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For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love. - Satire XV (l. 203) [Humanity] The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled. - Satires (bk. II) [Peace] It is difficult not to write satire. [Lat., Difficile est satiram non scribere.] - Satires (I, 29) [Satire] Virtue is praised and freezes. [Lat., Probitas laudatur et alget.] - Satires (I, 74) [Virtue] Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.] - Satires (I, 79) [Poetry] The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book. [Lat., Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.] - Satires (I, I, 85) [Books] In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.] - Satires (II, 11) [Eating] Their conversation was brief, and their desire was to be silent. [Lat., Rarus sermo illis et magna libido tacenti.] - Satires (II, 14) [Silence] Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those who denounce what they do themselves.) [Lat., Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditone querentes?] - Satires (II, 24) [Faults] No one ever became thoroughly bad all at once. [Lat., Nemo repente venit turpissimus.] - Satires (II, 33) [Character] There is great unanimity among the dissolute. [Lat., Magna inter molles concordia.] - Satires (II, 47) [Evil] The verdict acquits the raven, but condemns the dove. [Lat., Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas.] - Satires (II, 63) [Law] Trust not to outward show. [Lat., Fronti nulla fides.] - Satires (II, 8) [Appearance] The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.] - Satires (II, 81) [Grapes] Every man's credit is proportioned to the money which he has in his chest. [Lat., Quantum quisque sua nummorum condit in area, Tantum habet et fidei.] - Satires (III, 143) [Money] They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.] - Satires (III, 164) [Poverty] Here we all live in ambitious poverty. [Lat., Hic vivimus ambitiosa Paupertate omnes.] - Satires (III, 182) [Poverty] With thumb turned. [Lat., Verso pollice.] - Satires (III, 36) [Judgment] Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. [Lat., Ex humili magna ad fastigia rerum Extollit, quoties voluit fortuna jocari.] - Satires (III, 39) [Forgiveness] Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.] - Satires (III, 78) [Hunger] The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one. [Lat., Adulandi gens prudentissima laudat Sermonem indocti, faciem deformis amici.] - Satires (III, 86) [Flattery] O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind. - Satires (III, l. 226), (Gifford's translation) [Poverty] Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.] - Satires (III, V, 152) [Poverty] Would to heaven he had given up to trifles like these all the time which he devoted to cruelty. [Lat., Atque utinam his potius nugis tota illa dedisset Tempora saevitiae.] - Satires (IV, 150) [Trifles] There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods. [Lat., Nihil est quod credere de se Non possit, quum laudatur dis aequa potestas.] - Satires (IV, 70) [Power] Displaying page 8 of 11 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [8] 9 10 11
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