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A crime in which many are implicated goes unpunished. - [Proverbs] Avoid delays: procrastination always does harm. - [Proverbs] By daring, great fears are concealed. - [Daring] Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring. - [Proverbs] Great things rush to the destruction of each other. - [Proverbs] He puts his boot on his head, and his foot in his helmet. - [Proverbs] He stands the shadow of a mighty name. [Lat., Stat magni nominis umbra.] - [Names : Proverbs] Idleness induces caprice. - [Proverbs] In a state of anarchy power is the measure of right. - [Anarchy] Patience revels in misfortunes. - [Proverbs] Regarding nothing as done, while ought remained to be done. - [Proverbs] Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. - [Ancestry] The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the utmost danger. - [Proverbs] The shadow of a mighty name. - [Proverbs] Thou chiefest good, Bestow'd by heaven, but seldom understood. - [Health] Villany reduces those whom it defiles to the same level. - [Proverbs] Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity? - [Proverbs] With bated breath we offer wicked vows. - [Proverbs] The victorious cause pleased the gods, but the victory pleased Cato. [Lat., Victrix cause Diis placuit, sed victa Catoni.] - Pharsalia (1, 118) [Victory] And rejoicing that he has made his way by ruin. [Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.] - Pharsalia (bk. I, 150), referring to Julius Caesar [Ruin] Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done. [Lat., Nil actum credens, dum quid superesset agendum.] - Pharsalia (bk. II, 657) [Nothingness] The liberty of the people, he says, whom power restrains unduly, perishes through liberty. [Lat., Libertas, inquit, populi quem regna coercent, Libertate perit.] - Pharsalia (bk. III, 146) [Liberty] Has God any habitation except earth, and sea, and air, and heaven, and virtue? Why do we seek the highest beyond these? Jupiter is wheresoever you look, wheresoever you move. [Lat., Estne Dei sedes nisi terra, et pontus, et aer, Et coelum, et virtus? Superos quid quaerimus ultra? Jupiter est, quodcunque vides, quodcunque moveris.] - Pharsalia (bk. IX, 578) [Gods] He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn. [Lat., Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.] - Pharsalia (bk. VII, 831) [Monuments] He was spurred on by rival valor. [Lat., Stimulos dedit aemula virtus.] - Pharsalia (I, 120) [Valor] Displaying page 1 of 3 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3
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