Top 35 Flaccus Quotes
#1. Do you ask what sort of a maid I desire or dislike, Flaccus? I dislike one too easy and one too coy. The just mean, which lies between the two extremes, is what I approve; I like neither that which tortures nor that which cloys.
Martial
#2. Flaccus, the sort of girl I hate
Is the scrawny one, with arms so thin
My rings would fit them, hips that grate,
Spine like a saw, knees like a pin
And a coccyx like a javelin.
But all the same I don't go in
For sheer bulk. I appreciate
Good meat, not blubber, on my plate.
Marcus Valerius Martialis
#5. 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
#6. 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
#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
#12. Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?
Aulus Persius Flaccus
#13. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her.
[Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]
Aulus Persius Flaccus
#19. Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter
Aulus Persius Flaccus
#20. 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
#22. Indulge, and to thy genius freely give,
For not to live at ease is not to live.
Aulus Persius Flaccus
#23. You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class).
[Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]
Aulus Persius Flaccus
#24. 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
#25. 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
#27. 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
#28. O natal star, thou producest twins of widely different character.
[Lat., Geminos, horoscope, varo Producis genio.]
Aulus Persius Flaccus
#30. Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.
Aulus Persius Flaccus
#35. The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.
Aulus Persius Flaccus
