WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/horace/74804/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Horace</b></a></p><blockquote>But there’s a class of persons, led astray<br>By false desires, and this is what they say:<br>“You cannot have enough: what you possess,<br>That makes your value, be it more or less.”<br>What answer would you make to such as these?<br>Why, let them hug their misery if they please.<br> <br><i>[At bona pars hominum decepta cupidine falso<br>‘nil satis est’, inquit, ‘quia tanti quantum habeas sis’:<br>quid facias illi? iubeas miserum esse, libenter<br>quatenus id facit.]</i></blockquote><p><b>Horace</b> (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]<br><i>Satires [Saturae, Sermones],</i> Book 1, # 1, <i>“Qui fit, Maecenas,”</i> l. 61ff (1.1.61-64) (35 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: <a href="https://wist.info/horace/74804/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/horace/74804/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=avarice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>avarice</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=desire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>desire</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greed</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=misery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>misery</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>money</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=selfworth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selfworth</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=unhappiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unhappiness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=value" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>value</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=wealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wealth</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=worth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>worth</span></a></p>