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Make a fortune; a fortune, if you can, honestly; if not, a fortune by any means. — Horace

Essay

Make a fortune; a fortune, if you can, honestly; if not, a fortune by any means.

In the original Latin

Si possis, recte, si non, quocumque modo rem.

Horace
21 BC
★ 2.2
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Making moneyWork
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21 BCClassical antiquity
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Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 1.
Original citation
Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 1.

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