A Quote by Juvenal
When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long.
[Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]
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Every delay that postpones our joys, is long.
[Lat., Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt.]
To freemen, threats are impotent.
[Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find
A woman's at the bottom.
[Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]
What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire.
[Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.]
Death is not grievous to me, for I shall lay aside my pains by death.
[Lat., Nec mihi mors gravis est posituro morte dolores.]
Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest.
[Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago?
Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.]
It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man."
[Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
[Lat., Nolo virum facili redimit qui sanquine famam;
Hunc volo laudari qui sine morte potest.]
To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
[Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]
No man was ever great without divine inspiration.
[Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]
It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
[Lat., Nimia est miseria nimis pulchrum esse hominem.]
Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
[Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]
Our country is wherever we are well off.
[Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]
Trust not to outward show.
[Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]
I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer.
[Lat., Et idem
Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.]
No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
[Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]
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