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Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit. [Lat., Principiis obsta: sero medicina paratur, Cum mala per longas convaluere moras.] - Remedia Amoris (XCI) [Beginnings] In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.] - Tristia (4, 6, 1) [Education] The least strength suffices to break what is bruised. [Lat., Minimae vires frangere quassa valent.] - Tristia (bk. III, 11, 22) [Strength] I am a barbarian here, because I am not understood by anyone. [Lat., Barbarus his ego sum, quia non intelligor ulli.] - Tristia (bk. V, 10, 37) [Speech] This also, that I live, I consider a gift of God. [Lat., Id quoque, quod vivam, munus habere die.] - Tristium (I, 1, 20) [Life] The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts. [Lat., Judicis officium est ut res ita tempora rerum Quaerere.] - Tristium (I, 1, 37) [Judges] The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.] - Tristium (I, 1, 75) [Fear] Wherever you look there is nothing but the image of death. [Lat., Quocunque adspicias, nihil est nisi mortis imago.] - Tristium (I, 2, 23) [Death] The deeds of men never escape the gods. [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.] - Tristium (I, 2, 97) [Deeds] As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity. [Lat., Scilicet ut fulvum spectatur in ignibus aurum Tempore in duro est inspicienda fides.] - Tristium (I, 5, 25) [Friendship] The rest of the crowd were friends of my fortune, not of me. [Lat., Caetera fortunae, non mea, turba fuit.] - Tristium (I, 5, 34) [Friends] As long as you are fortunate you will have many friends, but if times become cloudy you will be alone. [Lat., Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; Tempora si fuerint nubila solus eris.] - Tristium (I, 9, 5) [Fortune] Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth. [Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.] - Tristium (I, 9, 9) [Poverty] All things can corrupt perverse minds. [Lat., Omnia perversas possunt corrumpere mentes.] - Tristium (II, 301) [Evil] If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts. [Lat., Si quoties homines peccant sua fulmina mittat Jupiter, exiguo tempore inermis erit.] - Tristium (II, 33) [Sin] As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense. [Lat., Sed tamen ut fuso taurorum sanguine centum, Sic capitur minimo thuris honore deux.] - Tristium (II, 75) [God] In an easy cause any man may be eloquent. [Lat., In causa facili cuivis licet esse diserto.] - Tristium (III, 11, 21) [Eloquence] He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. [Lat., Bene qui latuit, bene vixit.] - Tristium (III, 4, 25) [Obscurity] Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.] - Tristium (III, 4, 26) [Fortune] May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.] - Tristium (III, 4, 43) [Contentment] If God be appeased, I can not be wretched. [Lat., Placato possum non miser esse deo.] - Tristium (III, 40) [Resignation] Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers. [Lat., Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis.] - Tristium (III, 8, 25) [Disease] It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears. [Lat., Est quaedam flete voluptas; Expletur lacyrmis egeriturque dolor.] - Tristium (IV, 3, 37) [Tears] The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra; malique In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.] - Tristium (IV, 6, 43) [Mind] Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God. [Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit Non sit ut inferius suppositumque deo.] - Tristium (IV, 8, 47) [God] Displaying page 16 of 17 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 [16] 17
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