Ausonius Quotes
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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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“If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.”
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“Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.”
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“No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.”
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“When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.”
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“The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.”
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“The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.”
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“Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.”
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“That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.”
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“As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.”