Gaius Lucilius Quotes

Publicanus vero ut Asiae fiam, ut scripturarius
pro Lucilio, id ego nolo et uno hoc non muto omnia.

Vivite lurcones, comedones, vivite ventris!

You must undertake a labour that may bring praise and profit for you.

They agree to laws by which the people are outlaws.

Ut Romanus populus victus vei, superatus proeliis
saepe est multis, bello vero numquam, in quo sunt omnia.

Hunc laborem sumas laudem qui tibi ac fructum ferat.

Nunc vero a mani ad noctem festo atque profesto
totus item pariterque die populusque patresque iactare indu foro se omnes, decedere nusquam;
uni se atque eidem studio omnes dedere et arti—
verba dare ut caute possint, pugnare dolose,
blanditia certare, bonum simulare virum se,
insidias facere ut si hostes sint omnibus omnes.

Frédéric Buret, Syphilis To-day and among the Ancients, tr. A. H. Ohmann-Dumesnil, vol. 1 (F. A. Davis, 1891), pp. 179–80

As baby children believe that all bronze statues are alive and are men, so these (superstitious grown-ups) think the fictions of dreams are real, and believe that bronze statues have a living heart inside. These things are a painters' gallery, nothing real, all make-believe.

The Roman people has been often beaten by force and overcome in many battles, but never in a whole war, in which lies all that is vital.

O curas hominum! O quantum est in rebus inane!

Cupiditas ex homine cupido ex stulto numquam tollitur.

This is a little better than middling, that is a little less bad than what you would call the worst.

Ut pueri infantes credunt signa omnia aena
vivere et esse homines, sic isti somnia ficta
vera putant, credunt signis cor inesse in aenis.
Pergula pictorum, veri nil, omnia ficta.

Aurum vis hominemne? Habeas. "Hominem? quid ad aurum?"