Riches do not exhilarate us so much by their possession as they torment us with their loss. Gregory.
Riches fineless is as poor as winter / To him that ever fears he shall be poor. Othello, iii. 3.
Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them. Plutarch.
Riches have made mair men covetous than covetousness has made men rich. Sc. Pr.
Riches have wings. Pr. 25
Riches profit not in the day of wrath. Bible.
Riches take peace from the soul, but rarely, if ever, confer it. Petrarch.
Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away, but love stays with us. Love is God. Lew Wallace.
Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one. Feltham.
Richt wrangs nae man. Sc. Pr. 30
Richter sollen zwei gleiche Ohren haben—Judges should have two ears, both alike. Ger. Pr.
Ride si sapis—Laugh, if you are wise. Mart.
Ridentem dicere verum / Quid vetat?—Why may a man not speak the truth in a jocular vein? Hor.
Ridere in stomacho—To laugh inwardly, i.e., in one's sleeve.
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. 35 Addison.
Ridet argento domus—The house is smiling with silver. Hor.
Ridetur chorda qui semper oberrat eadem—He is laughed at who is for ever harping away on the same string. Hor.
Ridicule has ever been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success. Goldsmith.
Ridicule intrinsically is a small faculty; we may say, the smallest of all faculties that other men are at the pains to repay with any esteem. It is directly opposed to thought, to knowledge, properly so called; its nourishment and essence is denial, which hovers on the surface, while knowledge dwells far below. Carlyle.
Ridicule is a weak weapon when levelled at a 40 strong mind; but common men are cowards, and dread an empty laugh. Tupper.
Ridicule, while it often checks what is absurd, fully as often smothers that which is noble. Scott.
Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance and adopted by folly. Smollett.
Ridiculum acri / Fortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res—Ridicule often settles matters of importance better and more effectually than severity. Hor.
Ridiculus æque nullus est, quam quando esurit—No man is so facetious as when he is hungry. Plaut.
Rien de plus éloquent que l'argent comptant—Nothing 45 is more eloquent than ready money. Fr. Pr.
Rien de plus hautain qu'un homme médiocre devenu puissant—Nothing is more haughty than a common-place man raised to power. Fr. Pr.
Rien n'a qui assez n'a—Who has nothing has not enough. Fr. Pr.
Rien n'arrive pour rien—Nothing happens for nothing. Fr. Pr.
Rien n'empêche tant d'être naturel que l'envie de la paraître—Nothing so much prevents one from being natural as the desire to appear so. La Roche.
Rien n'est beau que le vrai; le vrai seul est 50 aimable—Nothing is beautiful but the true; the true alone is lovely. Boileau.
Rien n'est plus estimable que la civilité; mais rien de plus ridicule, et de plus à charge, que la cérémonie—Nothing is more estimable then politeness, and nothing more ridiculous or tiresome than ceremony. Fr.
Rien n'est plus rare que la véritable bonté; ceux même qui croient en avoir n'ont d'ordinaire que de la complaisance ou de la faiblesse—Nothing is rarer than real goodness; those even who think they possess it are generally only good-natured and weak. La Roche.
Rien n'est si dangereux qu'un indiscret ami; / Mieux vaudroit un sage ennemi—Nothing more dangerous than an imprudent friend; a prudent enemy would be better.
Rien ne déconcerte plus efficacement les desseins des pervers, que la tranquillité des grands cœurs—Nothing so effectively baffles the schemes of evil men so much as the calm composure of great souls. Mirabeau.
Rien ne m'est sûr que la chose incertaine—There is nothing certain but the uncertain. Fr.
Rien ne manque à sa gloire; il manquait à la nôtre—Nothing is wanting to his glory; he was wanting to ours. Inscription on the bust of Molière, which was placed in the Academy in 1773.
Rien ne pèse tant qu'un secret—Nothing presses so heavy on us as a secret. La Fontaine.
Rien ne peut arrêter sa vigilante audace. / L'été n'a point de feux, l'hiver n'a point de glace—Nothing can check his watchful daring. For him the summer has no heat, the winter no ice. Boileau of Louis XIV.
Rien ne ressemble plus à un honnête homme 5 qu'un fripon—Nothing resembles an honest man more than a rogue. Fr. Pr.
Rien ne réussit mieux que le succès—Nothing succeeds like success.
Rien ne s'anéantit; non, rien, et la matière, / Comme un fleuve éternel, roule toujours entière—Nothing is annihilated, no, nothing; matter, like an ever-flowing stream, still rolls on undiminished. Boucher.
Rien ne s'arrête pour nous—Nothing anchors itself fast for us. Pascal.
Rien ne sert de courir: il faut partir à point—It's no use running; only setting out betimes. La Fontaine.
Rien ne vaut poulain s'il ne rompt son lien—A 10 colt is nothing worth if it does not break its halter. Fr. Pr.
Rien que s'entendre—Nothing but good understanding. Said of friendship.
Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past. T. Edwards.
Right ethics are central, and go from the soul outward. Gift is contrary to the law of the universe. Emerson.
Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom. Emerson.
Right is right, since God is God. Faber. 15
Right wrongs no man. Pr.
Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people. Bible.
Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way. Bible.
Rightly, poetry is organic. We cannot know things by words and writing, but only by taking a central position in the universe and living in its forms. Emerson.
Rightly to be great / Is not to stir without 20 great argument, / But greatly to find quarrel in a straw / When honour's at the stake. Ham., iv. 4.
Rigour pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good; as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly. Schiller.
Rinasce più gloriosa—It rises more glorious than ever. M.
Riñen las comadres y dicense las verdades—Gossips quarrel and tell the truth. Sp. Pr.
Ring out the old, ring in the new, / Ring, happy bells, across the snow! Tennyson.
Ripening love is the stillest; the shady flowers 25 in this spring, as in the other, shun sunlight. Jean Paul.
Rira bien qui rira le dernier—He laughs well who laughs the last. Fr. Pr.
Rire à gorge déployée—To laugh immoderately. Fr.
Rire dans sa barbe—To laugh in one's sleeve.
Rise, Christopher! thou hast found thy King, and turn / Back to the earth, for I have need of thee. / Thou hast sustained the whole world, bearing me, / The Lord of earth and heaven. Lewis Morris.
Rise up before the hoary head, and honour 30 the face of the old man. Bible.
Rising genius always shoots forth its rays from among clouds and vapours, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady and meridian lustre. Washington Irving.
Rising to great place is by a winding stair. Bacon.
Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est—Nothing is more silly than silly laughter. Cat.
Risum teneatis, amici?—Can you refrain from laughter, my friends? Hor.
Risus abundat in ore stultorum—Laughter is 35 common in the mouth of fools.
Rivalem patienter habe—Bear patiently with a rival. Ovid.
Rivers are roads which travel, and which carry us whither we wish to go. Pascal.
Rivers cannot fill the sea, that, drinking, thirsteth still. Christina Rossetti.
Rivers flow with sweet waters; but, having joined the ocean, they become undrinkable. Hitopadesa.
Rivers need a spring. Pr. 40
Roads are many; authentic finger-posts are few. Carlyle.
Roast meat at three fires; as soon as you've basted one, another's burnin'. George Eliot.
Rob not the poor, because he is poor. Bible.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul. Pr.
Robespierre à pied et à cheval—Robespierre 45 on foot and on horseback, i.e., Robespierre and Napoleon. Mme. de Staël.
Rock of ages, cleft for me, / Let me hide myself in thee. Toplady.
Rock'd in the cradle of the deep, / I lay me down in peace to sleep. Emma Willard.
Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd. Milton.
Rogner les ailes à quelqu'un—To clip one's wings. Fr.
Rogues are always found out in some way. 50 Whoever is a wolf will act as a wolf; that is the most certain of all things. La Fontaine.
Roi fainéant—A do-nothing king. Fr.
Roland for an Oliver, i.e., one audacity capped by a greater.
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! / Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; / Man marks the earth with ruin,—his control / Stops with the shore. Byron.
Roma locuta est; causa finita est—Rome has spoken; the case is at an end.
Romæ rus optas, absentem rusticus urbem / 55 Tollis ad astra levis—At Rome you pine unsettled for the country, in the country you laud the distant city to the skies. Hor.
Romæ Tibur amem, ventosus, Tibure Romam—Fickle as the wind, I love Tibur when at Rome, and Rome when at Tibur. Hor.
Romance and novel paint beauty in colours more charming than Nature, and describe a happiness that man never tastes. How delusive, how destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! Goldsmith.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love. I. Disraeli.
Romance is the poetry of literature. Mme. Necker.
Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon to its prospect.... The palace that grew up in a night merely awakens a wish to live in it. The impossibilities of fifty years are the common-places of five. Willmott.
Romance, like a ghost, eludes touching; it is 5 always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but is poetry in memory. G. W. Curtis.
Romam cuncta undique atrocia aut pudenda confluunt celebranturque—All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome. Tac.
Rome (room) indeed, and room enough, / When there is in it but one only man. Jul. Cæs., i. 2.
Rome n'est plus dans Rome; elle est toute où je suis—Rome is no longer in Rome; it is all where I am. Corn.
Rome was not built in one day. Heywood.
Root away / The noisome weeds, which without 10 profit suck / The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers. Rich. II., iii. 4.
Rore vixit more cicadæ—He lived upon dew like a grasshopper. Pr.
Roses fall, but the thorns remain. Dut. Pr.
Roses fair on thorns do grow: / And they tell me even so / Sorrows into virtues grow. Dr. W. Smith.
Roses grow among thorns. Pr.
Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; / 15 Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun. Shakespeare.
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for pebbles. Sir Thomas Browne.
Round numbers are always false. Johnson.
