WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/horace/77623/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Horace</b></a></p><blockquote>Now give attention and your gowns refold,<br> Who thirst for fame, grow yellow after gold,<br>Victims to luxury, superstition blind,<br> Or other ailment natural to the mind:<br>Come close to me and listen, while I teach<br> That you’re a pack of madmen, all and each.<br> <br><i>[Audire atque togam iubeo conponere, quisquis<br>Ambitione mala aut argenti pallet amore,<br>Quisquis luxuria tristive superstitione<br>Aut alio mentis morbo calet ; hue propius me,<br>Dum doceo insanire omnes, vos ordine adite.]</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, # 3, <i>“Si raro scribes,”</i> l. 77ff (2.3.77-81) (30 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, other translations: <a href="https://wist.info/horace/77623/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/horace/77623/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=horace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>horace</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=ambition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ambition</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=avarice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>avarice</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=envy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>envy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=fame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fame</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=fear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fear</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>greed</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=insanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>insanity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=luxury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>luxury</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=madness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>madness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=pride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pride</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=renown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>renown</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=superstition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>superstition</span></a></p>