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Suffektkonsul, Hofmarschall, Schriftsteller, geißelte die Sitten der Nero-Zeit in "Satyrica" (Rom, 10 - 66).

Gaius Petronius Arbiter · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Geboren am 01.01.0010 in Rom
Gestorben am 31.12.0066 in Rom
Sternzeichen: ♑ Steinbock

• A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.

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• Delight of lust is gross and brief And weariness treads on desire.

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• From a man's face, I can read his character; if I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.

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• He hath joined the great majority.

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• He's gone to join the majority [the dead].

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• Horace's careful felicity.

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• It is fear that first brought gods into the world.

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• The mind longs for what it has missed.

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• We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams, we would be 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 producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

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• A capillo usque ad ungues.

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• Asinus in tegulis.

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• Calcem impingere.

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• Cave canem!

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• Cum insanientibus furere necesse est.

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• Dices hic porcos coctos ambulare.

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• Domi leones, foris vulpes.

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• Fervet olla, vivit amicitia.

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• Hic porci cocti ambulant.

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• In alium quendam orbem delatus sibi videbatur.

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• In manu illius plumbum aurum fit.

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