Aulus Persius Flaccus Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.”
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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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“O natal star, thou producest twins of widely different character. [Lat., Geminos, horoscope, varo Producis genio.]”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“Indulge, and to thy genius freely give, For not to live at ease is not to live.”
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“Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept in cedar oil to latest times, to leave behind him rhymes that dread neither herrings nor frankincense. [Lat., An erit, qui velle recuset Os populi meruisse? et cedro digna locutus Linquere, nec scombros metuentia carmina nec thus.]”
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“Confined to common life thy numbers flow, And neither soar too high nor sink too low; There strength and ease in graceful union meet, Though polished, subtle, and though poignant, sweet; Yet powerful to abash the from of crime And crimson error's cheek with sportive rhyme. [Lat., Verba togae sequeris, junctura callidus acri, Ore teres modico, pallentes radere mores Doctus, et ingenuo culpam defigere ludo.]”
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“Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.”
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“You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]”
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“Things fit only to give weight to smoke.”
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“Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!”
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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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“Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.”
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“The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.”
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“Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?”
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“Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?”
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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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“Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.”
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“For Yesterday was once To-morrow.”
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“The belly is the giver of genius.”
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“Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing.”
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“And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.”
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