
"Myth on the Right," in Mythologies (1957)
Book II, line 14 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
Sit caeca futuri mens hominum fati; liceat sperare timenti.
"Myth on the Right," in Mythologies (1957)
“Arousal leaves us mind-blind.”
Source: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“Let the wife make her husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”
Part ii, canto vii.
Lucile (1860)
“When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear.”
Ubi intravit animos pavor, id solum metuunt, quod primum formidare cœperunt.
IV, 16, 17.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IV
“Henceforth let no woman believe a man's oath, let none believe that a man's speeches can be trustworthy. They, while their mind desires something and longs eagerly to gain it, nothing fear to swear, nothing spare to promise; but as soon as the lust of their greedy mind is satisfied, they fear not then their words, they heed not their perjuries.”
Nunc iam nulla viro iuranti femina credat,
nulla viri speret sermones esse fideles;
quis dum aliquid cupiens animus praegestit apisci,
nil metuunt iurare, nihil promittere parcunt:
sed simul ac cupidae mentis satiata libido est,
dicta nihil metuere, nihil periuria curant.
LXIV
Carmina
“If a man would be righteous, let him depart from a court. Virtue is incompatible with absolute power. He who is ashamed to commit cruelty must always fear it.”
Exeat aula
qui volt esse pius. Virtus et summa potestas
non coeunt; semper metuet quem saeva pudebunt.
Book VIII, line 493 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“The only hope for the doomed is no hope at all.”
Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Line 354. Variant translation: The only safe course for the defeated is to expect no safety.