Paedagogica Index

[ 301 ] Antidotum vitae, Patientia est.

[ 301 ] The remedy for life is endurance.

[ 302 ] Sal vitae, Amicitia.

[ 302 ] The spice of life is friendship.

[ 303 ] Sol vitae, Sapientia.

[ 303 ] The sun of life is Wisdom.

[ 304 ] Maxima quaeque vitae oblectamenta insulsa sunt et insuavia.

[ 304 ] Every one of the greatest delights of life is insipid and disagreeable.

[ 305 ] Multi nimium habent, nemo satis.

[ 305 ] Many have too much; no one enough.

[ 306 ] Praeferendus est dies unus sapientis longissimae aeternitati stultorum.

[ 306 ] One day of the wise person is to be preferred to the longest eternity of the foolish.

[ 307 ] Non est pauper qui caret, sed qui eget, qui desiderat.

[ 307 ] That person who lacks things is not poor, but the one who is needy or full of desire is.

[ 308 ] Risus nec multus sit, nec ob multa. (Epictetus)

[ 308 ] Don't laugh much nor at many things.

[ 309 ] Sis tu alienis lachrymis cautior: Alieno risu laetior.

[ 309 ] Be a bit cautious at someone else's tears: a bit cheered at someone else's smile.

[ 310 ] Magnes amoris amor est.

[ 310 ] The magnet of love is love.

[ 311 ] Nihil est quod sic eliciat amorem ut amor. Hinc illud Maritalis, "ut ameris, ama."

[ 311 ] There is nothing that so draws out love as love does. Hence that saying of Martial, "To be loved, love."

[ 312 ] Est naturalis quaedam in rebus conjunctio et harmonia, ut nemo illum oderit, a quo diligitur.

[ 312 ] There is a certain natural conjunction and harmony in things, so that no one hates that one by whom he is loved.

[ 313 ] Decet eum qui dat, non meminisse beneficii: eum vero, qui accipit, intueri non tam munus quam dantis animum.

[ 313 ] It becomes him who gives not to remember the favor: but it becomes him who receives not to look upon the gift as much as the soul of the giver.

[ 314 ] Idcirco fingunt tres esse Gratias, duas nunquam retrospicere, tertiam semper priores intueri.

[ 314 ] For that reason they imagine the Graces are three: two never look back, and the third always looks upon the first two.

[ 315 ] Bonus, bonus est et bonis et malis: Malus, nec malis, nec bonis.

[ 315 ] The good is good for the good and for the bad: the bad is good neither for the bad nor for the good.

[ 316 ] Priusquam incipias, consulto, et ubi consulueris, mature facto opus est.

[ 316 ] Before you begin, there is the need to deliberate, and when you have finished deliberating, there is the need to act at the right moment.

[ 317 ] Dei auspiciis atque ductui te totum in hac vitae militia permittas, et imperiis obtemperes, et exemplum aemuleris.

[ 317 ] Give yourself totally to the signs and leadership of God in this campaign of life, and submit to commands and follow example.

[ 318 ] Ne feceris, quod factum nolis.

[ 318 ] Do not do what you do not wish to be done.

[ 319 ] Modica deambulatio corpusculum reficit: immodica conficit.

[ 319 ] Moderate strolling restores the body; immoderate strolling undoes it.

[ 320 ] Quod commodavit fortuna, tollet.

[ 320 ] What fortune has supplied, it will remove.

[ 321 ] Quod mutuavit natura, repetet.

[ 321 ] What nature has loaned, she will seek back.

[ 322 ] Quod paraverit virtus, retinebis.

[ 322 ] What your virtue has gotten, you will keep.

[ 323 ] Non refert quam diu vixeris, sed quam bene. Vita illa quae bona est, longa est.

[ 323 ] It does not matter how long you have lived, but how well. The life that is good, is long.

[ 324 ] Despicere oportet, quod possis deperdere.

[ 324 ] You ought to look down on what you can lose.

