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11 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.
Suus quoque attributus est error: Sed non videmus, manticæ quid in tergo est. Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.— filed under Character
Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illuc unde negant redire quemquam, Who now travels that dark path to the bourne from which they say no one returns.— filed under Death
Soles occidere et redire possunt; Nobis cum semel occidit brevis lux, Nox est perpetua una dormienda. Suns may set and rise; we, when our short day has closed, must sleep on during one never-ending night.— filed under Death
GODS (THE). Omnia fanda, nefanda, malo permista furore, Justificam nobis mentem avertere deorum. The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.— filed under God
Quid datur â divis felici optatius horâ ? What is there given by the gods more desirable than a happy hour?— filed under God
Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured.— filed under Hatred
Nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla est. Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.— filed under Laughter
Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem. It is difficult at once to relinquish a longcherished love.— filed under Love
Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, In vento et rapidâ scribere oportet aquâ. What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water.— filed under Love
LXX. 3. Vivamus, mea Lesbia atque amemus. My Lesbia, let us live and love.— filed under Love
O! quid solutis est beatius curis! Cum mens onus reponit, ac peregrino Labore fessi venimus larem ad nostrum Desideratoque acquiescimus lecto. Hoc est, quod unum est pro laboribus tantis. O, what is more sweet than when the mind, set free from care, lays its burden down; and, when spent with distant travel, we come back to our home, and rest our limbs on the wished-for bed? This, this alone, repays such toils as these!— filed under Rest