Sidonius Apollinaris Quotes

These are the men whom even they fear who are themselves feared.

O neccessitas abiecta nascendi, vivendi misera dura moriendi.

Ex hoc barbaricis abacta plectris
spernit senipedem stilum Thalia,
ex quo septipedes videt patronos.

Hi sunt, quos timent etiam qui timentur.

For the man who considers himself the best critic generally studies sound and unsound composition with equal interest, being no more greedy for lofty utterances to praise than for contemptible ones to ridicule. In this way technique, grandeur, and propriety in the use of the Latin language are particularly underrated by the armchair critics, who, with an insensibility which goes hand in hand with scurrility, and wishing to read only what they may criticize, cannot, by their very abuse of literature, be making a proper use of it.

Mors obruit illos,
non timor; invicti perstant animoque supersunt
jam prope post animam.