Ausonius Quotes

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If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

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Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

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O maid, while youth is with the rose and thee,
Pluck thou the rose: life is as swift for thee.

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No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.

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Truth is the mother of hatred.

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If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.

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So many lovely things, so rare, so young,
A day begat them, and a day will end.

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When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

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Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.

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Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.

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He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

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Ausonius Biography

Born: 310
Died: 395

Ausonius was a Latin Poet and rhetorician. He was one of the last pagan poets in the Roman Empire, that is to say before it was christened.