Latin Authors

"Multum legendum esse, non multa."

"Ea invasit homines habendi cupido, ut possideri magis quam possidere videantur."

"Est omnino iniquum, sed usu receptum, quod honesta consilia vel turpia, prout male aut prospere cedunt, ita vel probantur vel reprehenduntur."

"Nescit enim semel incitata liberalitas stare, cuius pulchritudinem usus ipse commendat."

"O morte ipsa mortis tempus indignius!"

"Proinde, dum suppetit vita, enitamur ut mors quam paucissima quae abolere possit inveniat."

"Utque in corporibus sic in imperio gravissimus est morbus, qui a capite diffunditur."

"Si computes annos, exiguum tempus, si vices rerum, aevum putes."

"This expression of ours, "Father of a family.""

"Mihi autem videtur acerba semper et immatura mors eorum, qui immortale aliquid parant."

"Poetis mentiri licet."

"Dixi omnia cum hominem nominavi."

"Quamquam longissimus, dies cito conditur."

"A mountain was in labour, sending forth dreadful groans, and there was in the region the highest expectation. After all, it brought forth a mouse."

""I knew that before you were born." Let him who would instruct a wiser man consider this as said to himself."

"Homo doctus in se semper divitias habet."

"Jupiter has loaded us with a couple of wallets: the one, filled with our own vices, line he has placed at our backs; the other, lie heavy with those of others, he has hung before."

"Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example."

"Come of it what may, as Sinon said."

"Non semper ea sunt quae videntur."

"Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief."

"By this story [The Fox and the Raven] it is shown how much ingenuity avails, and how wisdom is always an overmatch for strength."

"No one returns with good-will to the place which has done him a mischief."

"That it is unwise to be heedless ourselves while we are giving advice to others, I will show in a few lines."

"It has been related that dogs drink at the river Nile running along, that they may not be seized by the crocodiles."

"He who covets what belongs to another deservedly loses his own."

"Cedite Romani scriptores, cedite Grai! Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade."

"Sunt aliquid Manes: letum non omnia finit, Luridaque evictos effugit umbra rogos."

"Magnum iter ascendo; sed dat mihi gloria vires"

"Semper in absentes felicior aestus amantes."

"Errat, qui finem vesani quaerit amoris: verus amor nullum novit habere modum"

"Absenti nemo non nocuisse velit."

"Fortes indigne tuli Mihi insultare: te, nature dedecus, Quod ferre certe cogor, bis videor mori."

"Unus quisque sua noverit ire via."

"Aut patrio qualis ponit vestigia ponto Mille Venus teneris cincta Cupidinibus."

"Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est."

"Quicumque ille fuit, puerum qui pinxit Amorem nonne putas miras hunc habuisse manus? is primum vidit sine sensu vivere amantes"

"Qua pote quisque, in ea conterat arte diem."

"Nudus Amor formam non amat artificem."

"Nemo in amore videt."

"Navita de ventis, de tauris narrat arator, Enumerat miles vulnera, pastor oves."

"Ill have I brook’d that nobler foes Should triumph o’er my dying woes: But, scorn of nature, forced to lie And take thy taunts, is twice to die."

"Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you."

"Neque assueto mutet amore torum."

"A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush it gave himself a hard slap. Then said the fly jeeringly, "You wanted to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?""

"Once lost, Jupiter himself cannot bring back opportunity."

"Lament grievously and be sorry, because thou art still so carnal and worldly, so unmortified from thy passions, so full of the motion of concupiscence, so unguarded in thine outward senses, so often entangled in many vain fancies, so much inclined to outward things, so negligent of internal; so ready to laughter and dissoluteness, so unready to weeping and contrition; so prone to ease and indulgence of the flesh, so dull to zeal and fervour; so curious to hear novelties and behold beauties, so loth to embrace things humble and despised; so desirous to have many things, so grudging in giving, so close in keeping; so inconsiderate in speaking, so reluctant to keep silence; so disorderly in manners, so inconsiderate in actions; so eager after food, so deaf towards the Word of God; so eager after rest, so slow to labour; so watchful after tales, so sleepy towards holy watchings; so eager for the end of them, so wandering in attention to them; so negligent in observing the hours of prayer, so lukewarm in celebrating, so unfruitful in communicating; so quickly distracted, so seldom quite collected with thyself; so quickly moved to anger, so ready for displeasure at others; so prone to judging, so severe at reproving; so joyful in prosperity, so weak in adversity; so often making many good resolutions and bringing them to so little effect."

"I offer also to Thee prayers and Sacramental intercessions for those specially who have injured me in aught, made me sad, or spoken evil concerning me, or have caused me any loss or displeasure; for all those also whom I have at any time made sad, disturbed, burdened, and scandalized, by words or deeds, knowingly or ignorantly; that to all of us alike, Thou mayest equally pardon our sins and mutual offences. Take away, O Lord, from our hearts all suspicion, indignation, anger, and contention, and whatsoever is able to injure charity and diminish brotherly love. Have mercy, have mercy, Lord, on those who entreat Thy mercy; give grace to the needy; and make us such that we may be worthy to enjoy Thy grace, and go forward to the life eternal."

"For they truly know their Lord in the breaking of bread, whose heart within them so vehemently burneth, whilst Thou, O blessed Jesus, dost walk and converse with them."

"Even though Thou dost expose me to divers temptations and adversities, Thou ordainest all this unto my advantage, for Thou are wont to prove Thy beloved ones in a thousand ways."