Top 10 Persius Quotes

Nostrum est
quod vivis, cinis et manes et fabula fies.
vive memor leti, fugit hora.

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.

Cum lux altera venit,
iam cras hesternum consumpsimus; ecce aliud cras
egerit hos annos et semper paulum erit ultra.

Live with yourself: get to know how poorly furnished you are.

Tecum habita: noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.

Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere! nemo!
Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.

Virtutem videant intabescantque relicta.

Nec nocte paratum,
plorabit qui me volet incurvasse querella.

At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier "hic est".

Is all your knowledge to go so utterly for nothing unless other people know that you possess it?