Horace Quotes
Get money first; virtue comes after.
Topics
Materialism
Economic Stability
Financial Independence, Fiscal Independence, Economic Independence
Financial Success
Firsts
Moral Values
Financial Planning
Financial Stability
Money
Ethical Conduct
Financial Goals
Financial Priorities
Material Success
Moral Order
Wealth Accumulation
monetary focus
financial priority
prioritizing wealth
Citations
Horace. Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica. Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough, Harvard UP, 1926, p. 255.
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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."