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A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment. [Lat., Res severa est verum gaudium.] - Epistles (XXIII, 3, 4) [Enjoyment] Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. [Lat., Amicitia semper prodest, amor etiam aliquando nocet.] - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium [Friendship] It is not goodness to be better than the very worst. [Lat., Bonitas non est pessimis esse meliorem.] - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium [Goodness] Men's conversation is like their life. [Lat., Talis hominibus est oratio qualis vita.] - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (114) [Speech] Among other evils folly has also this, that it is always beginning to live. [Lat., Inter caetera mala hoc quoque habet Stultitia semper incipit vivere.] - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (13) [Folly] Dignity increases more easily than it begins. [Lat., Facilius crescit dignitas quam incipit.] - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (CI) [Dignity] Make haste to live, and consider each day a life. [Lat., Propra vivere et singulos dies singulas vitas puta.] - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (CI) [Life] No age is shut against great genius. [Lat., Nullum saeculum magnis ingeniis clausum est.] - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (CII) [Genius] This day, which thou fearest as thy last, is the birthday of eternity. [Lat., Dies iste, quem tamquam extremum reformidas, aeterni natilis est.] - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (CII) [Death] If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions. [Lat., Si velis vitiis exui, longe a vitiorum exemplis recedendum est.] - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (CIV) [Evil] The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling. [Lat., Fata volemtem ducunt, nolentem trahunt.] - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (CVII) [Fate] Old age is an incurable disease. [Lat., Senectus insanabilis morbus est.] - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (CVIII, 29) [Age] Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself. [Lat., Natura semina scientiae nobis dedit, scientiam non dedit.] - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (CXX) [Knowledge] This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. [Lat., Non domus hoc corpus sed hospitium et quidem breve.] - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (CXX) [Life] Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late. [Lat., Sera parsimonia in fundo est.] - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (I) [Economy] He who is everywhere is nowhere. [Lat., Nusquam est, qui ubique est.] - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (II) [Traveling] Not he who has little, but he who wishes for more, is poor. [Lat., Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit, pauper est.] - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (II) [Poverty] A multitude of books distracts the mind. [Lat., Distrahit animum librorum multitudo.] - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (II, 3) [Books] If you wish to be loved, love. [Lat., Si vis amari, ama.] - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (IX) [Love] Fortune cannot take away what she did not give. [Lat., Quid non dedit fortuna non eripit.] - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (LIX) [Fortune] Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly. [Lat., Ante senectutem curavi ut bene viverem, in senectute (curo) ut bene moriar; bene autem mori est libenter mori.] - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (LXI) [Life] To live is not a blessing, but to live well. [Lat., Non vivere bonum est, sed bene vivere.] - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (LXX) [Life] Let that please man which has pleased God. [Lat., Placeat homini quidquid deo placuit.] - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (LXXIV) [Resignation] No man was ever wise by chance. [Lat., Nulli sapere casu obtigit.] - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (LXXVI) [Wisdom] Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. [Lat., Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insania.] - Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (LXXXIII) [Intemperance : Proverbs] Displaying page 17 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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