Round the world, but never in it. Pr. of sailors.
Rouge et noir—A game of cards (lit. red and black). See Nuttall.
Ruat cœlum, fiat voluntas tua—Thy will be 20 done though the heavens should fall.
Rude am I in my speech, / And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace. Othello, i. 3.
Rudis indigestaque moles—A rude and unarranged mass. Ovid.
Ruh kommt aus Unruh, und wieder Unruh aus Ruh—Rest comes from unrest, and unrest again from rest. Ger. Pr.
Ruhe ist die erste Bürgerpflicht—Peace is the first duty of a citizen. Count Schulenburg-Kehnert after the battle of Jena.
Rühre die Laute nicht, wenn ringums Trommeln 25 erschallen; / Führen Narren das Wort, schweiget der Weisere still—Touch not the lute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent. Herder.
Ruin is most fatal when it begins from the bottom. Goldsmith.
Ruins are mile-stones on the road of time. Chamfort.
Ruins are the broken eggshell of a civilisation which time has hatched and devoured. Julia W. Howe.
Rule, Britannia, Britannia rules the waves; / Britons never shall be slaves. Thomson.
Rule youth weel and age will rule itsel'. Sc. Pr. 30
Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire. Mme. Dudevant.
Rumour is a pipe / Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures; / And of so easy and so plain a stop / That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, / The still-discordant wavering multitude, / Can play upon it. 2 Hen. IV., Induc.
Run here or there, thou wilt find no rest, but in humble subjection to the government of a superior. Thomas à Kempis.
Rus in urbe—Country in town. Mart.
Ruse contre ruse—Diamond cut diamond. Fr. 35
Ruse de guerre—A stratagem. Fr.
Rust consumes iron, and envy consumes itself. Dan. Pr.
Rust wastes more than use. Fr. Pr.
Rustica veritas—Rustic veracity.
Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille / 40 Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis ævum—The peasant waits until the river shall cease to flow; but still it glides on, and will glide on for all time to come. Hor.
S'abstenir pour jouir, c'est l'épicurisme de la raison—To abstain so as to enjoy is the epicurism of reason. Rousseau.
'S gibt kein schöner Leben als Studentenleben—There is no more beautiful life than that of the student. Fr. Albrecht.
S'il est vrai, il peut être—It may be, if it is true. Fr. Pr.
S'il fait beau, prends ton manteau; s'il pleut, prends-le si tu veux—If the weather is fine, take your cloak; if it rains, do as you please. Fr. Pr.
S'il y a beaucoup d'art à savoir parler à propos, 45 il n'y en a pas moins à savoir se taire—If it requires great tact to know how to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent. La Roche.
S'il y avait un peuple de dieux, il se gouvernerait démocratiquement. Un gouvernement si parfait ne convient pas des hommes—If there were a community of gods, the government would be democratic. A government so perfect is not suitable for men. Rousseau.
'S ist nichts so schlimm, als man wohl denkt / Wenn man's nur recht erfasst und lenkt—There is nothing so bad as we think it if only we would apprehend and guide it aright. Friedrich-Flotow.
'S wird besser gehen! 's wird besser gehen! / Die Welt ist rund und muss sich drehen—Things will mend! will mend! The world is round, and must needs spin round. Wohlbrück-Marschner.
Saat, dich säet der Herr dem grossen Tage der Ernte—Seed, the Lord sows thee for the great day of harvest. Klopstock.
Saat, von Gott gesäet, dem Tage der Garben zu reifen—Seed sown by God, to ripen against the day of the sheaf-binding. Klopstock.
Sabbath-days, quiet islands on the tossing sea of life. S. W. Duffield.
Sabbath profaned, / Whate'er may be gained, / Is sure to be followed by sorrow. Pr.
Sabbath well spent / Brings a week of content. 5 Pr.
Sacco pieno rizza l'orecchio—A full sack pricks up (lit. erects) its ear. It. Pr.
Sacred courage indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world; that he is aiming neither at self nor comfort, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought in his mind. Emerson.
Sacrifice is the first element of religion, and resolves itself, in theological language, into the love of God. Froude.
Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest. Amiel.
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, 10 has never been the law of societies. Amiel.
Sacrificed his life to the delineating of life. Goethe, of Schiller.
Sacrificio dell' intelletto—Sacrifice of intellect. Frederick the Great to D'Alembert.
Sad natures are most tolerant of gaiety. Amiel.
Sad souls are slain in merry company. / Grief best is pleased with grief's society; / True sorrow then is feelingly sufficed / When with like semblance it is sympathised. Shakespeare.
Sad wise valour is the brave complexion / 15 That leads the van and swallows up the cities. George Herbert.
Sad with the whole of pleasure. D. G. Rossetti.
Sadness and gladness succeed each other. Pr.
Sae rantingly, sae wantonly, / Sae dauntingly gaed he; / He play'd a spring, and danced it round, / Beneath the gallows-tree. Burns.
