Aulus Gellius Quotes

• Truth is the daughter of time.

  Aulus Gellius

  Life, Daughter, Truth

  Aulus Gellius (1795). “The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius”, p.358

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• The spirits increase, vigor grows through a wound.

  Aulus Gellius

  Vigor, Spirit, Increase

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• Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip.

  Aulus Gellius

  Cups, Lips, Fortune

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 289-93, Translation of Greek Proverb, Book XIII. 17. 3, 1922.

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• A man should be religious, not superstitious.

  Aulus Gellius

  Religious, Men, Should

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• I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher. -Video barbam et pallium; philosophum nondum video

  Aulus Gellius

  Philosophy, Video, Beard

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• There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said Truth is the daughter of Time.
  [Lat., Alius quidam veterum poetarum cuius nomen mihi nunc memoriae non est veritatem temporis filiam esse dixit.]

  Aulus Gellius

  Daughter, Truth, Names

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• I do not buy repentance at so heavy a cost as a thousand drachmae.

  Aulus Gellius

  Cost, Repentance, Heavy

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• Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

  Aulus Gellius

  Daughter, Memories, Names

  Aulus Gellius (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Aulus Gellius - 'The Attic Nights' (Illustrated)”, p.337, Delphi Classics

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