WIST Quotations Has Moved! 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.]
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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Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 3, "Si raro scribes," l. 94ff (2.3.94-96) (30 BC) [tr. Fuchs (1977)] - Horace | WIST Quotations
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.] Damasippus (quoting the Stoic philosopher Stertinius?) on the mindset of a miser. (Source (Latin)). Alternate translations: For all and every thinge…