Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it. Aulus Persius Flaccus More Quotes by Aulus Persius Flaccus More Quotes From Aulus Persius Flaccus Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge? Aulus Persius Flaccus values knows knowledge Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing. Aulus Persius Flaccus Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her. Aulus Persius Flaccus forsaken wicked virtue Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed. Aulus Persius Flaccus affair has-beens humans O natal star, thou producest twins of widely different character. Aulus Persius Flaccus fate stars character The man who wishes to bend me with his tale of woe must shed true tears - not tears that have been got ready overnight. Aulus Persius Flaccus tears wish men Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there. Aulus Persius Flaccus retiring thyself character Please not thyself the flattering crowd to hear; Aulus Persius Flaccus crowds soul art Things fit only to give weight to smoke. Aulus Persius Flaccus fit weight giving Each man has his fancy. Aulus Persius Flaccus fancy men Check disease in its approach. Aulus Persius Flaccus checks approach disease Confined to common life thy numbers flow, Aulus Persius Flaccus powerful numbers sweet Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept in cedar oil to latest times, to leave behind him rhymes that dread neither herrings nor frankincense. Aulus Persius Flaccus oil men people 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. Aulus Persius Flaccus nemo views trying Indulge, and to thy genius freely give, Aulus Persius Flaccus genius ease giving Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter Aulus Persius Flaccus hunger teacher art And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own. Aulus Persius Flaccus opinion For Yesterday was once To-morrow. Aulus Persius Flaccus morrow procrastination yesterday Quantum est in rebus inane! How much folly there is in human affairs. Aulus Persius Flaccus quantum folly affair