Aulus Persius Flaccus Quotes
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That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view. [Lat., Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo! Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.]
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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
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Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter
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Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.
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O natal star, thou producest twins of widely different character. [Lat., Geminos, horoscope, varo Producis genio.]
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You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good-but your rich foods block the gods' answer and tie Jupiter's hands.
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We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.
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Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
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Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?
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I know you even under the skin.
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The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.
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Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her. [Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]
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The belly is the giver of genius.
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Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there. [Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.]
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Each man has his fancy.
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Things fit only to give weight to smoke.
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Live according to your income.
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Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing.
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Thou art moist and soft clay; thou must instantly be shaped by the glowing wheel. [Lat., Udum et molle lutum es: nunc, nunc properandus et acri Fingendus sine fine rota.]
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But when to-morrow comes, yesterday's morrow will have been already spent: and lo! a fresh morrow will be for ever making away with our years, each just beyond our grasp.
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Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.
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You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]
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Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.
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Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!
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It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man." [Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]
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Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.
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Please not thyself the flattering crowd to hear; 'Tis fulsome stuff, to please thy itching ear. Survey thy soul, not what thou does appear, But what thou art.
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Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.
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He who conquers, endures.
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He conquers who endures.
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