[ 325 ] Populo cede, non pare. Non est enim cum multitudine pugnandum bellua multicipiti, sed nec ejus opinionibus assentiendum.

[ 325 ] Yield to the people, but do not obey them. For one should not fight with the crowd, a many-headed beast, but neither should one assent to its opinions.

[ 326 ] Non refert qua, sed quo.

[ 326 ] What is important is not the way-by-which but the where-unto.

[ 327 ] In omni loco, in omni fortuna licet recte agere, et illo pervenire quo intendimus.

[ 327 ] In every place, in every circumstance we ought to act correctly and arrive there, where we are heading.

[ 328 ] Voluptas est ut apis, mella cum fudit fugit.

[ 328 ] Pleasure is like a bee; when it has poured forth the honey, it flees.

[ 329 ] Ebrietas nec madida, nec sicca te opprimat.

[ 329 ] Let neither a wet nor a dry drunkenness keep you down.

[ 330 ] Carum est quod precibus emitur.

[ 330 ] What is bought by prayers is dear.

[ 331 ] Emere malo, quam rogare.

[ 331 ] I prefer to buy than to beg.

[ 332 ] Magnum pretium sunt preces.

[ 332 ] Prayers are precious payment.

[ 333 ] Calumniae morsui nullum est remedium.

[ 333 ] There is no cure for the bite of slander.

[ 334 ] Fortuna prospera gubernanda arte, consilio, prudentia, ingenio: irata retundenda magno robore, et invicto animo superanda et calcanda.

[ 334 ] Good fortune ought to be managed by art, planning, prudence, and creative intelligence; an angry fortune ought to be pounded back with great strength, and overcome and trounced with an unbeaten spirit.

[ 335 ] Sis tu bonorum rector; malorum victor.

[ 335 ] Be a manager over good things and a winner over bad ones.

[ 336 ] Studia nostra non tam intermittenda sunt, quam remittenda.

[ 336 ] Our studies should not be interrupted so much as relaxed.

[ 337 ] Christus vitae nostrae scopus est: ipse est initium, ipse finis, ab ipso proficiscuntur omnia, in ipsum tendunt. Huic oportet nos affigamus, si volumus beati esse, non alio clavo quam mente ipsa.

[ 337 ] Christ is the aim of our life: he is the beginning, he the end; from him, everything takes its start, toward him everything stretches. We should fasten ourselves to him, if we wish to be happy, with no nail other than our mind itself.

[ 338 ] Posse nocere, et nolle, nobile.

[ 338 ] It is noble to have the ability to do harm and the will not to.

[ 339 ] Ejusdem est artis recte tacere, et recte loqui.

[ 339 ] Being silent in the right way and speaking in the right way belong to the same art.

[ 340 ] Quanto plus liceat, tanto minus libeat.

[ 340 ] The more one is permitted to do, the less one should want to.

[ 341 ] Ignoscas aliis multa, nihil tibi.

[ 341 ] Pardon others many things, yourself nothing.

[ 342 ] Nolo minor me timeat, despiciatque major.

[ 342 ] I don't want a junior person to fear me, and I don't want a senior one to scorn me.

[ 343 ] Vive memor mortis, memor ut sis salutis.

[ 343 ] Live mindful of death so that you might be mindful of salvation.

[ 344 ] Tristia cuncta exsuperes, aut Animo, aut Amico.

[ 344 ] Overcome all sorrows either with your spirit or with a friend.

[ 345 ] Amicum laudato palam, sed errantem occulte corripe.

[ 345 ] Praise your friend in public, but when he goes wrong, reproach him in private.

[ 346 ] Crux est si metuas, vincere quod nequeas.

[ 346 ] It is a terrible pain if you dread what you are unable to conquer.

[ 347 ] Animus vereri qui scit, scit tuto aggredi.

[ 347 ] The mind that knows how to fear, knows how to approach safely.

[ 348 ] Ames parentem, si aequus est: sin aliter, feras.

[ 348 ] Love your father if he is fair: if not, put up with him.

