 | Hannis Taylor - Constitutional history - 1916 - 706 pages
...was ever known to thank the gods for virtue? But for wealth, for honor, for safety, many. Judicium hoc omnium mortalium est, fortunam a deo petendam, a se ipso sumendam esse sapientiam. ni, 36. It is the universal opinion that we may pray the gods for fortune, but must provide ourselves... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1921
...him life, but how to live well, that he hath of himselfe. Like unto this other : In virtute •uere gloriamur, quod non contingeret, si id donum a Deo, non a nobis haberemus (Cic. Nat. Deo. iii.). We rightly vaunt us of vertue, •which we should not doe, if we had it of God,... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - 1921
...him life, but how to live well, that he hath of himselfe. Like unto this other : In virtute •uere gloriamur, quod non contingeret, si id donum a Deo, non a nobis haberemus (Cic. Nat. Deo. Hi.). We rightly vaunt us of vertue, which we should not doe, if we had it of God,... | |
 | Ernest Jauncey - Grace (Theology) - 1925 - 299 pages
...habere ; virtutem autem nemo unquam acceptam deo rettulit. Nimirum recte ; propter virtutem enim jure laudamur et in virtute recte gloriamur ; quod non...contingeret, si id donum a deo, non a nobis haberemus. At vero aut honoribus aucti aut re familiari, aut si aliud quippiam nacti sumus fortuiti boni aut depulimiia... | |
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Nimirum recte ; propter virtutem enim iure laudamur et in virtute recte gloriamur, quod non contingeret, si id donum a deo non a nobis haberemus. 
