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Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, aid "Of the world;" for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world. [Lat., Socrates, quidem, cum rogaretur cujatem se esse diceret, "Mundanum," inquit; totius enim mundi se incolam et civem arbitrabatur.] - Tusculanarum Disputationum (bk. V, 37, 108) [World] The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit. [Lat., Arbores serit diligens agricola, quarum adspiciet baccam ipse numquam.] - Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 14) [Agriculture] No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. [Lat., Nemo unquam sine magna spe immortalitatatis se pro patria offerret ad mortem.] - Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 15) [Immortality] It is a proof of great talents to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit. [Lat., Magni est ingenii revocare mentem a sensibus, et cogitationem a consuetudine abducere.] - Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 16) [Talent] By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men. [Lat., Errare mehercule malo cum Platone, quem tu quanti facias, scio quam cum istis vera sentire.] - Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 17) [Error] Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.] - Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 18) [Occupations] Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth. [Lat., Natura inest mentibus nostris insatiabilis quaedam cupiditas veri videndi.] - Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 18) [Truth] The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command. [Lat., Vetat dominans ille in nobis deus, injussu hinc nos suo demigrare.] - Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 30) [Death] The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure. [Lat., Cignoni non sine causa Apoloni dicata sint, quod ab eo divinationem habere videantur, qua providentes quid in morte boni sit, cum cantu et voluptate moriantur.] - Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 30) [Swans] Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment. [Lat., Natura dedit usuram vitae tanquam pecuniae nulla praestitua die.] - Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 39) [Life] There are countless roads on all sides to the grave. [Lat., Undique enim ad inferos tantundem viae est.] - Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 43) [Death] Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [Lat., Gloria virtutem tanquam umbra sequitur.] - Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 45) [Glory] No one has lived a short live who has performed its duties with unblemished character. [Lat., Nemo parum diu vixit, qui virtuis perfectae perfecto functus est munere.] - Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 45) [Life] The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.] - Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 49) [Death] I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.] - Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 8), translation of verse of Epicharmus [Death] Reason is the mistress and queen of all things. [Lat., Domina omnium et regina ratio.] - Tusculanarum Disputationum (II, 21) [Reason] It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness. [Lat., Stultum est in luctu capillum sibi evellere, quasi calvito maeror levaretur.] - Tusculanarum Disputationum (III, 26) [Hair] The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.] - Tusculanarum Disputationum (III, 3) [Mind] It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own. [Lat., Est proprium stultitiae aliorum vitia cernere, oblivisci suorum.] - Tusculanarum Disputationum (III, 30) [Faults] In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist. [Lat., In animo perturbato, sicut in corpore, sanitas esse non potest.] - Tusculanarum Disputationum (III, 4) [Mind] It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life. [Lat., Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia.] - Tusculanarum Disputationum (LIX) [Fortune] It is better to receive than to do an injury. [Lat., Accipere quam facere injuiam praestat.] - Tusculanarum Disputationum (V, 19) [Injury] I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent. [Lat., Adhue neminem cognovi poetam, qui sibi non optimus videretur.] - Tusculanarum Disputationum (V, 22) [Poets] Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.] - Tusculanarum Disputationum (V, 37), quoting Pacuvius [Love of Country : Patriotism] Displaying page 19 of 19 for this author: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 [19]
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