[ 349 ] Amici vitia si feras, facis tua.

[ 349 ] If you tolerate the vices of your friend, you make them your own.

[ 350 ] Absentem laedit, qui cum ebrio litigat.

[ 350 ] If you are quarreling with a drunken person, you are wounding an absent party.

[ 351 ] Summum malum optat avaro qui vitam illi optat diutinam.

[ 351 ] The one who hopes for a long life for a miser is wishing for the worst evil for him/her.

[ 352 ] Amicos res secundae parant, adversae probant.

[ 352 ] Good times get you friends, bad ones test them.

[ 353 ] Aleator quanto in arte peritior est, tanto nequior.

[ 353 ] The better the gambler is, the worse he is.

[ 354 ] Habere satius est, quam avere.

[ 354 ] Having is better than longing to have.

[ 355 ] Bis gratum est, quod opus est, ultro si offeras.

[ 355 ] If on your own you offer what is needed, the gift is twice as good.

[ 356 ] Beneficium dare qui nescit, injuste petit.

[ 356 ] The one who doesn't know how to do a favor is wrong to look for one.

[ 357 ] Beneficium accipere, est libertatem vendere.

[ 357 ] To accept a favor is to sell your freedom.

[ 358 ] Bis peccas, cum peccanti obsequium accommodas.

[ 358 ] You sin twice when you render service to a person who is sinning.

[ 359 ] Beneficium dando accepit, qui digno dedit.

[ 359 ] That person receives a favor by doing one for a worthy person.

[ 360 ] Beneficium qui se dedisse dicit, petit.

[ 360 ] The one who says he/she has done a favor is seeking one.

[ 361 ] Conjunctio animi, maxima est cognatio.

[ 361 ] The linking of the heart is the closest kinship.

[ 362 ] Arctius alligat mutua benevolentia, quam affinitas sanguinis.

[ 362 ] Mutual kindness binds tighter than blood.

[ 363 ] Beneficium qui saepe dat, docet reddere.

[ 363 ] The one who often performs a kindness teaches how to return it.

[ 364 ] Bis vincit, qui se vincit in victoria: primum hostem, deinde animum.

[ 364 ] That one wins twice who overcomes himself/herself in a victory: first one's foe, then one's spirit.

[ 365 ] Bene cogitata si excidunt, non occidunt.

[ 365 ] If good ideas [lit: things that have been thought out well] get away, they are not gone for good.

[ 366 ] Bonis nocet, quisquis pepercerit malis.

[ 366 ] Whoever spares the bad hurts the good.

[ 367 ] Cuivis dolori remedium est patientia.

[ 367 ] The cure for any sorrow is endurance.

[ 368 ] Comes facundus in via pro vehiculo est.

[ 368 ] Having a good talker as a companion while walking on the road is like having a car to ride in.

[ 369 ] Cui plus licet quam par est, plus vult quam licet.

[ 369 ] The one allowed to have more than is proper wants more than is allowed.

[ 370 ] Stultum est maledicere: nam si amicus est cui maledicis, inique facis: sin inimicus, magis illum irritas.

[ 370 ] Cursing is a foolish thing: if is a friend that you curse, you do it to your harm; if an enemy, you aggravate him more.

[ 371 ] Tutissimum est, esse lentas consultationes, nam praecipitata consilia fere inauspicata sunt.

[ 371 ] Long deliberations are the safest thing, for hasty advice usually makes for failures.

[ 372 ] Difficilem oportet aurem habere ad crimina.

[ 372 ] You ought to have an ear that is deaf to charges.

[ 373 ] Lucrum cum jactura famae, damnum est, non lucrum.

[ 373 ] Gain with the loss of reputation is a loss, not a gain.

[ 374 ] Ex vitio alterius, sapiens emendat suum.

[ 374 ] From another person's vice, the wise person corrects his/her own.

[ 375 ] Etiam pilus unus habet umbram suam.

[ 375 ] Even a single hair has its own shadow.

