Horace understood the hollowness at the heart of unparalleled prosperity and the way money makes for a false god. He wrote about the benefits of recognising and of the sanity of being content with quod satis est (“what is enough”).

贺拉斯理解空前的繁荣本质上的空洞以及金钱所造就的虚假神。他写道关于认识不可避免极限的好处，以及满足“已经足够”（ quod satis est ）的明智性。