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Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire. [Lat., Tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.] - Epistles (I, 18, 84) [Fire] To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit.] - Epistles (I, 18, 86) [Friends] The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful. [Lat., Oderunt hilarem tristes tristemque jocosi.] - Epistles (I, 18, 89) [Sorrow] I court not the votes of the fickle mob. [Lat., Non ego ventosae plebis suffragia venor.] - Epistles (I, 19, 37) [Politics : Voting] Hence these tears. [Lat., Hinc illae lacrymae.] - Epistles (I, 19, 41) [Tears] Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.] - Epistles (I, 2, 14) [Royalty] Dare to be wise. [Lat., Sapere aude.] - Epistles (I, 2, 40) [Wisdom] What's well begun, is half done. [Lat., Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.] - Epistles (I, 2, 40) [Beginnings] He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses); but it glides on and will glide forever. [Lat., Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.] - Epistles (I, 2, 41) [Life] Let him who has enough ask for nothing more. [Lat., Quod satis est cui contigit, nihil amplius optet.] - Epistles (I, 2, 46) [Contentment] Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious. [Lat., Sperne voluptates; nocet empta dolora voluptas.] - Epistles (I, 2, 55) [Pleasure] The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants. [Lat., Invidus alterius marescit rebus opimis; Invidia Siculi non invenere tyranni Majus tormentus.] - Epistles (I, 2, 57) [Envy] Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. [Lat., Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.] - Epistles (I, 2, 62) [Anger] If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year. [Lat., Quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum.] - Epistles (I, 238) [Mind] Now, that's enough. [Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.] - Epistles (I, 5, 12) [Satisfaction] Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it? [Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?] - Epistles (I, 5, 12) [Money] What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. [Lat., Quid non ebrietas designat? Operta recludit; Spes jubet esse ratas; in praelia trudit inermem.] - Epistles (I, 5, 16) [Intemperance] Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.] - Epistles (I, 5, 19) [Proverbs : Wine and Spirits] Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor. [Lat., Quidquid sub terra est, in apricum proferet aetas; Defodiet condetque nitentia.] - Epistles (I, 6, 24) [Time] All powerful money gives birth and beauty. [Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.] - Epistles (I, 6, 37) [Money] If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes. [Lat., Si sine amore, jocisque Nil est jucundum, vivas in amore jocisque.] - Epistles (I, 6, 65) [Love] If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me. [Lat., Si quid novisti rectius istis. Candidus imperti, si non, his utere mecum.] - Epistles (I, 6, 67) [Knowledge] Humble things become the humble. [Lat., Parvum parva decent.] - Epistles (I, 7, 44) [Humility] Every man should measure himself by his own standard. [Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.] - Epistles (I, 7, 98) [Man] Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.] - Epistles (II, 1, 115) [Business] Displaying page 21 of 25 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 23 24 25
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