Säen ist nicht so beschwerlich als ernten—Sowing is not so difficult as reaping. Goethe.
Sæpe decipimur specie recti—We are often misled 20 by the appearance of truth. Hor.
Sæpe est etiam sub palliolo sordido sapientia—Wisdom is often found even under a shabby coat. Pr.
Sæpe Faunorum voces exauditæ, / Sæpe visæ formæ deorum—Voices of Fauns are often heard, and shapes of gods often seen.
Sæpe in conjugiis fit noxia, cum nimia est dos—Quarrels often arise in marriages when the dowry is excessive. Auson.
Sæpe ingenia calamitate intercidunt—Genius often goes to waste through misfortune. Phæd.
Sæpe nihil inimicus homini quam sibi ipse—Often 25 a man is his own worst enemy. Cic.
Sæpe premente Deo, fert Deus alter opem—Often when we are oppressed by one deity, another comes to our help.
Sæpe stylum vertas, iterum quæ digna legi sint / Scripturus; neque, te ut miretur turba, labores / Contentus paucis lectoribus—You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and labour not for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers. Hor.
Sæpe summa ingenia in occulto latent—The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight. Plaut.
Sæpe tacens vocem verbaque vultus habet—Often a silent countenance is expressive (lit. has a voice and speaks). Ovid.
Sæpe via obliqua præstat quam tendere recta—It 30 is often better to go the circuitous way than the direct one.
Sæpius ventis agitatur ingens / Pinus, et celsæ graviore casu / Decidunt turres, feriuntque summos / Fulmina montes—The huge pine is more frequently shaken by the winds, high towers fall with a heavier crash, and it is the mountain-tops that the thunderbolts strike. Hor.
Sæva paupertas, et avitus apto cum lare fundus—Stern poverty, and an ancestral piece of land with a dwelling to match. Hor.
Sævi inter se conveniunt ursi—Even savage bears agree among themselves. Juv.
Sævis tranquillus in undis—Calm in the raging waters. M. of William I. of Orange.
Safe bind, safe find. Pr. 35
Sag' eine Lüge, so hörst du die Wahrheit—Tell a lie, you will then hear the truth. Ger. Pr.
Sahest du nie die Schönheit im Augenblicke des Leidens, / Niemals hast du die Schönheit gesehn. / Sahest du die Freude nie in einem schönen Gesichte, / Niemals hast du die Freude gesehn—If thou hast never seen beauty in the moment of suffering, thou hast never seen beauty at all. If thou hast never seen joy in a beautiful countenance, thou hast never seen joy at all. Schiller.
Said will be a little ahead, but Done should follow at his heel. Spurgeon.
Saint cannot, if God will not. Fr. Pr.
Saints are sad, because they behold sin (even 40 when they speculate) from the point of view of the conscience, and not of the intellect. Emerson.
Sal atticum—Attic salt; wit.
Sal sapit omnia—Salt seasons everything. M.
Salle-à-manger—A dining-room. Fr.
Salon—A drawing-room; a picture gallery or exhibition. Fr.
Salt and bread make the cheeks red. Ger. Pr. 45
Salt is good, but if the salt have lost its savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. Jesus.
Salt is white and pure; there is something holy in salt. Hawthorne.
Salt spilt is never all gathered up. Sp. and Port. Pr.
Saltabat elegantius, quam necesse est probæ—She danced more daintily than a virtuous woman should. Sall., of Sempronia.
Salus per Christum redemptorem—Salvation 50 through Christ the Redeemer. M.
Salus populi suprema est lex—The well-being of the people is the supreme law. L.
Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. / Dare to look in thy chest, for 'tis thine own, / And tumble up and down what thou find'st there. George Herbert.
Salva conscientia—Without compromise of conscience.
Salva dignitate—Without compromising one's dignity.
Salva fide—Without breaking one's word.
Salve, magna parens—Hail! thou great parent! Virg.
Salvo jure—Saving the right.
Salvo ordine—Without dishonour to one's order.
Salvo pudore—With a proper regard to decency. 5
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. Petrarch.
Sammle dich zu jeglichem Geschäfte, / Nie zersplittre deine Kräfte—Gather thyself up for every task, never dissipate (lit. split up) thy powers. Bodenstedt.
Samson was a strong man, but he could not pay money before he got it. Ger. Pr.
Sanan llagas, y no malas palabras—Wounds heal, but not ill words. Sp. Pr.
Sands form the mountains, moments make the 10 year. Young.
Sane baro—A baron indeed. M.
Sang-froid—Indifference; apathy; coolness. Fr.
Sanno più un savio ed un matto che un savio solo—A wise man and a fool know more than a wise man alone. It. Pr.
Sans changer—Without changing. Fr.
Sans Dieu rien—Nothing without God. Fr. 15
Sans façon—Without ceremony. Fr.
