Horace Quotes
Frugality is one thing, avarice another.
Horace. The Works of Horace. Translated by Christopher Smart, Harper & Brothers, 1855, p. 280.
Then, as today, whenever a person was greedy rich, people might not approve of their ethics or morals, but the assumption was (not always warranted) that the person was smart and wise in the ways of making money, and very often people would generalize to other areas and think the money maker was generally sagacious.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace (/ˈhɒrɪs/), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."
