Horace Quotes

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

The only peace is being out of earshot.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Allah never gave such as this to any people without that giving rise to mutual envy and hatred.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have... we always want more.

Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.

In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.

He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and covet what they cannot hope to get.

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.

It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict.

Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.

They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.

What I want is not to want what isn't mine

He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.

I've excluded happiness as one of those possibilities we seek for ourselves. Oh, I still want it, but that's beside the point. Contentment - they say it's the ultimate, but I can't even wish for that. I don't even want the desire to be content. I can only hope for silence.

Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.