Dictionary of quotations (classical) / by Thomas Benfield Harbottle.

Date:
1897
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    Cui semper dederis, ubi negas, rapere imperas.” Publilius Syrus, 105. “ If you refuse where you have always granted, you invite to theft.” “ Cujus autem aures veritati clausae sunt, ut ab amico verum audire nequeat, hujus salus desperanda est.” Cicero. De Amicitia, XXIV., 90. ‘ ‘ When a man’s ears are so closed to the truth that he will not listen to it even from a friend, his condition is desperate.” “ Cujus tu fidem in pecunia perspexeris, Verere verba ei credere ? ” Terence. Phormio, Act I., Sc. II., 10.—(Davus.) “ The man whose faith in money you have tried, D’ye fear to trust with words ? ”—(George Colman.) “ Cujusvis hominis est errare : nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore per- severare.” Cicero. Philippica, XII., 2, 5. “ Every man may err, but no man who is not a fool may persist in error.” “ Errare humanum est.” Melchior de Polignac. Anti-Lucretius, V., 58. ‘‘ To err is human.” “ Culpa quam poena tempore prior, emendari quam peccare posterius est.” Tacitus. Annals, XV:, 20. “ In point of time, guilt conies before punishment, and correction follows after delinquency.”—(Church and Brodribb.) “ Cum autem sublatus fuerit ab oculis, etiam cito transit e mente.” Thomas a Kempis. De Imitatione Christi, I., 23, 1. ‘1 Once he was taken from our sight, his memory quickly passed out of our minds.” “ Cum calceatis dentibus veniam tamen.” Plautus. Captivi, Act I., Sc. II., 84.—(Ergasilus.) “ I’ll come with teeth well shod.”—(Bonnell Thornton.) “ Cum coepit quassata domus subsidere, partes In proclinatas omne recumbit onus, Cunctaque fortuna rimam faciente dehiscunt, Ipsa suo quodam pondere tecta ruunt.” Ovid. Tristia, II., 83. “ When that a house is tottering to its fall, The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part, One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads, And its own weight soon brings it toppling down.” “ Cum dignitate otium.” Cicero. Ad Familiares, I., 9, 21.—(Cf. De Oratore, I., 1, 1.) “ Ease with dignity.” “ Id quod est praestantissimum, maximeque optabile omnibus sanis et bonis et beatis, cum dignitate otium.” Cicero. Pro Sestio, XLV., 98. “ That which stands first, and is most to be desired by all happy, honest, and healthy-minded men, is ease with dignity.”