Sans le goût, le génie n'est qu'une sublime folie. Ce toucher sûr par qui la lyre ne rend que le son qu'elle doit rendre, est encore plus rare que la faculté qui crée—Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch by which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself. Chateaubriand.
Sans les femmes les deux extrémités de la vie seroient sans secours, et le milieu sans plaisir—Without woman the two extremities of life would be destitute of succour, and the middle without pleasure. Fr.
Sans peur et sans reproche—Fearless and blameless. Surname of the Chevalier Bayard.
Sans phrase—Without phrase; without amplification; 20 simply. Fr.
Sans Souci—"No bother" here. Name given by Frederick the Great to his country-house at Potsdam.
Sans tache—Without stain. M.
Sanctio justa, jubens honesta, et prohibens contraria—A just decree, enforcing what is honourable and forbidding the contrary. Bracton.
Sanctum est vetus omne poema—Every old poem is sacred. Hor.
Sic vos non vobis—Thus do ye labour not for 25 yourselves. Virg.
Sanctum sanctorum—Holy of holies; a study; a private room.
Sanctus haberi / Justitiæque tenax, factis dictisque mereris? / Agnosco procerem—If you deserve to be held a man without blame, and tenacious of justice both in word and deed, then I recognise in you the nobleman. Juv.
Sapere aude—Dare to be wise. M.
Sapere isthac ætate oportet, qui sunt capite candido—They who have grey heads are old enough to be wise. Plaut.
Sapiens dominabitur astris—A wise man will 30 lord it over the stars. Pr.
Sapiens nihil facit invitus, nihil dolens, nihil coactus—A wise man does nothing against his will, nothing with repining or under coercion. Cic.
Sapiens qui prospicit—He is wise who looks ahead. M.
Sapientem pascere barbam—To cultivate a philosophic beard. Hor.
Sapienti sat—Enough for a wise man. Plaut.
Sapientissimus in septem—The wisest of the 35 seven, viz., Thales. Cic.
Sapientum octavus—The eighth of the wise men. Hor.
Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer. Byron.
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil. Carlyle.
Sarcasm poisons reproof. E. Wigglesworth.
Sardonicus risus—A sardonic laugh; a forced 40 ironical laugh.
Sartor resartus—The tailor patched.
Sat cito si sat bene—Quick enough, if well enough. Cato.
Sat pulchra, si sat bona—Fair enough, if good enough.
Satan finds some mischief still / For idle hands to do. Watts.
Satan's friendship reaches to the prison door. 45 Pr.
Satan himself is now transformed into an angel of light. St. Paul.
Satan now is wiser than of yore, / And tempts by making rich, not making poor. Pope.
Satan trembles when he sees / The weakest saint upon his knees. Cowper.
Satiety comes of riches, and contumaciousness of satiety. Solon.
Satire has a power of fascination that no other 50 written thing possesses. S. Lane-Poole.
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. Swift.
Satire should, like a polished razor keen, / Wound with a touch that is scarcely seen. Lady M. Montagu.
Satires run faster than panegyrics. Pr.
Satis diu vel naturæ vel gloriæ—Long enough for the demands both of nature or of glory.
Satis eloquentiæ, sapientiæ parum—Fine talk 55 enough, but little wisdom. Sall.
Satis est orare Jovem, quæ donat et aufert; / Det vitam, det opes, æquum mi animum ipse parabo—It is enough to pray to Jove for those things which he gives and takes away; let him grant life, let him grant wealth; I myself will provide myself with a well-poised mind. Hor.
Satis quod sufficit—Enough is as good as a feast (lit. what suffices is enough).
Satis superque est—Enough, and more than enough.
Satis superque me benignitas tua / Ditavit—Your bounty has enriched me enough, and more than enough. Hor.
Satis verborum—Enough of words. 60
Satis vixi; invictus enim morior—I have lived enough; I die unvanquished. Epaminondas in Corn. Nep.
Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence. Schopenhauer.
Satius est recurrere, quam currere male—It is better to run back than run on the wrong way. Pr.
Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Pr.
Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, et idem / Immemor antiqui vulneris arma capit—The wounded gladiator forswears fighting, and yet, forgetful of his former wound, he takes up arms again.
Säume nicht, dich zu erdreisten, / Wenn die Menge zaudernd schweift; / Alles kann der Edle leisten / Der versteht und rasch ergreift—If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike thou in swift with all boldness; the noble heart that understands and seizes quick hold of opportunity can achieve everything. Goethe.
Sauter du coq à l'âne!—To change the subject 5 abruptly; to talk at cross purposes.
Sauve qui peut—Save himself who can.
Save a man from his friends, and leave him to struggle with his enemies. (?)
Save a thief from the gallows, and he'll cut your throat. Pr.
Save me, and hover o'er me with your wings, / You heavenly guards. Ham., iii. 4.
Save something for a sore foot. Pr. 10
Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois—To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. Richelieu.
Savoir-faire—Skill; tact.
