Persius Quotes

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The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.

Persius
But when tomorrow 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.

Persius
Let them look upon virtue and pine because they have lost her.

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

Persius
Let them recognize virtue and rot for having lost it.

Persius
Tell, priests, what is gold doing in a holy place?

Persius
Live with yourself: get to know how poorly furnished you are.

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Is all your knowledge to go so utterly for nothing unless other people know that you possess it?

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Our life is our own today, tomorrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.

Persius
None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind.

Persius
O but it is a fine thing to have a finger pointed at one, and to hear people say, "That's the man!"

Persius
She knows her man, and when you rant and swear,
Can draw you to her with a single hair.

Persius
Don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.

Persius
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.]

Persius
Is science only useful as 'tis shown, And is thy knowledge nothing, if not known?

Persius
Check the ailment before it's got to you...

Persius