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Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears. [Lat., Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris.] - Satires (XIII, 134) [Money] Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools. [Lat., At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa nempe hoc indocti.] - Satires (XIII, 180) [Revenge] Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. [Lat., Semper et infirmi est animi exiguique voluptas Ultio.] - Satires (XIII, 189) [Revenge] No one rejoices more in revenge than woman. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina.] - Satires (XIII, 191) [Revenge] The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.] - Satires (XIII, 191) [Women] By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.] - Satires (XIII, 2) [Crime] Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.] - Satires (XIII, 20) [Wisdom] For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet.] - Satires (XIII, 209) [Crime] The good, alas! are few: they are scarcely as many as the gates of Thebes or the mouths of the Nile. [Lat., Rari quippe boni: numero vix sunt totidem quot Thebarum portae, vel divitis ostia Nili. - Satires (XIII, 26) [Goodness] The love of money grows as the money itself grows. [Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.] - Satires (XIV, 139) [Money] The love of pelf increases with the pelf. [Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.] - Satires (XIV, 139) [Avarice] He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately. [Lat., Dives fieri qui vult Et cito vult fieri.] - Satires (XIV, 176) [Wealth] Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another. [Lat., Nunquam aliud Natura aliud Sapientia dicit.] - Satires (XIV, 321) [Nature] We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.] - Satires (XIV, 40) [Imitation] Let nothing foul to either eye or ear reach those doors within which dwells a boy. [Lat., Nil dictu visuque haec limina tangat Intra quae puer est.] - Satires (XIV, 44) [Childhood] Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when you, though an old man, do worse things (than your child)? [Lat., Unde tibi frontem libertatemque parentis, Cum facias pejora senex? - Satires (XIV, 56) [Example] Savage bears keep at peace with one another. [Lat., Saevis inter se convenit ursis.] - Satires (XV, 164) [Peace] All arts his own, the hungry Greekling counts; And bid him mount the skies, the skies he mounts. - Third Satire, (translation by Gifford) [Obedience] All sciences a fasting Monsieur knows; And bid him go to hell--to hell he goes. - Third Satire, paraphrased by Johnson in "London" [Obedience] No nice extreme a true Italian knows; But bid him go to hell, to hell he goes. - Third Satire, paraphrased by Phillips in letter to the king about witnesses at Queen Caroline trial [Obedience] Displaying page 11 of 11 for this author: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 [11]
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