Savoir-vivre—Good breeding; good manners. Fr.
Savor (desire) no more than thee behoven shall, / Rede well thyself that other folks can rede, / And truth thee shalt deliver—'tis no drede. Chaucer.
Say little and say well. Gael. Pr. 15
Say nay, and take it. Pr.
Say no ill of the year till it be past. Pr.
Say not always what you know, but always know what you say. Claudius.
Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me; I will render to the man according to his work. Bible.
Say not, / This with that lace will do well; / 20 But, This with my discretion will be brave. George Herbert.
Say not to-morrow; the tongue's slightest slip / Nemesis watches, ere it pass the lip. Antiphilus.
Say not, We will suffer, for that ye must; say rather, We will act, for that ye must not (i.e., we are compelled to do the one, but not the other). Jean Paul.
Say nothing, and none can criticise thee. Spurgeon.
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you wilt be taken at your word. Joseph Roux.
Say, O wise man, how thou hast come by such 25 knowledge? Because I never was ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others. Herder.
"Say well" is good, but "Do well" is better. Pr.
Say well or be still. Pr.
Say, what is taste, but the internal pow'rs / Active and strong, and feelingly alive / To each fine impulse? Akenside.
Saying and doing are two different things. Pr.
Scald not thy lips with another man's porridge. 30 Pr.
Scandal breeds hatred, hatred begets divisions, division makes faction, and faction brings ruin. Quarles.
Scandal ever improves by opposition. Goldsmith.
Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise. W. B. Clulow.
Scandal, like the Nile, is fed by innumerable streams, and it is extremely difficult to trace it to its source. Punch.
Scandal will not rub out like dirt when it is 35 dry. Pr.
Scandalum magnatum—An offence against the nobility or a person in high station. L.
Scarcely anything is perfectly plain but what is also perfectly common. Carlyle.
Scarcely love's utmost may in heaven be; / To hell it reacheth, so 'tis love at all. Louise S. Bevington.
Scarcely one man in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. Fielding.
Scarceness is what there is the biggest stock 40 of in the country. George Eliot.
Scarceness o' victual 'ull keep; there's no need to be hasty wi' the cooking. George Eliot.
Scatter with one hand, gather with two. Pr.
Scelere velandum est scelus—One crime has to be concealed by another. Sen.
Scepticism has never founded empires, established principles, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been men of faith. Chapin.
Scepticism is not an end but a beginning, is as 45 the decay of old ways of believing, the preparation afar off for new, wider, and better. Carlyle.
Scepticism is the attitude assumed by the student in relation to the particulars which society adores; but which he sees to be reverent only in their tendency and spirit. Emerson.
Scepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. Emerson.
Scepticism means not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt; all sorts of infidelity, insincerity, and spiritual paralysis. Carlyle.
Scepticism, with its innumerable mischiefs, what is it but the sour fruit of a most blessed increase, that of knowledge; a fruit, too, that will not always continue sour. (?)
Scepticism writing about belief may have great 50 gifts; but it is really ultra vires there. It is blindness laying down the laws of optics. Carlyle.
Schadet ein Irrtum wohl? Nicht immer! aber das Irren / Immer schadet's. Wie sehr, sieht man am Ende des Wegs—Does an error do harm you ask? Not always! but going wrong always does. How far we shall certainly find out at the end of the road. Goethe.
Schall und Rauch umnebeln Himmels-Gluth—Sound and smoke overclouding heaven's splendour. Goethe.
Schäme dich deines Handwerks nicht—Think no shame of your craft. Ger. Pr.
Schwärmerei—An enthusiasm with which one or a mass of people is infected. Ger.
Scheiden, ach Scheiden, Scheiden thut weh!—Parting, ah! parting; parting makes the heart ache. Herloszsohn.
Scherze nicht mit Ernst—Jest not in earnest. M.
Schick dich in die Zeit—Adapt yourself to the times. Ger. Pr.
Schicksal und eigene Schuld—Fate and one's own deservings.
Schlägt die Zeit dir manche Wunde, / Manche 5 Freude bringt ihr Lauf; / Aber eine sel'ge Stunde / Wiegt ein Jahr von Schmerzen auf—If time inflicts on thee many a wound, many a joy brings it too in its course; and one short hour of bliss outweighs a year of pains. Geibel.
Schlägt dir die Hoffnung fehl, nie fehle dir das Hoffen! / Ein Thor ist zugethan, doch tausend sind dir offen—Though thou art disappointed in a hope, never let hope fail thee; though one door is shut, there are thousands still open for thee. Rückert.
Schlagt ihn tot den Hund! Er ist Rezensent—Strike the dog dead! it's but a critic. Goethe.
Schlechtes sucht mit Gutem Streit—Bad keeps up a strife with good. Bodenstedt.
Schliesst eure Herzen sorgfältiger, als eure Thore—Be more careful to keep the doors of your heart shut than the doors of your house. Goethe.
