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Wherever the speech is corrupted the mind is also. - [Evil] While we are postponing, life speeds by. - [Life] Why does no man confess his vices? Because he is yet in them; it is for a waking man to tell his dream. - [Confession] Why is there no man who confesses his vices? It is because he has not yet laid them aside. It is a waking man only who can tell his dreams. - [Vice] Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes. - [Proverbs] Wisdom comes to no one by chance. - [Wisdom] With parsimony a little is sufficient; and without it nothing is sufficient; whereas frugality makes a poor man rich. - [Economy] Wouldst thou subject all things to thyself? Subject thyself to reason. - [Reason] You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation. - [Obligation] To err is human. [Lat., Humanum est errare.] - bk. IV, Declam. 3 [Error : Proverbs] No one tries extreme remedies at first. [Lat., Extrema primo nemo tentavit loco.] - Agamemnon (153) [Extremes] It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent. [Lat., Nam sera nunquam est ad bonos mores via. Quem peonitet peccasse, paene est innocens.] - Agamemnon (242) [Repentance] Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money. [Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.] - Agamemnon (287) [Fidelity] Fear of death drives the wretched to prayer. [Lat., In vota miseros ultimus cogit timor.] - Agamemnon (560) [Prayer] We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep for. [Lat., Levia perpessi sumus Si flenda patimur.] - Agamemnon (665) [Suffering] Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. [Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.] - Agamemnon (934) [Fidelity] Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down. [Lat., Quidquid in altum, fortune tulit, ruitura levat.] - Agamemnon (C) [Fortune] Every delay is too long to one who is in a hurry. [Lat., Omnis nimium longa properanti mora est.] - Agamemnon (CCCCXXVI) [Delay] We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored. [Lat., Periere mores, jus, decus, pietas, fides, Et qui redire nescit, cum perit, pudor.] - Agamemnon (CXII) [Loss] The way to wickedness is always through wickedness. - Agamemnon (CXV) [Evil] What reason could not avoid, has often been cured by delay. [Lat., Quod ratio nequiit, saepe sanavit mora.] - Agamemnon (CXXX) [Delay] Fortune turns on her wheel the fate of kings. [Lat., Praecipites regum casus Fortuna rotat.] - Agamemnon (LXXI) [Fortune] Nothing is void of God; He Himself fills His work. [Lat., Nihil ab illo [i.e., a Deo] vacat; opus suum ipse implet.] - De Beneficiis, IV, 8 [God] [Man] is a social animal. [Lat., Sociale animal est.] - De Beneficiis (bk. VII, 1) [Society] Nobody makes an entry of his good deeds in his day-book. [Lat., Nemo beneficia in calendario scribit.] - De Beneficiis (I, 2) [Deeds] Displaying page 13 of 22 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
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