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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. [Lat., Beneficium non in eo quot fit aut datur consistit sed in ipso dantis aut facientis animo.] - De Beneficiis (I, 6) [Benefit] A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver. [Lat., Eodem animo beneficium debetur, quo datur.] - De Beneficiis (II, 1) [Benefit] Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers. [Lat., Nulla res carius constat quam quae precibus empta est.] - De Beneficiis (II, 1) [Prayer] Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it. [Lat., Qui dedit beneficium taceat; narret; qui accepit.] - De Beneficiis (II, 11) [Benefit] Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it. [Lat., Qui gratus futurus est statim dum accipit de reddendo cogitet.] - De Beneficiis (II, 25) [Gratitude] The time that precedes punishment is the severest part of it. [Lat., Quod antecedit tempus, maxima venturi supplicii pars est.] - De Beneficiis (II, 5) [Punishment] Fabius Verrucosus called a favor roughly bestowed by a hard man, bread made of stone. [Lat., Fabius Verrucosus beneficium ab homine duro aspere datum, panem lapidosum vocabat.] - De Beneficiis (II, 7) [Gifts] He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it. [Lat., Ingratus est, qui beneficium accepisse se negat, quod accepit: ingratus est, qui dissimulat; ingratus, qui non reddit; ingratissimus omnium, qui oblitus est.] - De Beneficiis (III, 1) [Ingratitude] The sun shines even on the wicked. [Lat., Et sceleratis sol oritur.] - De Beneficiis (III, 25) [Equality] God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no is excluded. [Lat., Deus quaedam munera universo humano generi dedit, a quibus excluditur nemo.] - De Beneficiis (IV, 28) [Gifts] God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. [Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.] - De Beneficiis (VI, 23) [Repentance] Truth lies wrapped up and hidden in the depths. [Lat., Involuta veritas in alto latet.] - De Beneficiis (VII, 1) [Truth] If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail. [Lat., Si vir es, suspice, etiam si decidunt, magna conantes.] - De Brevitate (XX) [Greatness] They laboriously do nothing. [Lat., Operose nihil agunt.] - De Brevitate Vitoe (bk. I, 13) [Nothingness] That is the utterance of the greatest of physicians, that life is short and art long. [Lat., Illa maximi medicorum exclamatio est, Vitam brevem esse, longam artem.] - De Brevitate Vitoe (I) [Art] Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough. [Lat., Vita, si scias uti, longa est.] - De Brevitate Vitoe (II) [Life] The part of life which we really live is short. [Lat., Exigua pars est vitae quam nos vivimus.] - De Brevitate Vitoe (II) [Life] How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness. [Lat., Quantum caliginis mentibus nostris objicit magna felicitas!] - De Brevitate Vitoe (XIII) [Prosperity] A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. [Lat., Nec rationem patitur, nec aequitate mitigatur nec ulla prece flectitur, populus esuriens.] - De Brevitate Vitoe (XVIII) [Hunger] A great mind becomes a great fortune. [Lat., Magnam fortunam magnus animus decet.] - De Clementia (I, 5) [Mind] A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort. [Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est turba miserorum.] - De Consolatione ad Marciam (12, 5) [Companionship] In the great inconstancy and crowd of events, nothing is certain except the past. [Lat., In tanta inconstantia turbaque rerum nihil nisi quod preteriit certum est.] - De Consolatione ad Marciam (XXII) [Past] Whatever begins, also ends. [Lat., Quicquid coepit, et desinit.] - De Consolatione ad Polybium (I) [Beginnings] The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death. [Lat., Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est.] - De Consolatione ad Polybium (XI) [Life] What new thing then is it for a man to die, whose whole life is nothing else but a journey to death? [Lat., Quid est enim novi, hominem mori, cujus tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est?] - De Consolatione ad Polybium (XI) [Death] Displaying page 14 of 22 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 [14] 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
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