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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser.
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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
Check disease in its approach.
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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
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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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
For Yesterday was once To-morrow.
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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
He conquers who endures.
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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
He who conquers, endures.
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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter
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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
I know you even under the skin.
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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
Indulge, and to thy genius freely give, For not to live at ease is not to live.
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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
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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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her. [Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]
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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
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.
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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.
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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!
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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
O natal star, thou producest twins of widely different character. [Lat., Geminos, horoscope, varo Producis genio.]
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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
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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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
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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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.
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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
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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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
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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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.
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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
The belly is the giver of genius.
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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight.
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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.
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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
Things fit only to give weight to smoke.
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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
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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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.
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By AnonymAulus Persius Flaccus
You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]
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