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Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.
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.
O natal star, thou producest twins of widely different character.
[Lat., Geminos, horoscope, varo Producis genio.]
Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter
Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta suppellex.
Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there.
The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.
Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs.
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.]
The belly is the giver of genius.
Check disease in its approach.
Things fit only to give weight to smoke.
Confined to common life thy numbers flow,
And neither soar too high nor sink too low;
There strength and ease in graceful union meet,
Though polished, subtle, and though poignant, sweet;
Yet powerful to abash the from of crime
And crimson error's cheek with sportive rhyme.
[Lat., Verba togae sequeris, junctura callidus acri,
Ore teres modico, pallentes radere mores
Doctus, et ingenuo culpam defigere ludo.]
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.
That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view.
[Lat., Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo!
Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.]
You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good-but your rich foods block the gods' answer and tie Jupiter's hands.
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.
Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser.
You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class).
[Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]
I know you even under the skin.
