Persius Quotes
Aulus Persius Flaccus (34–62) was a Roman satirical poet and moralist.
Also known as: Aulus Persius Flaccus
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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.
I know you even under the skin.
Quantum est in rebus inane!
How much folly there is in human affairs.
To be pointed out with the finger.
Who’ll read that sort of thing?
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.
Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept in cedar oil to latest times, to leave behind him rhymes that dread neither herrings nor frankincense.
When another day has arrived, we will find that we have consumed our yesterday's to-morrow; another morrow will urge on our years, and still be a little beyond us.
She knows her man, and when you rant and swear,
Can draw you to her with a single hair.
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