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Misappropriation: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Horrea formicæ tendunt ad inania nunquam, Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes. Ants do not bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth.— OVID — Tristium. I. 9. 9.

Mensque pati durum sustinet ægra nihil. The sick mind can not bear anything harsh.— OVID — Epistolæ Ex Ponto. I. 5. 18.

Mens sola loco non exulat. The mind alone can not be exiled.— OVID — Epistolæ Ex Ponto. IV. 9. 41.

Animus quod perdidit optat, Atque in præteritâ se totus imagine versat. The mind wishes for what it has missed, and occupies itself with retrospective contemplation.— PETRONIUS ARBITER — Satyricon.

Animus æquus optimum est ærumnæ condimentum. A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.— PLAUTUS — Rudens. II. 3.

Habet cerebrum sensus arcem; hic mentis est regimen. The brain is the citadel of the senses: this guides the principle of thought. PLINY the Elder-Historia Naturalis. XI. 49. 2. Valentior omni fortuna animus est: in utramque partem ipse res suas ducit, beatæque miseræ vitæ sibi causa est. The mind is the master over every kind of fortune: itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.— SENECA — Epistolæ Ad Lucilium.

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.— QUINTILIAN — De Institutione Oratorsa.