WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/horace/76256/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Horace</b></a></p><blockquote>Then why not better use this proud excess<br>Of worthless wealth? Why lives in deep distress<br>A man unworthy to be poor, or why<br>The temples of the gods in ruins lie?<br>Why not of such a massy treasure spare<br>To thy dear country, wretch, a moderate share?<br> <br> <i>[Ergo,<br>quod superat non est melius quo insumere possis?<br>Cur eget indignus quisquam te divite? Quare<br>templa ruunt antiqua Deum? Cur, inprobe, carae<br>non aliquid patriae tanto emetiris acervo?]</i></blockquote><p><b>Horace</b> (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]<br><i>Satires [Saturae, Sermones],</i> Book 2, # 2, <i>“Quae virtus et quanta,”</i> l. 101ff (2.2.101-105) (30 BC) [tr. Francis (1747)]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: <a href="https://wist.info/horace/76256/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/horace/76256/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=horace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>horace</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=commonwealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commonwealth</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=charity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>charity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=giving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>giving</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=givingback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>givingback</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>money</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=philanthropy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philanthropy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=surplus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surplus</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=wealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wealth</span></a></p>