Aulus Gellius Quotes

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.

A man should be religious, not superstitious.

Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.

[F]or whenever I had taken in hand any Greek or Latin book, or had heard anything worth remembering, I used to jot down whatever took my fancy, of any and every kind, without any definite plan or order; and such notes I would lay away as an aid to my memory, like a kind of literary storehouse, so that when the need arose of a word or a subject which I chanced for the moment to have forgotten, and the books from which it had taken it were not at hand, I could readily find and produce it.

The spirits increase, vigor grows through a wound.