Skip to content

Fortune Quote by Horace

“Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio…” quote by Horace — Download Open image

“Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Fortune Incomplete Wealth

More by Horace

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us…

Image

“Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis. (To action little, less to words inclinded.)”

Image

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

Image

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

Image

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.

Image

“Natales grate numeras? (Do you count your birthdays with gratitude?)”

Image

In a moment comes either death or joyful victory. [Lat., Horae Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]

Image

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing to die for ones country.

Image

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

Image

Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments.

Image

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted…

Image

“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.”

Image

Explore all 1,000 Horace quotes

More Fortune quotes

Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my…

William Shakespeare

Image

Five World Series rings, 3000-plus hits, the fame, the fortune and playing for the second most historic franchise in baseball... These are just some…

Image

What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I…

Image

From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of…

Giraldus Cambrensis

Image

Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine…

Image

“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of…

Henry David Thoreau

Image

You have a little bit of talent, a certain amount of good fortune and a lot of hard work in pursuit of whatever truth…

Donald Sutherland

Image

Honesty, by evil fortune tried, Finds in adversity the seed of praise.

Image

No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them;…

Alexis de Tocqueville

Image

A great JRPG captures that feeling of going on an unusual adventure, of bringing a ragtag group of heroes from famine to fortune or…

Image

A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.

James A. Michener

Image

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

Benjamin Disraeli

Image

Browse all 2,671 Fortune quotes