Glossary of Quotations 23 1 



175. In Marco Catone. The godlike and splendid qualities we see in Marcus 



Cato, know that they are peculiar to him; those things which we 

 sometimes long to possess are not given by nature but are the fruits 

 of training. 



176. Immanitati autem. It is fitting to oppose to bestial wickedness that 



heroic or divine virtue which is above human nature. 

 Nam ut ferae. For as neither vice nor virtue are found in a wild beast, 

 nor are they in God; the divine nature is something superior to 

 virtue, the bestial nature something different from vice. 



177. Amor melior {"Epm oo4>ujjoG). Love is better for human life than a 



left-handed preceptor. 



Ascendam, et eto. I will ascend and be like unto God. 



Eritis sicut Dii. Ye shall be like unto gods, knowing good and evil. 



Diligite inimicos. Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 

 and pray for those who persecute and calumniate you, that you may 

 be children of your Father who is in heaven, who maketh His sun 

 to rise upon the good and the bad, and raineth upon the just and the 

 unjust. 



1 78. Optimus Maximus. Best and Greatest. 

 Misericordia ejus. His mercy is upon all his works. 



Sunt gemincB. Two gates has slumber; the one, so they tell us, of 

 horn, and through it true visions may easily pass from the dead; 

 the other of gleaming ivory, cunningly wrought, wherethrough the 

 spirits send earthwards dreams that but lie. 



1 79. Sed adhxic populus. Neither as yet had the people set their hearts unto 



the Ivord God of their fathers. 



Nee vuUu. Do not let thy countenance belie thy word. 

 I Sd. Nil interest. It is no good having an open door and a forbidding look. 



Ne aut arrogans. Let me not appear arrogant or subservient; arro- 

 gance is the mask of one who forgets another's freedom, subservience 

 that of one who is unmindful of his own. 



Quid deformius. What more unseemly than to make one's life a stage ? 



Amid fures. Friends are the thieves of time. 

 I Si. Qui respicit. He that observeth the winds shall not sow; and he that 



regardeth the clouds shall not reap. 

 1S2. Sed et cunctis. Do not listen unto all words that are spoken, lest per- 

 chance thou hear thy servant curse thee. 



Vir sapiens. If a wise man has a controversy with a fool, whether he 

 be angry or laugh, he will find no rest. 



Qui delicati. He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child 

 will later on find him stubborn. 

 183. Vidisti virum. Seest thou a man diligent in his busir'^.ss? He shall 

 stand before kings, and shall not be among mean men. 



Vidi cunctos. I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they 

 were with the youth, the second, that standeth up in his stead. 



Plures adorant. More people worship the rising than the setting [or 

 the noonday] sun. 



Si spiritus. If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy 

 place; for self-control allayeth the greatest ofiences. 



Erat civitas. There was a little city, and few men within it; and there 

 came a great king against it and attacked it, and built great 

 bulwarks around it, and the siege was complete. Now there was 

 found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered it; yet 

 no man remembered that same poor man. 



Mollis responsio. A soft answer diminisheth wrath. 



Iter pigrorum. The way of sluggards is as a hedge of thorns. 



Melior est finis. Better is the end of a thing than, the beginning 

 thereof. 



Qui cognoscit. The judge who hath respect of persons doth not well; 

 he wUl desert truth for a piece of bread. 



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