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Grammarian, Orator, Geometrician; Painter, Gymnastic Teacher, Physicia
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Grammarian, orator, geometrician; painter, gymnastic teacher, physician;
fortune-teller, rope-dancer, conjuror,--he knew everything.
-- Juvenal (47-138 AD)
-- Satire iii, 76
Related:
Nobility is the one only virtue. -- Juvenal (47-138 AD) -- Satire viii, 20
No man ever became extremely wicked all at once. -- Juvenal (47-138 AD) -- Satire ii, 83
A fortune teller offers to read your face
He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.
-- Pilpay (or Bidpai) -- The Ignorant Physician, Chap. iii, Fable viii...
It's not expensive to go to a fortune teller, they usually charge medium prices.
He is a good orator who convinces himself.
A faultless body and a blameless mind.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book iii, Line 138...
The images of twenty of the most illustrious families--the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour--were carried before it [the bier of Junia].
Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed; but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre....
He was as sincere as a tap dancer's smile. -- Morey Amsterdam