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Perversity is the muse of modern literature.
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
[Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.]
As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)
In English the word 'peripatetic' means 'one who walks habitually and extensively.
It was a master surgeon, him that ampytated me - out of college and all - Latin by the bucket, and what not; but he was hanged like a dog, and sun-dried like the rest, at Corso Castle.
Solvitur ambulando ... it is solved by walking.
The body loaded by the excess of yesterday, depresses the mind also, and fixes to the ground this particle of divine breath.
[Lat., Quin corpus onustum
Hesternis vitiis, animum quoque praegravat una
Atque affigit humo divinae particulam aurae.]
Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can blast the flower, Even when in most unwary hour It blooms in Fancy's bower. Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can rend the shrine In which its vermeil splendours shine.
Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
[Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum
Deseruit pede poena claudo.]
discombobulation
Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.
Patient is a persistent act.
Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.
(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)
Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism.
Illegitimi non carborundum --don't let the bastards grind you down
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanocon
may shorten life.
Si Vis Pacem, Para Iustitiam: In order to have peace, you must first have justice.
Shun the inquisitive person, for he is also a talker.
[Lat., Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est.]
Nothing is worse in prison than the consciousness of one's innocenc; it prevents acclimatizatin and undermines one's morale ...
I am not what I once was.
[Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]
The female is, as it were, a mutilated male, and the catamenia are semen, only not pure; for there is only one thing they have not in them, the principle of soul.
Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturae judicia confirmat.
Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.
To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law - a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.
Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet.
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies.
[Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui
Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]
PSEUDO-CHRYSOSTOM. But regard must be had to this, after what sort each man fills his seat; for not the seat makes the Priest, but the Priest the seat; the place does not consecrate the man, but the man the place. A wicked Priest derives guilt and not honour from his Priesthood.
my Clodius, how little your countrymen know of the true versatility of a Pericles, of the true witcheries of an Aspasia!
The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.
Aut Viam Inveniam Aut Faciam.
- I shall either find a way, or make one.
Speramus meliora; resurgret cineribus. We hope for better things; it will rise from the ashes,
Dei sub numine viget, Under God's power she flourishes
Persephone herself is but a voice
or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark
of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with the passion of dense gloom,
among the splendor of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on the
lost bride and her groom.
Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. Curtius Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant
impudicitia in ingenuo crimen est, in servo necessitas, in liberto officium ("to be the object of anal penetration is a crime in the freeborn, a necessity for a slave, a duty for a freedman").
Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.
Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing.
Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.
[Lat., Accedit etiam mors, quae quasi saxum Tantalo semper impendit: tum superstitio, qua qui est imbutus quietus esse numquam potest.]
Antanaclasic, which means that it keeps using the same word in different senses.
Carpe Diam forever after.
I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous; and, after taking the utmost pains that I can to be perspicuous, some obscurity may still appear to remain upon a subject, in its own nature extremely abstracted.
I grew very weary and irritable with the curate's perpetual ejaculations;
Si monumentum requiris circumspice
(If you seek his monument, look around.)
[Epitaph on Wren's tomb in St. Paul's Cathedral]
this word needs to be reworded ==========
Omnia exeunt in mysterium. (All things end in mystery).
The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.
[Lat., Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.]
An exquisite dulcet epithalame of most mollificative suadency for juveniles amatory whom the odoriferous flambeaus of the paranymphs have escorted to the quadrupedal proscenium of connubial communion.
malady of reverie.
He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away.
[Lat., Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.]
E Concrematio. Confirmatio--out ot the fire comes firmness, through stress we pass to strength.
Coimhead feara fhear na foighrde.
(Beware the anger of a patient man)
The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue.
[Lat., Semita certe
Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]
incurable lover of the grotesque
Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness.
[Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae
Celata virtus.]
Nadie me influye, todos contribuyen
[35] Caelum non animum mutant The man who is not content where he is, would never have been content somewhere else, though he might have complained less. Donal Grant, ch. 31
The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.
[It., Lo tuo ver dir m'incuora
Buona umilta e gran tumor m'appiani.]
Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.
[Lat., Multi committunt eadem diverso crimina fato;
Ille crucem scleris pretium tulit, hic diadema.]
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
properispomenon.
Nunc fluens facit tempus,
nunc stans facit aeternitatum.
(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)
Noli me tangere; for Caesar's I am.
A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)
A Companion Picture XII. The Fellow of Delicacy XIII.
The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.
The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.
Retrophrenologist,
Difficile est satiram non scribere
[It is hard not to write a satire]
Temporis ars medicina fere est.
Time is generally the best medicine.
Perseus, you are not the hero.
No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house. [Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest, Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet.
To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
[Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]
Exitus Acta Probat---the outcome justifies the deed.
Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. Lucius Accius, Telephus
Pursuits become habits.
[Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]
While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot.
[Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores.
Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede.]
And to this hour the image of Carmilla returns to mind with ambiguous alterations
sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church; and often from a reverie I have started, fancying I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing room door.
For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught - nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!
He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another's experience.
[Lat., Feliciter sapit qui alieno periculo sapit.]
Nobody ever became depraved all at once.
[Lat., Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.]
... difficile est longum subito deponere amoren, difficile est, uerum hoc qua lubet efficias ... ... it is hard to throw off long-established love: Hard, but this you must manage somehow ...
O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night.
The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of youth, had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the mockery of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile upon the lip which is so terrible in death
Apparuit iam beatitudo vestra' That is, Now your blessedness appears.
Pardon,Periel, like Love, is only ours for fun: essentially we don't and can't.
Non sum qualis eram. I am not what I once was.
Amicu certus in re incerta cernitur'
[A true friend is a friend when in difficulty]
The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
Ratio et prudentia curas,
Non locus effusi late maris arbiter, aufert.
[it is reason and wisdom which take away cares, not places affording wide views over the sea.]
A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things.
[Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]
Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune.
[Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]
condition of the woman
Nemo tam divos habuit faventes,
Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri.
Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.
Cineama, heir of alchemy,
The last erotic science
The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants.
[Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
A dis plura feret.]
Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
Translated 'Non omnia possumus omnus' as 'No possums allowed on the omnibus.
We see that there are two worms that eat the fabric of the Church, weakening Her. Rivalry and vainglory go against this harmony, this agreement.
Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men.
[Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae,
Noctis habent.]
Everything unknown is magnified.
[Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]