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Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing. [Lat., Vile latens virtus.] - De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti Panegyris (222) [Virtue] The fickle populace always change with the prince. [Lat., Mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgus.] - De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti Panegyris (CCCII) [Public] Do not consider what you may do, but what it will become you to have done, and let the sense of honor subdue your mind. [Lat., Nec tibi quid liceat, sed quid fecisse decebit Occurrat, mentemque domet respectus honesti.] - De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti Panegyris (CCLXVII) [Honor] The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler. [Lat., Componitur orbis Regis ad exemplum; nec sic inflectere sensus Humanos edicta valent, quam vita regentis.] - De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti Panegyris (CCXCIX) [Example] The people become more observant of justice, and do not refuse to submit to the laws when they see them obeyed by their enactor. [Lat., Observantior aequi Fit populus, nec ferre negat, cum viderit ipsum Auctorem parere sibi.] - De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augusti Panegyris (CCXCVII) [Justice] The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. [Lat., Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores.] - De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augustii Panegyris (305) [Nobility] Death levels all things. [Lat., Omnia mors aequant.] - De Raptu Proserpinoe (II, 302) [Death] Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth. [Lat., Teneris, heu, lubrica moribus aetas!] - De Raptu Proserpinoe (III, 227) [Youth] Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy. [Lat., Rabiem livoris acerbi Nulla potest placare quies.] - De Raptu Proserpinoe (III, 290) [Envy] A severe war lurks under the show of peace. [Lat., Mars gravior sub pace latet.] - De Sexto Consulatu Honorii Augustsi Panegyris (307) [Peace] Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fors juvat audentes.] - Epistles (IV, 9) [Fortune] Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position. [Lat., Asperius nihil est humil cum surgit in altum.] - In Eutropium (I, 181) [Change] The afflictions to which we are accustomed, do not disturb us. - In Eutropium (II, 149) [Affliction] They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall. [Lat., Tolluntur in altum Ut lapsu gaviore ruant.] - In Rufinum (bk. I, 22) [Fate] Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction. [Lat., Eheu! quam brevibus pereunt ingentia fatis.] - In Rufinum (II, 49) [Fortune] What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew. [Lat., Quod tantis Romana manus contexuit annis Proditur unus iners angusto tempore vertit.] - In Rufinum (II, 52) [Rome] Displaying page 2 of 2 for this author: << Prev 1 [2]
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