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Vox populi habet aliquid divinum: nam quomo do aliter tot capita in unum conspirare possint?
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Vox populi habet aliquid divinum: nam quomo do aliter tot capita in unum conspirare possint?
— The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?
— Francis Bacon, 9. Laus, Existimatio.
Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, quam quod ridiculos homines facit.
juvenal— Bitter poverty has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.III, line 152-3.Variant translations:Of all the Griefs that harrass the Distrest,
Sure the most bitter is a scornful Jest.As translated by Samuel Johnson
He who is lying on the ground has nowhere to fall.
Alan of Lille also known as 'Alanus de Insulis'— 1175 Liber Parabolarum, ch.2, l.18.
Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit. The hardest thing to bear in poverty is the fact that it makes men ridiculous.
— Satirae, no.3, l.152-3 (translated by Peter Green).
Vere magnus est, qui magnam habet caritatem. He is truly great who has great charity.
— c.1413 De Imitatione Christi, bk.1, ch.4, section 6.
Habere non potest Deum patrem qui ecclesiam non habet matrem.
cyprian— No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.
— De Ecclesiae Catholicae Unitate (AD 251), ch. vi.
Materiae ne quaere modum; sed perspice viresQuas ratio, non pondus habet; ratio omnia vincit.
marcus manilius— Seek not the measure of matter; fix your gazeUpon the power of reason, not of bulk;For reason 'tis that all things overcomes.
— IV, 924, as reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of Quotations (1897), p. 130.
Majestatem res data dantis habet.
ovid— The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver.
— Ovid, Epistolæ Ex Ponto, IV. 9. 68.
Immensum gloria calcar habet.
ovid— The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.
— Ovid, Epistolæ Ex Ponto, IV. 2. 36
Tam deest avaro quod habet, quam quod non habet.
publilius syrus— The miser is as much in want of what he has, as of what he has not.
— Syrus, Maxims.
Sic omnis amor unus habet decemere ferro.
virgil— Each burns alike with frantic zeal
To end the quarrel by the steel.Line 282 (translated by John Conington).
Inter cætera mala hoc quoque habet Stultitia semper incipit vivere.
— Among other evils folly has also this, that it is always beginning to live.
— Seneca, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, 13.
Dimidium facti qui coepit habet; sapere aude; incipe!
horace— He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!Book I, epistle ii, line 40.
Tam deest avaro quod habet, quam quod non habet.
publilius syrus— The miser is as much in want of what he has, as of what he has not.
— Syrus, Maxims.
* Sæpe tacens vocem verbaque vultus habet.
— Often a silent face has voice and words.
— Ovid, Ars Amatoria, Book I. 574.
Sæpe tacens vocem verbaque vultus habet.
— Often a silent face has voice and words.
— Ovid, Ars Amatoria, Book I. 574.
Fœnum habet in cornu.
— He has hay on his horns.
— Horace, Satires, I. 4. 34.
Aëre non certo corpora languor habet.
— Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.
— Ovid, Ars Amatoria, II, 310.
Animus hoc habet argumentum divinitatis suæ, quod ilium divina delectant.
— The soul has this proof of its divinity: that divine things delight it.
— Seneca, Quæstionum Naturalium, Præfet ad 1 lib.
Materiae ne quaere modum; sed perspice vires Quas ratio, non pondus habet; ratio omnia vincit.
— Seek not the measure of matter; fix your gaze
Upon the power of reason, not of bulk;
For reason 'tis that all things overcomes.
— IV, 924, as reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of Quotations (1897), p. 130.
Ludit in humanis divina potentia rebus, Et certam præsens vix habet hora fidem.
— Heaven makes sport of human affairs, and the present hour gives no sure promise of the next.
— Ovid, Epistolæ Ex Ponto, IV. 3. 49.
Fænum habet in cornu, longe fuge.
— He is a dangerous fellow, keep clear of him. (That is: he has hay on his horns, showing he is dangerous.)
— Horace, Satires, I, IV. 34.
Habere non potest Deum patrem qui ecclesiam non habet matrem .
— No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.
— De Ecclesiae Catholicae Unitate (AD 251), ch. vi.
Dimidium facti qui coepit habet; sapere aude; incipe!
— He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
— Book I, epistle ii, line 40.
Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, quam quod ridiculos homines facit.
— As translated by Samuel Johnson
Sic omnis amor unus habet decemere ferro.
— Each burns alike with frantic zeal
To end the quarrel by the steel.
— Line 282 (translated by John Conington).
[V]irtus praemium est optimum:;; virtus omnibus remus anteit profecto:;: libertas salus vita res et parentes, patria et prognati tutantur, servantur:;: virtus omnia in sese habet, omnia adsunt bona quem penest virtus.
— Valour’s the best reward ; ‘tis valour that surpasses all things else : our liberty, our safety, life, estate, our parents, children, country, are by this preserved, protected : valour everything comprises in itself ; and every good awaits the man who is possess’d of valour. (translator Thornton)
— Amphitryon, Act II, scene 2, line 16.
— Variant translation: Courage is the very best gift of all; courage stands before everything, it does, it does! It is what maintains and preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things: a man with courage has every blessing.
Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit, pauper est.
— Letter II: On discursiveness in reading, line 6.
