All things Quote by Horace

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

— Horace

Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat., Auream quisquis…

— Horace

“Aristotle urged people to seek “the golden mean” between extremes, “moderation in all things” (which we interpret as including moderation in the pursuit of…

— Reid Hastie

Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The happy freemen,…

— Philip Massinger

If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a…

— Isaac D'Israeli

“When a man is rich, whether in gold or in knowledge, he must treat the poverty of others with consideration.”

— Amin Maalouf

Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“The wise and the good never form the majority of any large society and it seldom happens that their measures are uniformly adopted.... [All…

— John Jay

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the…

— Anonymous

“The most impoverished peasant can be delighted by the opening of the first spring flower, and the most wealthy aristocrat can curse the day…

— Emma Wildes

Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless

— Anonymous