Aulus Persius Flaccus famous quotes

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Life #Fear #Yesterday

He conquers who endures.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Determination #Conquer #Endure

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.]
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Views #Trying #Nemo

O natal star, thou producest twins of widely different character. [Lat., Geminos, horoscope, varo Producis genio.]
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Stars #Character #Fate

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.]
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Men #Fame #He Man

Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there. [Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.]
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Character #Retiring #Thyself

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.]
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Art #Character #Glowing

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.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Art #Soul #Doe

Indulge, and to thy genius freely give, For not to live at ease is not to live.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Giving #Genius #Ease

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.]
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Men #Oil #People

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.]
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Sweet #Powerful #Numbers

Check disease in its approach.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Disease #Checks #Approach

Each man has his fancy.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Men #Fancy

Live according to your income.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Income

Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Knowing

You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Class #Togas #Speech

Things fit only to give weight to smoke.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Giving #Weight #Fit

Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Men #Vanity #Care

Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her. [Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Wicked #Virtue #Forsaken

Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Affair #Quantum #Folly

The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Teacher #Art #Eating

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Freedom #Men #Please

Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Knowledge #Values

I know you even under the skin.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Knowledge #Skins

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.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Strong #Block #Yoga

Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Born #Nothingness

For Yesterday was once To-morrow.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Procrastination #Yesterday #Morrow

The belly is the giver of genius.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Food #Genius #Giver

Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Opinion

Oh, what a void there is in things.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Void

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Men #Desire

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Teacher #Art #Hunger

Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Affair #Humans

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.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Years #Yesterday #Morrow

The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Men #Wish #Tears

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.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Dust #Shade #Life Is

The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Teacher #Art #Invention

Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser.
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Advice