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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] Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns! - [Vanity] Ostensibly polite, you nourish the cunning of the fox in the hollowness of your heart. - [Proverbs] Please not thyself the flattering crowd to hear; 'Tis fulsome stuff, to please thy itching ear. Survey thy soul, not what thou does appear, But what thou art. - [Popularity] Retire within yourself, and you will discover how small a stock there is. [Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.] - [Self] Snuffling through his nose some stale joke. - [Proverbs] Things fit only to give weight to smoke. - [Trifles] 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] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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