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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.
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
Check disease in its approach.
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
He who conquers, endures.
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta suppellex. Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there. — Aulus Persius Flaccus
Oh, what a void there is in things.
— Persius
The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
Each man has his fancy.
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
For Yesterday was once To-morrow.
— Aulus 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.
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
The belly is the giver of genius.
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
Indulge, and to thy genius freely give,For not to live at ease is not to live. — Aulus Persius Flaccus
Live according to your income.
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
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
Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her.[Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.] — Aulus Persius Flaccus
You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class).[Lat., Verba togae sequeris.] — Aulus Persius Flaccus
Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
Things fit only to give weight to smoke.
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
I know you even under the skin.
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
He conquers who endures.
— Persius
Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser.
— Aulus Persius Flaccus
O natal star, thou producest twins of widely different character.[Lat., Geminos, horoscope, varo Producis genio.] — Aulus Persius Flaccus
Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter
— Aulus 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.] — Aulus Persius Flaccus
Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!
— Aulus Persius Flaccus