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And so, in the space of a few yards, the sacred springs of Gafsa, those laughing, chattering, amorous waters of the Romans that well up here in a river of warmth and purity, had been reduced to those of a Cloaca Maxima.
Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure.
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Sassicaia from Tuscany,
Humility of the soul; divine.
An olive, with a pit ...
The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
Pestis eram vivus ... moriens tua mors ero - Living, I was your plague ... dying, I shall be your death.
Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. Lucius Accius, Telephus
As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.
Humility is the only soil in which virtue takes root; a lack of humility is the explanation of every defect and failure.
Crito we owe a rooster to Aesculapius
It is humility which has access to the highest regions.
Cucullus non facit monachum; that's as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.
amanuensis. A rapt
the senile, lecherous expression of a camel.
Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.
By wine eating cares are put to flight.
[Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]
Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)
We two [Deucalion and Pyrrha, after the deluge] form a multitude.
[Lat., Nos duo turba sumus.]
Ey oop, nah then, si thi, asta summat simla i' verdigris?
The humpback never sees the hump on his own back.
The abject pleasure of an abject mind
And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind.
[Lat., Vindicta
Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]
Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion.
[Lat., Noli
Barbam vellere mortuo leoni.]
Ad astra per alia porci (to the stars on the wings of a pig)
Atalanta in Calydon
The Federal Department of Odds and Ends: sweepus underum carpetae.
Safety lies in the middle course.
[Lat., Medio tutissimus ibis.]
To pile Pelion upon Olympus.
[Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]
Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?
Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet.
Itterasshai.
Go and come back safely.
Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness.
[Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae
Celata virtus.]
[Humbaba's] sound is like a flood's sound
Slowly forming in the distance,
Then enveloping all other sounds
jessamine. Flowering
When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.
Savage bears keep at peace with one another.
[Lat., Saevis inter se convenit ursis.]
Humility is, nothing but that simple consent of the creature to let God be all, in virtue of which it surrenders itself to His working alone.
Please tell me your master isn't Aeolus."
"That airhead?" Favonius snorted. "No, of course not."
"He means Eros." Nico's voice turned edgy. "Cupid, in Latin."
Favonius smiled. "Very good, Nico di Angelo. I'm glad to see you again, by the way. It's been a long time.
The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis - the most out of the least.
LYSISTRATA May gentle Love and the sweet Cyprian Queen shower seductive charms on our bosoms and all our person. If only we may stir so amorous a feeling among the men that they stand firm as sticks, we shall indeed deserve the name of peace-makers among the Greeks.
Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.
Had a cold hummus with pita bread,
Under a delicious food, yellow or red.
Might just have the appetite to cook
Urgent dinner by hook or crook.
So that's just a humus humor spread.
Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings.
[Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus
Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]
They call you Medusa. One wrong look and your brain turns to stone.
A just fortune awaits the deserving.
[Lat., Fors aequa merentes
Respicit.]
Discourses on humility are a source of pride in the vain and of humility in the humble.
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour.
[Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]
Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith
Casildea de Vandalia, the rawest and best
One wonders what the proper high-brow Romans ... read into the strange utterances of Lucretius or Apuleius or Tertullian, Augustine or Athanasius. The uncanny voice of Iberian Spain, the weirdness of old Carthage, the passion of Libya and North Africa.
Humility accepts the very nature of a human being is complete, unadulterated, ecstatic joy.
Good-bye to the lies of the poets.
[Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]
Marjoram ... Blushes.
Humility is the prize of the leaf-world. Vain-glory is the bane of us, the humans.
I'm gonna hump ya. Like Deputy Dog ... Would hump ya.
They all shared a certain coolness, a cruel, mannered charm which was not modern in the least but had the strange cold breath of the ancient world : they were magnificent creatures, such eyes, such hands, such looks - sic oculos, sic ille manus, sic ora ferebat.
Art for art's sake.
[Lat., Ars gratia artis.]
Artemis simple-toon
Rememberatorium),
His mouth came to hers suddenly, hovering above those thirsting lips as he drilled her with the intensity of his mercury gaze.
"Neliss ... " he murmured, reverting to the elegance of their ancient language. "Neliss ent desita."
Beauty of the ages.
Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.
(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)
Left behind as a memory for us.
[Lat., Nobis meminisse relictum.]
I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.
Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.
Let us not foist this humbug on the world.
Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.
She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.
Hopeless. Freak. Elephant. Pitiful
Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase.
[Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]
Imitations of Horace. Of two evils I have chose the least.
Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
These Atlantikoinonia. They're human? (Acheron)
What else would they be? Turnips? (Tory)
Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
[Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]
TITUS. Hail, Rome, victorious in thy mourning weeds!
Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies.
[Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow.
[Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.]
Mysterium tremendum et fascinans
that stomach- flipping mix of awestruck fear and entrancing fascination.
Humility is the daughter of truth.
Oh, my dear! I'm afraid you've mistaken
me for someone else! My name is Rhea Silvia. I was the mother to Romulus and Remus, thousands of years ago. But you're so kind to think I look as young as the 1950s.
Hear ye not the hum Of mighty workings?
I have commanded that my [titulary] abide like the mountains; when the sun shines its rays are bright upon the titulary of my majesty; my Horus is high upon the standard ... forever.
True humility is contentment.
Humility is the proper attitude towards all true greatness, including one's own greatness as a human being, but above all towards the greatness which is not oneself, which is beyond one's self
Non apibus dubitandem est.
(You never can tell with bees.)
~ Winnie ille Pu
Martyred plants from their shrouds. Their mouths
sunt lacrimae rerum, "There are tears in things.
Humility is unaware of the division of the superior and the inferior, of the Master and the pupil. As
Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors ...
between Scylla and Charybdis,
The ungovernable passion for wealth.
[Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]
Egeria! sweet creation of some heart Which found no mortal resting-place so fair As thine ideal breast.
Wingardium Leviosa!" he shouted, waving his long arms like a windmill.
"You're saying it wrong," Harry heard Hermione snap. "It's Wing-gar-dium Levi-o-sa, make the 'gar' nice and long."
"You do it, then, if you're so clever," Ron snarled.
Crows," Maximus breathed. "Was that who I think it was?"
"Phrygiar Navaris," Tavi said, nodding.
"What was she doing here?" Max asked.
"Getting humiliated, mostly. Especially there at the end.
You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town.
[Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]
Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
[Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]
Persimmius. He is your man. You can find him in the old temple district, close to Shat Swamp.
Of evils one should choose the least.
[Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]