The Satires, Translated Into English Ve...
A source page for quotes linked to Aulus Persius Flaccus.
“The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.”
“The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.”
“Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.”
“Indulge, and to thy genius freely give, For not to live at ease is not to live.”
“Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.”
“You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]”
“Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!”
“Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?”
“Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?”
“Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.”
“For Yesterday was once To-morrow.”
“Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.”
“Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.”