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Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men. [Lat., Ignis aurum probat, misera fortes viros.] - De Providentia (V) [Misery] Nothing is more dishonourable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his age. [Lat., Nihil turpius est, quam grandis natu senex, qui nullum aliud habet argumentum, quo se probet diu vixisse, praeter aetatum.] - De Tranquillitate Animi (III, 8) [Age] It is an extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die. [Lat., Ultimum malorum est ex vivorum numero exire antequam moriaris.] - De Tranquillitate Animi (V, v) [Death] There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it. [Lat., Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non aequus animus solatium inveniat.] - De Tranquillitate Animi (X, 4) [Patience] There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness. [Lat., Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.] - De Tranquillitate Animi (XVII, 10) [Insanity] May the earth rest lightly on thee. [Lat., Sit tua terra levis.] - Epigram (II, Ad Corsican) [Epitaphs] And when Solitude leads us into all manner of evil. [Lat., Atque ubi omnia nobis mala solitudo persuadet.] - Epistle (25), quoting Galgacus, leader of the Britains [Solitude] Every change of place becomes a delight. [Lat., Omnis mutatio loci jucunda fiet.] - Epistles (28) [Variety] I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land. [Lat., Non sum uni angulo natus; patria nea totus hic est mundus.] - Epistles (28) [World] It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity. [Lat., Malum est necessitati vivere; sed in necessitate vivere necessitas nulla est.] - Epistles (58) [Necessity] All things are to be hoped by a man as long as he is alive. ("A very effeminate saying.") [Lat., Omnia homini, dum vivit, speranda sunt.] - Epistles (70) [Hope] A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well. [Lat., Parvus pumilio, licet in monte constiterit; colossus magnitudinem suam servabit, etiam si steterit in puteo.] - Epistles (76) [Ability] Oblivion is the remedy for injuries. [Lat., Injuriarum remedium est oblivio.] - Epistles (94), quoting from an old poet, also found in Syrus [Oblivion] Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum. - Epistles (97) [Vice] Better to have loved and lost, than not to have loved at all. [Lat., Magis gauderes quod habueras, quam moereres quod amiseras.] - Epistles (99), (Free translation) [Love] They will not live, and do not know how to die. [Lat., Vivere nolunt, et mori nesciunt.] - Epistles (IV) [Death] Virtue is according to nature; vices are hostile and dangerous. [Lat., Virtus secundum naturam est; vitia inimica et infesta sunt.] - Epistles (L) [Virtue] They are not lost but sent before. [Lat., Non amittuntur sed praemittuntur.] - Epistles (LXIII, 16) [Death] It is folly to die of the fear of death. [Lat., Stultitia est timore mortis mori.] - Epistles (LXIX) [Death] As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. [Lat., Quomodo fabula, sic vita: non quam diu, sed quam bene acta sit, refert.] - Epistles (LXXXVII) [Life] Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to posterity. [Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu visit? Vixit ad posteros.] - Epistles (XCIII) [Posterity] The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body. - Epistles (XIV) [Prayer] [Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink. [Ante, inquit, cicumspiciendum est, cum quibos edas et bibas, quam quid edas et bibas.] - Epistles (XIX) [Companionship] It [Philosophy] does not pay attention to pedigree. All, if their first origin be in question, are from the Gods. [Lat., Stemma non inspicit. Omnes, si ad primam originem mala in occulto patitur.] - Epistles (XLIV) [Ancestry] Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life--in a firmness of mind and mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our actions and words all of a color. - Epistles (XX) [Wisdom] Displaying page 16 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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