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Let me have a three-legged table, a dish of salt, and a cloak which, althou' coarse, will keep off the cold. [Lat., Sit mihi mensa tripes et Coucha salis puri et toga quae defendere frigus Quamvis crassa queat.] - Satires (I, 3, 13) [Contentment] It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. [Lat., Aequum est Peccatis veniam poscentem reddere rursus.] - Satires (I, 3, 74) [Forgiveness] Too indolent to bear the toil of writing; I mean of writing well; I say nothing about quantity. [Lat., Piger scribendi ferre laborem; Scribendi recte, nam ut multum nil moror.] - Satires (I, 4, 12) [Authorship] As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice. [Lat., Avidos vicinum funus ut aegros Exanimat, mortisque metu sibi parcere cogit; Sic teneros animos aliena opprobria saepe Absterrent vitiis.] - Satires (I, 4, 126) [Example] He has hay on his horns. [Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.] - Satires (I, 4, 34) [Anger] When discord dreadful bursts her brazen bars, And shatter locks to thunder forth her wars. [Lat., Postquam Discordia tetra Belli ferratos postes portasque refregit.] - Satires (I, 4, 60), quoted, original not known but thought to be from Ennius [War] The scattered remnants of the poet. [Lat., Disjecti membra poetae.] - Satires (I, 4, 62) [Poets] If I smile at the strong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natured? [Lat., Ego si risi quod ineptus Pastillos Rufillus olet, Gargonius hircum, lividus et mordax videar?] - Satires (I, 4, 91) [Envy] The Jew Apella may belief this, not I. [Lat., Credat Judaeus Appella non ego.] - Satires (I, 5, 100) [Belief] A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.] - Satires (I, 5, 32) [Man] Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car. [Lat., Fulgente trahit constrictos Gloria curru Non minus ignotos generosis.] - Satires (I, 6, 23) [Glory] He is a dangerous fellow, keep clear of him. (That is: he has hay on his horns, showing he is dangerous.) [Lat., Faenum habet in cornu, longe fuge.] - Satires (I, IV, 34) [Prudence] The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating? - Satires (II, 2) [Eating] Like as a wise man in time of peace prepares for war. [Lat., In pace ut sapiens aptarit idonea bello.] - Satires (II, 2, 111) [Peace] A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.] - Satires (II, 2, 38) [Eating] A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things. [Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.] - Satires (II, 2, 6) [Mind] The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath. [Lat., Quin corpus onustum Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque praegravat una Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.] - Satires (II, 2, 77) [Mind] A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth. [Lat., Male verum examinat omnis Corruptus judex.] - Satires (II, 2, 8) [Judges] The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.] - Satires (II, 3, 103) [Difficulties] He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [Lat., Nimirum insanus paucis videatur, eo quod Maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem.] - Satires (II, 3, 120) [Insanity] That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. [Lat., Vitanda est improba--desidia.] - Satires (II, 3, 14) [Idleness : Sloth] Who then is sane? He who is not a fool. [Lat., Quisnam igitur sanus? Qui non stultus.] - Satires (II, 3, 158) [Insanity] I attend to the business of other people, having lost my own. [Lat., Aliena negotia curo, Excussus propriis.] - Satires (II, 3, 19) [Business] A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.] - Satires (II, 3, 243) [Nobility] To your folly add bloodshed, and stir the fire with the sword. [Lat., Adde cruorem Stultitiae, atque ignem gladio scrutare.] - Satires (II, 3, 275) [Folly] Displaying page 24 of 25 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 [24] 25
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