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And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own. - [Self-trust] Check disease in its approach. - [Proverbs] Each man has his fancy. - [Proverbs] For Yesterday was once To-morrow. - [Procrastination] He conquers who endures. - [Endurance] His bloated paunch stands forth projecting a good eighteen inches. - [Proverbs] Hunger is the teacher of the arts, and the bestower of invention. - [Hunger] Indulge, and to thy genius freely give, For not to live at ease is not to live. - [Ease] It is a pleasant thing to be pointed at with the finger, and to hear it said, "That is he." - [Proverbs] Live according to your income. - [Proverbs] May everything he treads upon become a rose! - [Proverbs] Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring? - [Proverbs] Ostensibly polite, you nourish the cunning of the fox in the hollowness of your heart. - [Proverbs] Snuffling through his nose some stale joke. - [Proverbs] You are too sarcastic. - [Proverbs] Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it. - [Proverbs] The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit. [Lat., Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter.] - Prologue to Satires (10) [Eating] You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.] - Satires (5, 14) [Speech] How much folly there is in human affairs. [Lat., Quantum est in rebus inane!] - Satires (I, 1) [Folly] Nothing can be born of nothing, nothing can be resolved into nothing. [Lat., Gigni De nihilo nihil, in nihilum nil posse reverti.] - Satires (I, 111, 83) [Nothingness] Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge? [Lat., Scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter?] - Satires (I, 27) [Knowledge] It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man." [Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.] - Satires (I, 28) [Fame] Over their cups. [Lat., Inter pocula.] - Satires (I, 30) [Drinking] 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. [Lat., An erit, qui velle recuset Os populi meruisse? et cedro digna locutus Linquere, nec scombros metuentia carmina nec thus.] - Satires (I, 41) [Poetry] To be pointed out with the finger. - Satires (I, l. 28) [Reputation] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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