Ausonius
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"Decimus Magnus Ausonius" was a Latin literature/Roman poet and Roman education/teacher of classical rhetoric/rhetoric from Burdigala in Gallia Aquitania/Aquitaine, modern Bordeaux, France. For a time he was tutor to the future emperor Gratian, who afterwards bestowed the Roman consul/consulship on him. His best-known poems are Mosella, a description of the river Moselle, and Ephemeris, an account of a typical day in his life. His many other verses show his concern for his family, friends, teachers, and circle of well-to-do acquaintances and his delight in the technical handling of poetic meter/meter.

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He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

Truth is the mother of hatred.

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read.

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.