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The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.
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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.
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Let them look upon virtue and pine because they have lost her.
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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.
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Let them recognize virtue and rot for having lost it.
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Tell, priests, what is gold doing in a holy place?
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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.
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None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind.
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O but it is a fine thing to have a finger pointed at one, and to hear people say, "That's the man!"
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She knows her man, and when you rant and swear,
Can draw you to her with a single hair.
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Don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.
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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.]
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Is science only useful as 'tis shown, And is thy knowledge nothing, if not known?
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Check the ailment before it's got to you...
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Born:
December 4, 34
Died:
November 24, 62
(aged 27)
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Persius, in full Aulus Persius Flaccus, was a Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin. In his works, poems and satires, he shows a stoic wisdom and a strong criticism for the abuses of his contemporaries.
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