Aulus Persius Flaccus Quotes - Page 2

• Check disease in its approach.

  Aulo Persio Flaco

  Disease, Checks, Approach

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

  Aulo Persio Flaco

  Men, Wish, Tears

  "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satire I, line 90,

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• Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her.
  [Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]

  Aulo Persio Flaco

  Wicked, Virtue, Forsaken

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• Cada uno tiene su capricho.

  Aulo Persio Flaco

  Men, Fancy

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• Confined to common life thy numbers flow,
  And neither soar too high nor sink too low;
  There strength and ease in graceful union meet,
  Though polished, subtle, and though poignant, sweet;
  Yet powerful to abash the from of crime
  And crimson error's cheek with sportive rhyme.
  [Lat., Verba togae sequeris, junctura callidus acri,
  Ore teres modico, pallentes radere mores
  Doctus, et ingenuo culpam defigere ludo.]

  Aulo Persio Flaco

  Sweet, Powerful, Numbers

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• Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there.
  [Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.]

  Aulo Persio Flaco

  Character, Retiring, Thyself

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• Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.

  Aulo Persio Flaco

  Affair, Quantum, Folly

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• 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.]

  Aulo Persio Flaco

  Views, Trying, Nemo

  "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, IV. 24,

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

  Aulo Persio Flaco

  Affair, Humans, Has Beens

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• You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class).
  [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]

  Aulo Persio Flaco

  Class, Togas, Speech

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

  Aulo Persio Flaco

  Teacher, Art, Hunger

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

  Aulo Persio Flaco

  Knowledge, Knows, Values

  "The satires of Persius". Book by Persius, 1799.

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• Vive allí el hombre con el alma tan muerta como para renegar del deseo de merecer el aplauso del pueblo, y habiendo pronunciado palabras dignas de ser guardadas en aceite de cedro hasta los últimos tiempos, dejar tras de sí rimas que no temen ni a los arenques ni al incienso.

  Aulo Persio Flaco

  Men, Oil, People

  "The satires of Persius". Book by Persius, 1799.

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• Oh estrella natal, tú produces gemelos de carácter muy diferente.
  [Lat., Geminos, horóscopo, varo Producis genio.]

  Aulo Persio Flaco

  Stars, Character, Fate

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• Things fit only to give weight to smoke.

  Aulo Persio Flaco

  Giving, Weight, Fit

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