Occupation: Poet Birth: 34 Death: 62
I know you even under the skin..
For Yesterday was once To-morrow..
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 j….
Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed..
The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit..
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..
Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?.
Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it..
He who conquers, endures..
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations..
Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing..
Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?.
Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there. [Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.].
Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her. [Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.].
And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own..
We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays..
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 ….
The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight..
Thou art moist and soft clay; thou must instantly be shaped by the glowing wheel. [Lat., Udum et molle lutum es: nunc, nunc properandus et acri Finge….
Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing..
He conquers who endures..