Ausonius Quotes

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

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If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

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A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor.

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Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole.

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It is outrageous that a strictly abstemious reader should sit in judgement on a poet a little drunk.

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His monuments decay, and death comes even to his marbles and his names.

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So many lovely things, so rare, so young,
A day begat them, and a day will end.

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Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.

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O maid, while youth is with the rose and thee,
Pluck thou the rose: life is as swift for thee.

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Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.

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Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

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I've never written for a fasting man;
A taste of wine is good before my verse.
But sleep is better than a little wine,
For when sleeping one thinks my songs are dreams.

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They wander in deep woods, in mournful light,
Amid long reeds and drowsy headed poppies
And lakes where no wave laps, and voiceless streams,
Upon whose banks in the dim light grow old
Flowers that were once bewailed names of kings.

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What colour are they now, thy quiet waters?
The evening star has brought the evening light,
And filled the river with the green hillside;
The hill-tops waver in the rippling water,
Trembles the absent vine and swells the grape
In thy clear crystal.

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