Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Persius (Roman Poet)

Persius (34–62 CE,) properly Aulus Perslus Flaccus, was a Roman Stoic poet whose Latin Satires reached a higher ethical tenor than those of other classical Latin poets except for Juvenal.

Persius was born in Volterra, Etruria, Central Italy, of an eminent equestrian family, and was educated in Rome, where he came under Stoic influence. A pupil and friend of the philosopher Lucius Annaeus Cornutus and a fellow student of the poet Lucan, Persius discovered his vocation as a satirist through reading the 10th book of Gaius Lucilius.

Persius wrote painstakingly and sparingly, leaving behind, upon his premature death, only six good satires, the aggregate not exceeding 650 hexameter lines. His friends Cornutus and Caesius Bassus edited and published to immediate success.

Persius’s first satire scorns literary tastes of the day, revealing the decadence of national morals. The remaining books are philosophical deliberations on themes often examined by Seneca, such as what may justifiably be asked of the gods, the need of self-knowledge for public men, and the Stoic principle of self-determination.

Persius’s Satires were emulated by John Donne and translated by John Dryden.

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Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing.
Persius
Topics: Creativity

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
Persius
Topics: Desire

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
Persius
Topics: Freedom

How much folly there is in human affairs.
Persius

He conquers who endures.
Persius
Topics: Persistence, Perseverance, Endurance

Oh, what a void there is in things.
Persius
Topics: Consumerism

Unhappy he who does his work adjourn, and to tomorrow would the search delay: his lazy morrow will be like today.
Persius
Topics: Procrastination

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.
Persius
Topics: Worry

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