A Quote by Juvenal
Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody. Virtue is praised and left to freeze.
[Lat., Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum
Si vis esse aliquis. Probitas laudatur et alget.]
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Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.
[Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]
Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.
It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand.
[Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]
Honesty's praised, then left to freeze.
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip.
[Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]
The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
[Lat., Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt lucri.]
I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.]
[Lat., Laetus sum
Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]
Modesty becomes a young man.
[Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]
In laboring to be concise, I become obscure.
[Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]
Knowest thou not that kings have long hands?
[Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]
It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
[Lat., Nimia est miseria nimis pulchrum esse hominem.]
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
[Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]
I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead.
[Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]
What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born.
[Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?
Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]
The cause is hidden, but the result is known.
[Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]
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