“Let’s put a limit to the scramble for money. ...
Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end.”

—  Horace , book Satires

Book I, satire i, lines 92-94, as translated by N. Rudd
Satires (c. 35 BC and 30 BC)

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Roman lyric poet -65–-8 BC

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