Horace Quotes About Wealth
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Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
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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.
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Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.
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Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.
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Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.
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Riches either serve or govern the possessor.
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Riches are first to be sought for; after wealth, virtue.
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When I caution you against becoming a miser, I do not therefore advise you to become a prodigal or a spendthrift.
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What is wealth to me if I cannot enjoy it?
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O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.
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Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.
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The accumulation of wealth is followed by an increase of care, and by an appetite for more.
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The gods have given you wealth and the means of enjoying it.
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For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.
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All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.
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Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.
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Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.
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He wears himself out by his labours, and grows old through his love of possessing wealth.
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High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed.
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A pauper in the midst of wealth.
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If it is well with your belly, chest and feet - the wealth of kings can't give you more.
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