Aulus Persius Flaccus Quotes

Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.

He who conquers, endures.

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

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

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.

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.

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

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.

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

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.

Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser.

Oh, what a void there is in things.

Each man has his fancy.

He conquers who endures.

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

I know you even under the skin.

Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.

For Yesterday was once To-morrow.

Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!

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

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

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

Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?

The belly is the giver of genius.

Check disease in its approach.

Live according to your income.

Things fit only to give weight to smoke.