Pretium Quotes

#1. Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir.
The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.

Horace

#2. Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down.
[Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores,
Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]

Ovid

#3. Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
[Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato;
Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]

Juvenal

#4. I begun to run from the place where everyone stops running, and now i'm the lone runner who can run in any direction without any rules to follow beacuse now nothing endures me, I'm free.

Omkar

#5. Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it enables people to have no need of each other.

Bill McKibben

#6. I want to be inspiring to myself, to my kids, my family, and my friends.

Jodie Foster

#7. Do we have time?" I asked. He smiled sadly. "If only," he said.

John Green

#8. To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.

Cecil Taylor