[ 376 ] Fortunam citius reperias, quam retineas.

[ 376 ] You may find good fortune more quickly than you may keep it.

[ 377 ] Formosa facies muta commendatio est.

[ 377 ] An attractive appearance is a silent recommendation.

[ 378 ] Dolus est accipere beneficium a quoquam, cui non possis tantundem reddere.

[ 378 ] Taking a favor from someone to whom you can't return it is a swindle.

[ 379 ] Quoties fortuna favet improbis, hoc fit calamitate et malo optimorum.

[ 379 ] Whenever fortune favors the wicked, this happens to the loss and trouble of the best.

[ 380 ] Feras, non culpes, quod vitari non potest.

[ 380 ] Bear, don't blame, what can not be avoided.

[ 381 ] Magnae felicitatis comites sunt Stultitia et Arrogantia.

[ 381 ] The companions of great happiness are foolishness and insolence.

[ 382 ] Fidem qui perdidit, nil ultra potest perdere.

[ 382 ] The one who has lost good faith can lose nothing further.

[ 383 ] Durum est laedi, vel ab amico, vel a potente: quod queri de altero non est honestum: de altero non est tutum.

[ 383 ] Being hurt is hard, whether by a friend or by one who has power: but to complain about the one is not honorable, and about the other is not safe.

[ 384 ] Prioris diei discipulus est posterior.

[ 384 ] The next day learns from the one before.

[ 385 ] In nullum avarus bonus est, in se pessimus.

[ 385 ] Greedy persons are good to nobody, but they are the worst to themselves.

[ 386 ] Nihil tam dulce est, quod non pariat satietatem, nisi varietate condiatur.

[ 386 ] Nothing is so sweet that it does not make one full, unless variety spices it.

[ 387 ] Quod superiores peccant, id recidit in malum plebis.

[ 387 ] A mistake that leaders make turns to trouble for the people.

[ 388 ] Luxuriae multa desunt, avaritiae omnia.

[ 388 ] Extravagance lacks a lot, greed everything.

[ 389 ] Invidiam ferre, aut fortis, aut fortunatus potest.

[ 389 ] Either a brave or a happy person can tolerate ill-will.

[ 390 ] Invidiam enim fortunatus negligit, fortis contemnit.

[ 390 ] For a happy person ignores ill-will, a brave one despises it.

[ 391 ] Ira statim subsidit, odium diuturnum est.

[ 391 ] Anger dissolves right away; hatred lasts a long time.

[ 392 ] Sapientis non est contemnere hostem, quantumvis humilem: potest enim oblata occasione nocere.

[ 392 ] It is a wise person's way not to scorn enemies, no matter how lowly: for they can do damage when the opportunity arises.

[ 393 ] Iudex damnatur, cum nocens absolvitur.

[ 393 ] The judges are condemned when they let the guilty go.

[ 394 ] Quisquis admittit scelus, illico sibi damnatus est judice conscientia, etiamsi judex nemo pronunciet.

[ 394 ] Those who allow a crime condemn themselves then and there before the judge of their conscience, even though no judge renders a verdict.

[ 395 ] Loco ignominiae est apud indignum dignitas.

[ 395 ] High rank constitutes a disgrace for those not worthy of the place.

[ 396 ] Legem nocens veretur, fortunam innocens.

[ 396 ] The guilty fear the law, the innocent their luck.

[ 397 ] Molesta est mora in omni re, tamen ea nos reddit sapientes, ne quid agamus temere aut inconsulto.

[ 397 ] In every matter delay's a bother, yet it makes us wise, so that we don't do anything rashly or recklessly.

[ 398 ] Male vivunt qui semper se victuros putant.

[ 398 ] They live badly who always think they are going to win.

[ 399 ] Minus decipitur, cui negatur celeriter.

[ 399 ] They are less disappointed who quickly get refused.

[ 400 ] Multos timere debet, quem multi timent.

[ 400 ] The one whom many fear ought to fear the many.

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