Top 40 Aulus Quotes
#2. The spirits increase, vigor grows through a wound.
Aulus Gellius
#3. 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
#4. 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
#6. I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.
Aulus Gellius
#9. 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
#10. Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.
Aulus Gellius
#13. I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae.
Aulus Gellius
#14. Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?
Aulus Persius Flaccus
#15. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her.
[Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]
Aulus Persius Flaccus
#21. Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.
Aulus Persius Flaccus
#23. Indulge, and to thy genius freely give,
For not to live at ease is not to live.
Aulus Persius Flaccus
#24. You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class).
[Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]
Aulus Persius Flaccus
#25. 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
#26. 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
#28. 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
#29. Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter
Aulus Persius Flaccus
#31. 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
#37. Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.
Aulus Gellius
#39. The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.
Aulus Persius Flaccus
#40. O natal star, thou producest twins of widely different character.
[Lat., Geminos, horoscope, varo Producis genio.]
Aulus Persius Flaccus
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