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To counsel others, and to disregard one's own safety, is folly. - [Proverbs] Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them. - [Proverbs] Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth. - [Fraud] Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. - [Wisdom] Witty remarks are all very well when spoken at a proper time: when out of place they are offensive. - [Proverbs] Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind. [Lat., Non semper ea sunt, quae videntur; decipit Frons prima multos; rara mens intelligit Quod interiore condidit cura angulo.] - bk. IV, prol. 5 [Appearance] Opportunity has hair on her forehead, but is bald behind. If you meet her seize her, for once let slip, Jove himself cannot catch her again. [Lat., Occasio prima sui parte comosa, posteriore calva Quam si occupasis, teneas elapsum Non isse possit Jupiter reprehendre.] - bk. V, fable 8 [Opportunity] Endure this evil lest a worse come upon you. [Lat., Hoc sustinete, majus ne neniat malum.] - Fables (bk. I, 2, 31) [Evil] Out of breath to no purpose, in doing much doing nothing. A race (of busybodies) hurtful to itself and most hateful to all others. [Lat., Gratis anhelans, multa agendo nihil agens. Sibi molesta, et aliis odiosissima.] - Fables (bk. II, 5, 3) [Nothingness] You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched. [Lat., Cito rumpes arcum, semper si tensum habueris.] - Fables (bk. III, 14) [Prudence] I am in search of a man. [Lat., Hominem quaero.] - Fables (bk. III, 19, 9) [Man] He carried and nourished in his breast a snake, tender-hearted against his own interest. [Lat., Colubram sustulit Sinuque fovet, contra se ipse misericors.] - Fables (bk. IV, 18) [Kindness] For life is nearer every day to death. [Lat., Nam vita morti propior est quotidie.] - Fables (bk. IV, 25, 10) [Death] Jupiter has placed upon us two wallets. Hanging behind each person's back he has given one full of his own faults; in front he has hung a heavy one full of other people's. [Lat., Peras imposuit Jupiter nobis duas. Propriis repletam vitiis post tergum dedit; Alienis ante pectus supendit gravem.] - Fables (bk. IV, 9, 1) [Faults] A coward boasting of his courage may deceive strangers, but he is a laughing-stock to those who know him. [Lat., Virtutis expers verbis jactans gloriam Ignotos fallit, notis est derisui.] - Fables (I, 11, 1) [Cowards] They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late repentance. [Lat., Qu se laudari gaudent verbis subdolis, Sera dant peonas turpes poenitentia.] - Fables (I, 13, 1) [Flattery] In a change of government the poor change nothing but the name of their masters. [Lat., In principatu commutando civium Nil praeter domini nomen mutant pauperes.] - Fables (I, 15, 1) [Government] The smooth speeches of the wicked are full of treachery. [Lat., Habent insidias hominis blanditiae mali.] - Fables (I, 19, 1) [Deceit] Whoever has fallen from his former high estate is in his calamity the scorn even of the base. [Lat., Quicumque amisit dignitatem pristinam Ignavis etiam jocus est in casu gravi.] - Fables (I, 21, 1) [Misfortune] The poor, trying to imitate the powerful, perish. [Lat., Inops, potentem dum vult imitari, perit.] - Fables (I, 24, 1) [Poverty] Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains and are laughed to scorn. [Lat., Consilia qui dant prava cautis hominibus, Et perdunt operam et deridentur tupiter.] - Fables (I, 25) [Advice] Every one ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct. [Lat., Sua quisque exempla debet aequo animo pati.] - Fables (I, 26, 12) [Patience] A partnership with men in power is never safe. [Lat., Nunquam est fidelis cum potente societas.] - Fables (I, 5, 1) [Power] O that such beauty should be so devoid of understanding! [Lat., O quanta species cerebrum non habet!] - Fables (I, 7, 2) [Beauty] True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves. [Lat., Verum est aviditas dives, et pauper pudor.] - Fables (II, 1, 12) [Covetousness] Displaying page 2 of 3 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3
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