Schmerz und Liebe ist des Menschen Teil / 10 Der dem Weltgeschick nicht feig entwichen, / Zieht er aus dem Busen sich den Pfeil, / Ist er für die Welt und Gott verblichen—Pain and love are the portion of the man who does not like a coward shirk the world's destiny; if he plucks the arrow from his breast, he becomes as one dead for the world and God. N. Lenau.
Scholars are frequently to be met with who are ignorant of nothing saving their own ignorance. Zimmermann.
Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power. J. G. Holland.
Schön ist der Friede! Ein lieblicher Knabe / Liegt er gelagert am ruhigen Bach.... / Aber der Krieg auch hat seine Ehre, / Der Beweger des Menschensgeschicks—Beautiful is Peace! A lovely boy lies he reclining by a quiet rill. But war too has its honour, the promoter as it is of the destiny of man. Schiller.
Schön sind die Rosen eurer Jugend; / Allein die Zeit zerstöret sie. / Nur die Talente, nur die Tugend / Veralten nicht und sterben nie—Beautiful are the roses of your youth; but time destroys them; only talents, only virtue age not and never die. Pfeffel.
Schöne Blumen stehen nicht lange am Wege—Fair 15 flowers are not left standing long by the wayside. Ger. Pr.
Schönheit bändigt allen Zorn—Beauty allays all angry feeling. Goethe.
Schrecklich blicket ein Gott, da wo Sterbliche weinen—Dreadful looks a God, where mortals weep. Goethe.
Schuim is geen bier—Froth is no beer. Dut. Pr.
Schweig, oder rede etwas, das ist besser denn Schweigen—Be silent, or say something that is better than silence. Ger. Pr.
Schweigen ist das Heiligthum der Klugheit. 20 Es birgt nicht bloss Geheimnisse, sondern auch Fehler—Silence is the sanctuary of prudence. It conceals not merely secrets, but blemishes. Zachariä.
Schweigen können zeugt von Kraft, schweigen wollen von Nachsicht, schweigen müssen vom Geist der Zeit—To be able to be silent testifies of power, to will to be silent of indulgence, to be obliged to be silent of the spirit of the time. C. J. Weber.
Schwer ist es, aus dem Geschrei erhitzter Parteien die Stimme der Wahrheit zu unterscheiden—It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamour raised by heated partisans. Schiller.
Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge. Emerson.
Science corrects the old creeds ... and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses. Emerson.
Science deals exclusively with things as they 25 are in themselves. Ruskin.
Science dissects death. F. W. Robertson.
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Emerson.
Science falsely so called. St. Paul.
Science must have originated in the feeling of something being wrong. Carlyle.
Science has been seriously retarded by the 30 study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable. Goethe.
Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film. Carlyle.
Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty. C. H. Parkhurst.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he has common-sense on the ground-floor. But if a man has not got plenty of good common-sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient. Holmes.
Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings. Bulwer Lytton.
Science is busy with the hither-end of 35 things, not the thither-end. C. H. Parkhurst.
Science / Is but an exchange of ignorance for that / Which is another kind of ignorance. Byron.
Science is for those who learn, poetry for those who know. J. Roux.
Science is nothing but trained and organised common sense. Huxley.
Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit. Moses Harvey.
Science is the knowledge of constant things, 40 not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts. Ruskin.
Science is the systematic classification of experience. G. H. Lewes.
Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor. Ruskin.
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; (but) a creed is always sensitive. Froude.
Science sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified. Hare.
Scientia nihil aliud est quam veritatis imago—Science is but an image of the truth. Bacon.
Scientia popinæ—The art of cookery.
Scientia quæ est remota a justitia, calliditas 5 potius quam sapientia est appellanda—Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom. Cic.
Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man. Disraeli.
Scientific truth is marvellous, but moral truth is divine; and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. Horace Mann.
Scilicet expectes, ut tradet mater honestos / Atque alios mores, quam quos habet?—Can you expect that the mother will teach good morals or others than her own. Juv.
Scinditur incertum studia in contraria vulgus—The wavering multitude is divided into opposite factions. Virg.
Scio cui credidi—I know in whom I have believed. 10 M.
Scio: tu coactus tua voluntate es—I know it; you are constrained by your inclination. Ter.
Scire facias—Cause it to be known. L.
Scire potestates herbarum usumque medendi—To know the virtues of herbs and their use in healing. Virg.
Scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter—It is nothing for you to know a thing unless another knows that you know it. Pers.
Scire ubi aliquid invenire possis, ea demum 15 maxima pars eruditionis est—To know where you can find a thing is the chief part of learning.
Scire volunt omnes, mercedem solvere nemo—All would like to know, but few to pay the price. Juv.
Scire volunt secreta domus, atque inde timeri—They wish to know of the family secrets, and so to be feared. Juv.
Scit genius, natale comes qui temperet astrum—The genius, our companion, who rules our natal star, knows. Hor.
