Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality...
PetroniusWe trained hard—but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
PetroniusNam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σίβυλλα τί θέλεις; respondebat illa: ἀποθανεῖν θέλω.
For with my own eyes I saw Sibyl hanging in a jar, and when the young boys asked her, 'Sibyl, what do you want?', she replied, 'I want to die.
Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb?
PetroniusTag: stupidity humour latin irony ancient nonsense text satyre the-satyricon trimalchio
I saw with my own eyes the Sibyl of Cumae hanging in a jar, and when the boys said to her, Sibyl, what do you want? she replied I want to die.
PetroniusEveryone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.
Petroniusutres inflati ambulamus. minoris quam muscae sumus, muscae tamen aliquam uirtutem habent, nos non pluris sumus quam bullae.
PetroniusTag: latin petronius satyricon
I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there
PetroniusTag: education education-system
I myself have seen with my own eyes the sybil hanging in a bottle at Cumae. And when the little boys asked her "Sybil, what do you want?" she said, "I want to die.
PetroniusOutward looks are not enough,
Beauty is not common stuff-
Of merriment it is compact,
Playful grace in every act,
Witty laughter, laughing wit:
These are things that go with it,
These surpass the simple graces
In beautiful and silly faces.
Art is beauty; and I say:
Take the lovely fool away!-
If she strips from foot to head
And doesn't ask me into bed.
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