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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
[Lat., Quantum caliginis mentibus nostris objicit magna
felicitas!]
Topic: Prosperity
Source: De Brevitate Vitoe (XIII)
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When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He
overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.
[Lat., Semel profecto premere felices deus
Cum coepit, urget; hos habent magna exitus.]
Topic: Prosperity
Source: Hercules Oetoeus (713)
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This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light
of reason, but after the fashion of others.
[Lat., Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad
similitudinem aliorum vivimus.]
Topic: Reason
Source: Octavia (act II, 454)
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It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways:
He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.
[Lat., Nam sera nunquam est ad bonos mores via.
Quem peonitet peccasse, paene est innocens.]
Topic: Repentance
Source: Agamemnon (242)
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God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.
[Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.]
Topic: Repentance
Source: De Beneficiis (VI, 23)
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
[Lat., Inhumanum verbum est ultio.]
Topic: Revenge
Source: De Ira (II, 31)
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The first art to be learned by a ruler is to endure envy.
[Lat., Ars prima regni posse te invidiam pati.]
Topic: Royalty
Source: Hercules Furens (CCCLIII)
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The throne of another is not stable for thee.
[Lat., Alieno in loco
Haud stabile regnum est.]
Topic: Royalty
Source: Hercules Furens (CCCXLIV)
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Every monarch is subject to a mightier one.
[Lat., Omnes sub regno graviore regnum est.]
Topic: Royalty
Source: Hercules Furens (DCXIV)
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
[Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.]
Topic: Satisfaction
Source: Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (VI)
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If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to
yourself.
Topic: Secrecy
Source: Hippolytus (876)
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Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.
[Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.]
Topic: Secrecy
Source: Oedipus (826)
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
[Lat., Domini pudet non servitutis.]
Topic: Service
Source: Troades (989)
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We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep
for.
[Lat., Levia perpessi sumus
Si flenda patimur.]
Topic: Suffering
Source: Agamemnon (665)
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Light troubles speak; immense troubles are silent.
[Lat., Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.]
Topic: Trouble
Source: Hippolytus (act II, sc. 3, l. 607)
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He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.
[Lat., Dubiam salutem qui dat adflictis negat.]
Topic: Trouble
Source: Oedipus (CCXIII)
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Every change of place becomes a delight.
[Lat., Omnis mutatio loci jucunda fiet.]
Topic: Variety
Source: Epistles (28)
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Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of
men, not of the times.
[Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.
Topic: Vice
Source: Epistles (97)
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The voice is nothing but beaten air.
[Lat., Vox nihil aliud quam ictus aer.]
Topic: Voice
Source: Naturalinum Quoestionum (bk. II)
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We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it
through despite to languish long time in error.
Topic: Will
Source: Of Benefits (bk. V, ch. XXV, ep. 67)
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