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Aetati tuae, mi Tiberi, noli in hac re indulgere et nimium indignari quemquam esse, qui de me male loquatur; satis est enim, si hoc habemus ne quis nobis male facere possit.
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At quanto ego de illis melius existimo! ipsi quoque haec possunt facere, sed nolunt. Denique quem umquam ista destituere temptantem? cui non faciliora apparuere in actu? Non quia difficilia sunt non audemus, sed quia non audemus difficilia sunt.
seneca the younger— But how much more highly do I think of these men! They can do these things, but decline to do them. To whom that ever tried have these tasks proved false? To what man did they not seem easier in the doing? Our lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty. The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.
— Also translated as: It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, but because we do not dare, things are difficult.Letter CIV, verse 26
Duo quum idem faciunt, sæpe ut possis dicere, Hoc licet impune facere huic, illi non licet: Non quod dissimilis res sit, sed quod is sit.
— When two persons do the self-same thing, it oftentimes falls out that in the one it is criminal, in the other it is not so; not that the thing itself is different, but he who does it.
— Terence, Adelphi, V, III. 37.
Furtum ingeniosus ad omne, Qui facere assueret, patriæ non degener artis, Candida de nigris, et de candentibus atra.
— Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look white, and white look black.
— Ovid, Metamorphoses, XI, 313.
Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quærit lucrum.
— He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
— Plautus, Asinaria, I, 3, 65.
Hoc scitum'st periculum ex aliis facere, tibi quid ex usu sit.
— From others' slips some profit from one's self to gain.
— Terence, Heauton timorumenos, I, 2.
Iratus semplar plus putat posse facere quam possit.
— The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can.
— Albertano of Brescia, Liber Consolations.
Solent suprema facere securos mala.
— Desperate evils generally make men safe.
— Seneca, Œdipus, CCCLXXXVI
Quamvis enim melius sit benefacere quam nosse, prius tamen est nosse quam facere.
— Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.
— "De Litteris Colendis", in Jean-Barthélemy Hauréau De la philosophie scolastique (1850) p. 10; translation from T. H. Huxley Science and Education ([1893] 2007) p. 132
Aetati tuae, mi Tiberi, noli in hac re indulgere et nimium indignari quemquam esse, qui de me male loquatur; satis est enim, si hoc habemus ne quis nobis male facere possit.
— My dear Tiberius, you must not give way to youthful emotion or take it to heart if anyone speaks ill of me; let us be satisfied if we can make people stop short at unkind words.
— Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 51. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
Non ego omnino lucrum omne esse utile homini existimo. Scio ego, multos jam lucrum luculentos homines reddidit. Est etiam, ubi profecto damnum praestet facere, quam lucrum.
— Nor do I hold that every kind of gain is always serviceable. Gain, I know, has render’d many great. But there are times when loss should be preferr’d to gain. (translator Thornton)
— Captivi, Act II, scene 2, line 75.
— Variant translation: There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. (translation by Henry Thomas Riley)
