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Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium divorti potest, quin, ubi triduum continuum fuerit, jam odiosis siet.
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Numquam enim audiendi quod aliquis monachus super puerum incubuisset, quin statim post ipsum surrexisset puer. I have heard before of a monk throwing himself on a boy, but the boyalways rose again afterwards.
Walter Map— c.1181 On hearing of an unsuccessful attempt by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux to revive a dead boy by throwing himself on the body and praying. De Nugis Curialium, Distinction 4, ch.5.
Nil tam difficile est quin quaerendo investigari possiet.
terence— Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.Act IV, scene 2, line 8 (675).
Nil tam difficile quin quærendo investigari possiet.
terence— Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
— Terence, Heauton timoroumenos, IV, 2, 8. Robert Herrick, Hesperides (1648), No. 1009, Seek and Find.
Nulla est tam facilis res, quin difficilis siet,Quum invitus facias.
terence— There is nothing so easy in itself but grows difficult when it is performed against one's will.
— Terence, Heauton timoroumenos, IV, 6, 1.
leges habent perquam paucas. sufficiunt enim sic institutis paucissimae. quin hoc in primis apud alios improbant populos, quod legum interpretumque uolumina, non infinita sufficiunt. ipsi uero censent iniquissimum; ullos homines his obligari legibus; quae aut numerosiores sint, quam ut perlegi queant; aut obscuriores quam ut a quouis possint intelligi.
— They have but few laws, and such is their constitution that they need not many. They very much condemn other nations whose laws, together with the commentaries on them, swell up to so many volumes; for they think it an unreasonable thing to oblige men to obey a body of laws that are both of such a bulk, and so dark as not to be read and understood by every one of the subjects.Ch. 7 : Of Their Slaves, and of Their Marriages
Nil tam difficile quin quærendo investigari possiet.
Robert Herrick— Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
— Terence, Heauton timoroumenos, IV, 2, 8. Robert Herrick, Hesperides (1648), No. 1009, Seek and Find.
Nulla est tam facilis res, quin difficilis siet, Quum invitus facias.
— There is nothing so easy in itself but grows difficult when it is performed against one's will.
— Terence, Heauton timoroumenos, IV, 6, 1.
¿A quién le importa lo que yo haga? ¿A quién le importa lo que yo diga? Yo soy así, así seguiré, ¡y nunca cambiaré! (Who cares what I say? Who cares what I do? I'm like this, I'll stay like this, and I will never change!)
— Alaska, ¿A quién le importa?
Nil tam difficile est quin quaerendo investigari possiet.
— Act IV, scene 2, line 8 (675).
Itaque ne mortuo quidem perinde adfectus est, sed tantum non statim a funere ad negotiorum consuetudinem rediit iustitio longiore inhibito. quin et Iliensium legatis paulo serius consolantibus, quasi obliterata iam doloris memoria, irridens se quoque respondit vicem eorum dolere, quod egregium civem Hectorem amisissent.
suetonius— When [his son] Drusus died Tiberius was not greatly concerned, and went back to his usual business almost as soon as the funeral ended, cutting short the period of official mourning; in fact, when a Trojan delegation arrived with condolences somewhat belatedly, Tiberius grinned, having apparently got over his loss, and replied: "May I condole with you, in return, on the death of your eminent fellow-citizen Hector?"Ch. 52
quin corpus onustum Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque prægravat una Atque affigit humo divinæ particulam auræ.
— The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath.
— Horace, Satires, II. 2. 77.
Itaque ne mortuo quidem perinde adfectus est, sed tantum non statim a funere ad negotiorum consuetudinem rediit iustitio longiore inhibito. quin et Iliensium legatis paulo serius consolantibus, quasi obliterata iam doloris memoria, irridens se quoque respondit vicem eorum dolere, quod egregium civem Hectorem amisissent.
— When [his son] Drusus died Tiberius was not greatly concerned, and went back to his usual business almost as soon as the funeral ended, cutting short the period of official mourning; in fact, when a Trojan delegation arrived with condolences somewhat belatedly, Tiberius grinned, having apparently got over his loss, and replied: "May I condole with you, in return, on the death of your eminent fellow-citizen Hector?"
— Ch. 52
