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Qualis dominus talis est servus.
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Agnoscam fieri non posse ut existam talis naturae qualis sum, nempe ideam Dei in me habens, nisi revera Deus etiam existeret, Deus, inquam, ille idem cujus idea in me est. I could not possibly exist with the nature I actually have, that is, one endowed with the idea of God, unless there really is a God; the very God, I mean, of whom I have an idea.
— 1641Meditationes, 3rd meditation (translated by G E M Anscombe and Peter Geach)
Qualis dominus talis est servus. Like master like man.
— Satyricon, 58.
Sermo animi est imago; qualis vir, talis et oratio est.
publilius syrus— Conversation is the image of the mind; as the man, so is his speech.
— Syrus, Maxims
Sermo animi est imago; qualis vir, talis et oratio est.
publilius syrus— Conversation is the image of the mind; as the man, so is his speech.
— Syrus, Maxims.
Ultima talis erit quæ mea prima fides.
sextus propertius— My last confidence will be like my first.
— Sextus Propertius, Elegiæ, II, 20, 34.
Discretion is a science of understanding, to discern between falsity and truth, between wrong and right, between shadows and substance, between equity and colourable glosses and pretences, and not to do according to their (men's) wills, and private affections; for, as one saith, talis discretio diseretionem conundit?
— Lord Edward Coke, Rooke's Case (1598), 5 Rep. 99 b.
Verum ubi correptum manibus vinclisque tenebis, tum variae eludent species atque ora ferarum Fiet enim subito sus horridus atraque tigris squamosusque draco et fulva cervice leaena, aut acrem flammae sonitum dabit atque ita vinclis excidet, aut in aquas tenues dilapsus abibit. Sed quanto ille magis formas se vertet in omnes, tanto, nate, magis contende tenacia vincla, donec talis erit mutato corpore, qualem videris, incepto tegeret cum lumina somno.
— Thus surely bound, yet be not over bold,
The slippery god will try to loose his hold:
And various forms assume to cheat thy sight;
And with vain images of beasts affright;
With foamy tusks, he seems a bristly boar,
Or imitates the lion's angry roar;
Breaks out in crackling flames to shun thy snares,
Hisses a dragon, or a tiger stares;
Or with a wile thy caution to betray,
In fleeting streams attempts to slide away.
But thou, the more he varies forms, beware
To strain his fetters with a stricter care.
Till, tiring all his arts, he turns again
To his true shape, in which he first was seen.
— Book IV, lines 405–414 (translated by John Dryden); of Proteus.
talis hominibus est oratio qualis vita.
— Men's conversation is like their life.
— Seneca, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, 114.
talis hominibus est oratio qualis vita.
— Men's conversation is like their life.
— Seneca, Epistolæ Ad Lucilium, 114.
Verum ubi correptum manibus vinclisque tenebis, tum variae eludent species atque ora ferarum Fiet enim subito sus horridus atraque tigris squamosusque draco et fulva cervice leaena, aut acrem flammae sonitum dabit atque ita vinclis excidet, aut in aquas tenues dilapsus abibit. Sed quanto ille magis formas se vertet in omnes, tanto, nate, magis contende tenacia vincla, donec talis erit mutato corpore, qualem videris, incepto tegeret cum lumina somno.
virgil— Thus surely bound, yet be not over bold,
The slippery god will try to loose his hold:
And various forms assume to cheat thy sight;
And with vain images of beasts affright;
With foamy tusks, he seems a bristly boar,
Or imitates the lion's angry roar;
Breaks out in crackling flames to shun thy snares,
Hisses a dragon, or a tiger stares;
Or with a wile thy caution to betray,
In fleeting streams attempts to slide away.
But thou, the more he varies forms, beware
To strain his fetters with a stricter care.
Till, tiring all his arts, he turns again
To his true shape, in which he first was seen.Book IV, lines 405–414 (translated by John Dryden); of Proteus.
