Aurum Quotes & Sayings

We're fine.'
A few feet away, Aurum snarled quietly, which meant Nico was lying. — Rick Riordan

A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.
[Lat., Bono ingenio me esse ornatam, quam auto multo mavolo.
Aurum fortuna invenitur, natura ingenium donum.
Bonam ego, quam beatam me esse nimio dici mavolo. — Plautus

Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. — Seneca.

The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, - the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow