Inveni Quotes
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Jam portum inveni, Spes et Fortuna valete. Nil mihi vobiscum est, ludite nunc alios.
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Inveni fateor in rege monachum, claustrum in curia, in palatio monasterii disciplinam. I confess that I found in the king a monk, in the court a cloister, and in the palace the discipline of a monastery.
— ?c.1160 Lament for David I, King of Scotland. Quoted in John Fordoun Chronicle of Scotland (c.1384), bk.5, ch.43.
In omnibus requiem quæsivi Et non Inveni Nisi seorsim sedans In angulo cum libello.
— Everywhere I have sought rest and found it not except sitting apart in a nook with a little book.
— Written in an autograph copy of Thomas à Kempis's De Imitatione, according to Cornelius A. Lapide (Cornelius van den Steen), a Flemish Jesuit of the 17th century, who says he saw this inscription. At Zwoll is a picture of à Kempis with this inscription, the last clause being "in angello cum libello"—in a little nook with a little book. In angellis et libellis—in little nooks (cells) and little books. Given in King—Classical Quotations as being taken from the preface of De Imitatione.
In Fortunam Inveni portum spes et fortuna valete Nil mini vobiscum ludite nunc alios.'
— Mine haven's found; Fortune and Hope, adieu.
Mock others now, for I have done with you.
— Inscription on the tomb of Francesco Pucci in the church of St. Onuphrius, (St. Onofrio), Rome; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 233. Translation by Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part II, Section III. Memb. 6. Quoted by him as a saying of Prudentius. Attributed to Janus Pannonius. See Jani Panuonii, Onofrio, Part II. Folio 70. Found in Laurentius Schradern's Monumenta Italiæ, Folio Helmæstadii, p. 164. Attributed to Cardinal, La Marck in foot-note to Le Sage's Gil Blas.
