Horace Quotes
Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?
Horace. Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica. Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough, Harvard University Press, 1926, p. 255.
The Knight Commission, is a panel of members of the American academic, athletic and journalism communities, with an eye toward reform of college athletics, particularly in regard to emphasizing academic values and policies that ensure athletic programs operate within the educational missions of their universities. Vaccaro, represented Nike and other sports-related companies and made deals to have a school’s teams wear the company logo on Other uniforms, use the companies athletic shoes, and other equipment. He was one of the most successful in the business having brokered the Nike shoe deal with Michael Jordan. He was also terribly candid as this quotation demonstrates.
[This has the sound, textural and physical structure of a wonderful quotation. However it does not comport with reality. The second clause does, but the first is contradicted by many who have made money honestly and then had a revelation of one type or another. And then of course there are so many of the thinkers and philosophers who damn money but never earned much himself.]thinkers and philosophers who damn money but never earned much himself.]
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."
