KINDNESS.

Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter. He confers a kindness twice on a poor man who gives quickly.

MADMAN.

Insanus omnis furere credit cæteros.

Every madman thinks all other men mad.

FAULT.

Invitat culpam, qui delictum præterit.

He who overlooks one fault, invites the commission of another.

THE JUDGE.

Judex damnatur, cum nocens absolvitur.
The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.

MAGNANIMITY.

Magnam fortunam magnus etiam animus decet.
Magnanimity becomes a great fortune.

MISCHIEF.

Malefacere qui vult, nunquam non causam invenit. He, who wishes to do mischief, is never without a reason.

EMPIRE.

Male imperando summum imperium amittitur. The greatest empire may be lost by the misrule of its governors.

MALEVOLENT.

Malevolus animus abditos dentes habet.

The malevolent have secret teeth.

MASTER.

Minor est quam servus, dominus qui servos timet. The master is lower than a servant who dreads his servants.

FORTUNE.

Miserrima est fortuna, quæ inimico caret.

That fortune is most wretched, which is without an enemy.

TO BE KNOWN.

Vis omnibus esse notus, nôris neminem.
You wish to be known to all; you will know no one.

FLATTERY.

Vitium fuit, nunc mos est assentatio.

Flattery, which was formerly a vice, is now a custom.

SHIPWRECK.

Improbe Neptunum accusat, qui iterum naufragium facit.

That man foolishly blames the sea, who is a second time shipwrecked.

RANKS.

Ni gradus servetur, nulli tutus est summus locus. Unless ranks are observed, the highest place is safe to no one.

TO LIVE.

Non aliter vives in solitudine, aliter in foro. You should not live one way in private and another in public. SILENCE.

Sæpius locutum, nunquam me tacuisse pænitet. I regret often that I have spoken, never that I have been silent.

CONVERSATION.

Sermo animi est imago; qualis vir, talis et oratio est. The conversation is the image of the mind. As the man, so is his mode of talking.

HIGHEST.

Si vis ad summum progredi, ab infimo ordire.
If you wish to arrive at the highest, begin from the lowest.

JUPITER.

Quem Jupiter vult perdere, prius dementat.

Whom God wishes to destroy, He first deprives of his senses.

In a note on a fragment of Euripides, there is the following Greek proverb :

Ὅταν δὲ Δαίμων ἀνδρὶ πορσύνη κακά,

Τον νοῦν ἔβλαψε πρῶτον.

When God is contriving misfortunes for man, He first deprives him of his reason.

(See Duport's Gnomologia Homerica, p. 282, (Cantab. 1660.) Athenagoras quotes Greek lines, and renders them in Latin, (p. 121. Oxon. 1682.)

GIVES TWICE.

Bis dat, qui cito dat.

He gives twice, who gives quickly.

(This is supposed to have been copied from Publius Syrus.)

Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.

(This sentiment of Syrus is published, with additional fables of Phædrus, from the Vatican MS., by Angelo Mai.)

WORDS.

Vox et præterea nihil.

Words and nothing more.

(This saying is found in Plutarch's Laconic Apothegms. Plutarchi Opera Moralia, ed. Dan Wyttenbach, vol. i. p. 649.)

SCYLLA.

Incidis in Scyllam, cupiens vitare Charybdim.

You fall into Scylla, desiring to avoid Charybdis.

(This is from Gaultier de Lisle, of the 14th century. The line is extracted from a poem in ten books, called the Alexandriad, at the 301st of the 5th vol.)-See Notes and Queries, vols. i. and ii., for a more detailed account of the four last extracts.

THE END.

FOLLY.

Contemni gravius est stultitiæ quam percuti. To folly it is more grievous to be despised than to be struck.

THE FORTUNATE.

Contra felicem vix Deus vires habet.
Even God can scarcely get the better of the fortunate.
REPUTATION.

Damnum appellandum est cum malâ famâ lucrum. The gain which is made at the expense of reputation should be set down as a loss.

OPPORTUNITY.

Deliberando sæpe perit occasio.

While we are deliberating, the opportunity is often lost.

DELIBERATION.

Deliberandum est diu, quod statuendum est semel. That should be considered long which can be decided but once.

ACCUSATIONS.

Difficilem oportet aurem habere ad crimina.
We should not lend an easy ear to accusations.

DAYS.

Discipulus est priori posterior dies.

Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which preceded.

WAR.

Diu apparandum est bellum, ut vincas celerius. Preparations for war are to be made for a long time before, that you may more quickly conquer.

PAIN.

Dolor animi gravior est, quam corporis dolor.
The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

TO FORGET.

Etiam oblivisci, quod scis, interdum expedit.
It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know.

A WOUND.

Etiam sanato vulnere cicatrix manet.
Even after a wound is healed the scar remains.

DIGNITY.

Facilius crescit quam inchoatur dignitas.

It is more easy to obtain an accession of dignity, than to acquire it in the first instance.

TRIAL.

Fatetur facinus is, qui judicium fugit.
He who flies from trial confesses his crime.

PROSPERITY.

Felicitas nutrix est iracundiæ.

Prosperity is the nurse of passion.

FAITH.

Fides, ut anima, unde abiit, eo nunquam redit.
Faith, like the soul, never returns when it has once gone.

COUNTENANCE.

Formosa facies muta commendatio est.
A pleasing countenance is a silent commendation.

FORTUNE.

Fortuna nimium quem fovet, stultum facit. Fortune, when she caresses a man too much, makes him a fool.

FORTUNE.

Fortuna vitrea est, tum, cum splendet, frangitur. Fortune is brittle as glass; at the very time she shines, she is broken.

PATIENCE.

Furor fit læsa sæpius patientia.

Patience, when too often outraged, is converted into madness.

REMEDIES.

Graviora quædam sunt remedia periculis.

Some remedies are worse than the disease.