Horace Quotes About Desire

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  • Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.

  • Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.

  • Who has courage to say no again and again to desires, to despise the objects of ambition, who is a whole in himself, smoothed and rounded.

    Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”
  • However rich or elevated, a name less something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.

  • Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.

  • He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.

  • When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

  • Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.

    Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.364, Delphi Classics
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