
Horace
Live mindful of how brief your life is.
Horace
Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.
Horace
It is good to labor it is also good to rest from labor.
Horace
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
Horace
Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.
Horace
It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
Horace
Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.
Horace
Humble things become the humble.
Horace
Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.
Horace
Those that are little, little things suit.
Horace
To have begun is half the job be bold and be sensible.
Horace
The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.
Horace
Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.
Horace
Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.
Horace
Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
Horace
A dowried wife, friends, beauty, birth, fair fame, These are the gifts of money, heavenly dame: Be but a moneyed man, persuasion tips Your tongue, and Venus settles on your lips.
Horace
Joys do not fall to the rich alone nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note.
Horace