Quotes from book

Epistles

“We are but numbers, born to consume resources.”
Nos numerus sumus et fruges consumere nati.

“Nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.”

“Conquered Greece took captive her savage conqueror and brought her arts into rustic Latium.”
Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes intulit agresti Latio.

“I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.”
Nullius addictus iurare in verba magistri, quo me cumque rapit tempestas, deferor hospes.

“Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.”
Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.

“For why do you hasten to remove things that hurt your eyes, but if anything gnaws your mind, defer the time of curing it from year to year?”
Nam cur quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum?

“Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.”
Semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.

“To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.”
Virtus est vitium fugere et sapientia prima stultitia caruisse.

“Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be,
And think each day that dawns the last you'll see;
For so the hour that greets you unforeseen
Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.”
Inter spem curamque, timores inter et iras, Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum: Grata superveniet quae non sperabitur hora.

“It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.”
Nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.

“As for me, when you want a good laugh, you will find me in fine state… fat and sleek, a true hog of Epicurus' herd.”
Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises, cum ridere voles Epicuri de grege porcum.

“The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.”
Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes.

“You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.”
Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.

“To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.”
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“Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.”
Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum. grata superveniet, quae non sperabitur hora.

“Sky, not spirit, do they change, those who cross the sea.”
Caelum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt.

“What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect.”
Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors

“Look round and round the man you recommend,
For yours will be the shame should he offend.”
Qualem commendes, etiam atque etiam aspice, ne mox incutiant aliena tibi peccata pudorem.

“He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.”
Sedit qui timuit ne non succederet.