Ovid Quotes About Gold
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The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.
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I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.
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Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love
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Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.
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Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.
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Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.
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Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.
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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.
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