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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

Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing. — Persius

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

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

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

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays. — Persius

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

And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own. — Persius

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

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