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25 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.
Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa virtutum est. Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.— filed under Ambition
For Art is Nature made by Man To Man the interpreter of God. OWEN MEREDITH (Lord Lytton)-The Artist. St. 26. The perfection of art is to conceal art.— filed under Art
Majores fertilissium in agro oculum domini esse dixerunt. Our fathers used to say that the master's eye was the best fertilizer. PLINY the Elder-Historia Naturalis XVIII. 84. Nimis in veritate, et similitudinis quam pulchritudinis amantior. Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.— filed under Care
Mens mutatione recreabitur; sicut in cibis, quorum diversitate reficitur stomachus, et pluribus minore fastidio alitur. Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.— filed under Change
Nihil est periculosius in hominibus mutatâ subito fortunâ. Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.— filed under Character
Maledicus a malefico non distat nisi occasione. An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.— filed under Evil
Nam in omnibus fere minus valent præcepta quam experimenta. In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.— filed under Experience
Præsente fortunâ pejor est futuri metus. Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.— filed under Fortune
Illud ingeniorum velut præcox genus, non temere unquam pervenit ad frugem. It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.— filed under Genius
Frangas enim citius quam corrigas quæ in pravum induerunt. Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.— filed under Habit
Nimium risus pretium est, si probitatis impendio constat. A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.— filed under Laughter
Etiam singulorum fatigatio quamlibet se rudi modulatione solatur. Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.— filed under Music
Diliguntur immodice sola quæ non licent; non nutrit ardorem concupiscendi, ubi frui licet. Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.— filed under Poetry
Est felicibus difficilis miseriarum vera æstimatio. The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.— filed under Prudence
I. 700. Nam et Socrati objiciunt comici, docere eum quomodo pejorem causam meliorem faciat. For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.— filed under Reason
Deus ille princeps, parens rerum fabricatorque mundi, nullo magis hominem separavit a ceteris, quæ quidem mortalia sunt, animalibus, quam dicendi facultate. God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and Architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to disguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.— filed under Speech
Dum omnia quærimus, aliquando ad verum, ubi minime expectavimus, pervenimus. While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.— filed under Truth
Virtus, etiamsi quosdam impetus a naturâ sumit, tamen perficienda doctrinâ est. Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.— filed under War
Non est aliena res, quæ fere ab honestis negligi solet, cura bene ac velociter scribendi. Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.— filed under Youth
Deficit omne quod nascitur. Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.— filed under Beginnings
Illud tamen in primis testandum est, nihil præcepta atque artes valere nisi adjuvante natura. One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.— filed under Capacity
Difficultas patrocinia præteximus segnitiæ. We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.— filed under Indolence
Mutos enim nasci, et egere omni ratione satius fuisset, quam providentiæ munera in mutuam perniciem convertere. For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should em ploy the gifts of Providence to the destruo tion of his neighbor. S.— filed under Misappropriation
Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas. Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.— filed under Satiety
In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit. To swear, except when necessary, is unbecoming to an honorable man.— filed under Swearing