The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Live with yourself: get to know how poorly furnished you are.
‘Satires’ no. 4, l. 52
4.47 Marshal Pètain (Henri Philippe Pètain) 1856-1951
To write one’s memoirs is to speak ill of everybody except oneself.
In ‘Observer’ 26 May 1946
4.48 Laurence Peter 1919—and Raymond Hull
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
‘The Peter Principle’ (1969) ch. 1
4.49 Petronius (Petronius Arbiter) d. A.D. 65
Canis ingens, catena vinctus, in pariete erat pictus superque quadrata littera scriptum ‘Cave
canem.’
A huge dog, tied by a chain, was painted on the wall and over it was written in capital letters
‘Beware of the dog.’
‘Satyricon’ ‘Cena Trimalchionis’ ch. 29, sect. 1
Abiit ad plures.
He’s gone to join the majority [the dead].
‘Satyricon’ ‘Cena Trimalchionis’ ch. 42, sect. 5
Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri
dicerent: ‘Σιβυλλα τ• θ•λ•ισ’ respondebat illa ‘•ποθανε•ν θ•λω’.
‘I saw the Sibyl at Cumae’
(One said) ‘with mine own eye.
She hung in a cage, and read her rune
To all the passers-by.
Said the boys, “What wouldst thou, Sibyl?”
She answered, “I would die.”’
‘Satyricon’ ‘Cena Trimalchionis’ ch. 48, sect. 8 (translation by D. G. Rossetti)
Horatii curiosa felicitas.
Horace’s careful felicity.
‘Satyricon’ ch. 118, sect. 5
Foeda est in coitu et brevis voluptas
Et taedet Veneris statim peractae.
Delight of lust is gross and brief
And weariness treads on desire.
In A. Baehrens ‘Poetae Latinae Minores’ (1882) vol. 4, no. 101 (translated by Helen Waddell)
4.50 Pheidippides (or Philippides) d. 490 B.C.