If possible honestly, if not, somehow, make money.

Si possis, recte, si non, quocumque modo rem.

Horace

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Making money Work

Author

Horace

Source

Epistles

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Advice

Language

Latin

Time

21 BC 20s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Italy Europe Roman Empire

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Original Citation

Horace. Epistles. 1st century BC, bk. 1, poem 1, l. 65.

Current Citation

Horace. The Epistles of Horace: Bilingual Edition. Translated by David Ferry. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002, bk. 1, poem 1, l. 65.

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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

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The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.

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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

Thomas More

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