Frases de Aulo Pérsio Flaco

“Do nada, nada vem; e ao nada, nada pode reverter.”

“A doença deve ser combatida ao nascer.”

“That master of arts, that dispenser of genius, the Belly.”
Magister artis ingenique largitor<br/>venter.

“O but it is a fine thing to have a finger pointed at one, and to hear people say, "That's the man!"”
At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier "hic est".

“Is all your knowledge to go so utterly for nothing unless other people know that you possess it?”
Usque adeone<br/>scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter?

“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.”
Cum lux altera venit,<br/>iam cras hesternum consumpsimus; ecce aliud cras<br/>egerit hos annos et semper paulum erit ultra.

“Let them recognize virtue and rot for having lost it.”
Virtutem videant intabescantque relicta.

“Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.”
Nostrum est<br/>quod vivis, cinis et manes et fabula fies.<br/>vive memor leti, fugit hora.

“Who’ll read that sort of thing?”
Quis leget haec?

“The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears – not tears that have been got ready overnight.”
Nec nocte paratum,<br/>plorabit qui me volet incurvasse querella.

“Don’t consult anyone’s opinions but your own.”
Nec te quaesiveris extra.

“Live with yourself: get to know how poorly furnished you are.”
Tecum habita: noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.

“VENIENTI OCCURRITE MORBO”