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True love hates and will not bear delay. [Lat., Odit verus amor nec patitur moras.] - Hercules Furens (588) [Love] Those things which were hard to bear, are sweet to remember. [Lat., Quae fuit durum pati, Miminisse dulce est.] - Hercules Furens (656) [Sorrow] He who boasts of his descent, praises the deeds of another. [Lat., Qui genue jactat suum Aliena laudat.] - Hercules Furens (act II, 340) [Ancestry] There is no easy way to the stars from the earth. [Lat., Non est ad astra mollis e terris via.] - Hercules Furens (act II, 437) [Stars] The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy. [Lat., Non est ad astra mollis e terris via.] - Hercules Furens (CCCCXXXVII) [Heaven] The first art to be learned by a ruler is to endure envy. [Lat., Ars prima regni posse te invidiam pati.] - Hercules Furens (CCCLIII) [Royalty] The throne of another is not stable for thee. [Lat., Alieno in loco Haud stabile regnum est.] - Hercules Furens (CCCXLIV) [Royalty] Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the impious; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law. [Lat., Prosperum ac felix scelus Virtus vocatur; sontibus patent boni; Jus est in armis, opprimit leges timor.] - Hercules Furens (CCLI) [Crime] Every monarch is subject to a mightier one. [Lat., Omnes sub regno graviore regnum est.] - Hercules Furens (DCXIV) [Royalty] Do you seek Alcide's equal? None is, except himself. [Lat., Quaeris Alcidae parem? Nemo est nisi ipse.] - Hercules Furens (I, 1, 84) [Character] The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. [Lat., Prima quae vitam dedit hora, carpit.] - Hercules Furens (VIII, 74) [Life] Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power. [Lat., Felix, quisquis novit famulum Rogemque pati, Vultusque potest variare suos! Rapuit vires pondusque malis, Casus animo qui tulit aequo.] - Hercules Oetoeus (228) [Fortune] Golden palaces break man's rest, and purple robes cause watchful nights. Oh, if the breasts of the rich could be seen into, what terrors high fortune places within! [Lat., Aurea rumpunt tecta quietem, Vigilesque trahit purpura noctes. O si pateant pectora ditum, Quantos intus sublimis agit Fortuna metus.] - Hercules Oetoeus (646) [Fortune] When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty. [Lat., Semel profecto premere felices deus Cum coepit, urget; hos habent magna exitus.] - Hercules Oetoeus (713) [Prosperity] The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries. [Lat., Miserias properant suas Audire miseri.] - Hercules Oetoeus (754) [Misery] He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will. [Lat., Haud est nocens, quicumque non sponte est nocens.] - Hercules Oetoeus (886) [Guilt] Sometimes death is a punishment; often a gist; it has been a favor to many. [Lat., Interim poena est mori, Sed saepe donum; pluribus veniae fuit.] - Hercules Oetoeus (CMXXX) [Death] Courage leads to heaven; fear, to death. [Lat., Virtus in astra tendit, in mortem timor.] - Hercules Oetoeus (LXXI) [Courage] The swift hour flies on double wings. [Lat., Volat ambiguis Mobilis alis hora.] - Hippolytus (1141) [Time] He who is too powerful, is still aiming at that degree of power with is unattainable. [Lat., Quod non potest vult posse, qui nimium potest.] - Hippolytus (215) [Power] Success makes some crimes honorable. [Lat., Honesta quaedam scelera successus facit.] - Hippolytus (598) [Success] Light griefs are communicative, great ones stupefy. [Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.] - Hippolytus (607) [Grief] Light sorrows speak, but deeper ones are dumb. [Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.] - Hippolytus (607) [Sorrow] If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself. - Hippolytus (876) [Secrecy] Light troubles speak; immense troubles are silent. [Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.] - Hippolytus (act II, sc. 3, l. 607) [Trouble] Displaying page 19 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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