Quotes by Aulus Persius Flaccus - Page 1

Each man has his fancy.
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Men
Fancy
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He conquers who endures.
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Determination
Perseverance
Stay Strong
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He who conquers, endures.
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Conquer
Endure
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Live according to your income.
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Check disease in its approach.
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Approach
Checks
Disease
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I know you even under the skin.
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Knowledge
Knows
Skins
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The belly is the giver of genius.
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Food
Genius
Giver
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For Yesterday was once To-morrow.
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Morrow
Procrastination
Yesterday
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Oh, what a void there is in things.
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Things fit only to give weight to smoke.
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Fit
Giving
Weight
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Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser.
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Advice
Adviser
Bad Advice
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And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.
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We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.
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Life
Fear
Yesterday
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Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing.
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Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.
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Knowing
Knows
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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
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Freedom
Men
Please
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Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!
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Men
Care
Vanity
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Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.
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Born
Nothingness
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Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.
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Affair
Folly
Quantum
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The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.
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Art
Teacher
Invention
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Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
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Men
Desire
Inclination
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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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Ease
Genius
Giving
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The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.
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Art
Teacher
Eating
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Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?
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Knowledge
Knows
Values
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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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Affair
Has Beens
Humans
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You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]
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Class
Speech
Togas
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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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Art
Teacher
Hunger
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O natal star, thou producest twins of widely different character. [Lat., Geminos, horoscope, varo Producis genio.]
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Character
Fate
Stars
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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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Men
Tears
Wish
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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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Dust
Life Is
Shade
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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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Forsaken
Virtue
Wicked
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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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Character
Retiring
Thyself
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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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Yoga
Block
Strong
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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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Men
Fame
He Man
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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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Art
Crowds
Soul
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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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Morrow
Years
Yesterday
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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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Art
Character
Glowing
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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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Nemo
Trying
Views
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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.
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Men
Oil
People
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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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Numbers
Powerful
Sweet
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