“Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta suppellex. Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there.”
Quotes by Persius
“Does your knowing a thing go so far for nothing unless another person knows that you know it?”
“Learn whom God has ordered you to be, and in what part of human affairs you have been placed.”
PersiusPersius, a Roman poet of the Silver Age, was renowned for his satirical verse that critiqued the moral decay of Roman society. Born in 34 AD in the province of Etruria, he was educated in Rome, where ...