Horace Quotes
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Topics
Life
Moderation
Simplicity, Simplification
Contentment
Financial Independence, Fiscal Independence, Economic Independence
Frugality
Self-Sufficiency
Financial Freedom
Minimalism
Frugal Living
Living Within Means
Mindful Consumption
Simple Living
Sustainable Living
Wealth Mindset
Slave Mentality
Citations
Horace. Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica. Translated by H. Rushton Fairclough, Harvard University Press, 1926, p. 317.
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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."