Scoglio immoto contro le onde sta—He stands like a rock unmoved against the waves. M.
Scorn no man's love, though of a mean degree; / 20 Love is a present for a mighty king,—/ Much less make any one thine enemy. As guns destroy, so may a little sling. George Herbert.
Scorn to trample upon a worm or to sneak to be an emperor. Saadi.
Scorn'd, to be scorn'd by one that I scorn, / Is that a matter to make me fret? / That a calamity hard to be borne? Tennyson.
Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, / Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, / Welcome to your gory bed, / Or to victory! / Now's the day and now's the hour; / See the front o' battle lour; / See approach proud Edward's power, / Chains and slavery. Burns.
Scotsmen reckon ay frae an ill hour. Pr.
Screw not the chord too sharply lest it snap. 25 Pr.
Screw your courage to the sticking-place, / And we'll not fail. Macb., i. 7.
Scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons—Good sense is both the first principle and parent-source of good writing. Hor.
Scribere scientes—Knowing, or skilled, in writing. M.
Scribimus indocti doctique—All of us, unlearned and learned, alike take to writing. Hor.
Scripture, like Nature, lays down no definitions. 30 Spinoza.
Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of heart, are frequently the lot of the most excellent persons. Thomas à Kempis.
Sculpture and painting have an effect to teach us manners and abolish hurry. Emerson.
Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it. Very often the true form, in the marble, would not be in the least like itself. Ruskin.
Sculpture, the tongue on the balance of expression. Quoted by Emerson.
S'échauffer au dépens du bon Dieu—To warm 35 one's self in the sun (lit. at the expense of the good god). M.
Se a ciascuno l'interno affanno / Si leggesse in fronte scritto, / Quanti mai che invidia fanno / Ci farebbero pietà!—If the secret sorrows of every one could be read on his forehead, how many who now excite envy would become objects of pity! It.
Se il giovane sapesse, se il vecchio potesse, e' non c' è cosa che non si facesse—If the young knew, and the old could, there is nothing which would not be done. It. Pr.
Se'l sol mi splende, non curo la luna—If the sun shines on me, I care not for the moon. It. Pr.
Se la moglie pecca, non è il marito innocente—If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent. It. Pr.
Se laisser prendre aux apparences—To let one's 40 self be imposed on by appearances. Fr. Pr.
Se moquer de la philosophie, c'est vraiment philosopher—To jest at the expense of philosophy is truly to philosophise. Pascal.
Se non è vero, è ben trovato—If it is not true, it is cleverly invented. It. Pr.
Se retirer dans un fromage de Hollande—To retire into a Dutch cheese, i.e., to be contented. La Fontaine.
Se tu segui tua stella—Follow thou thy own star. Dante.
Sea Islanders; but a real human heart, with 45 Divine love in it, beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes. Holmes.
Sea things that be / On the hot sand fainting long, / Revive with the kiss of the sea. Lewis Morris.
Seamen have a custom when they meet a whale to fling out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship. Swift.
Search not to find what lies too deeply hid; / Nor to know things whose knowledge is forbid. Denham.
Search others for their virtues, and thyself for thy vices. Fuller.
Searching of thy wound, I have by hard adventure found my own. As You Like It, ii. 4.
Second thoughts, they say, are best. Dryden.
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell a man at once and straightforward the purpose of any object, he fancies there's nothing in it. Goethe.
Secrecy is best taught by commencing with ourselves. Chamfort.
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. Jeremy 5 Taylor.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. Carlyle.
Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Quoted by Colton.
Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like the column that guided Israel in the desert, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, and a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies. Colton.
Secret et hardi—Secret and bold. M.
Secreta hæc murmura vulgi—Those secret whisperings 10 of the populace. Juv.
Secrete amicos admone, lauda palam—Advise your friends in private, praise them openly. Pub. Syr.
Secrets make a dungeon of the heart and a jailer of its owner. Amer. Pr.
Secrets travel fast in Paris. Napoleon.
Sects of men are apt to be shut up in sectarian ideas of their own, and to be less open to new general ideas than the main body of men. Matthew Arnold.
Secundis dubiisque rectus—Upright, whether in 15 prosperous or in critical circumstances. M.
Secundo amne defluit—He floats with the stream.
Secundum artem—According to the rules of art.
Secundum genera—According to classes.
Secundum usum—According to usage or use.
Security, / Is mortals' chiefest enemy. Macbeth, 20 iii. 5.
Security will produce danger. Johnson.
Securus judicat orbis terrarum—The world's judgment is unswayed by fear. St. Augustine.
Sed de me ut sileam—But to say nothing of myself. Ovid.
Sed nisi peccassem, quid tu concedere posses? / Materiam veniæ sors tibi nostra dedit—Had I not sinned, what had there been for thee to pardon? My fate has given thee the matter for mercy. Ovid.
Sed notat hunc omnis domus et vicinia tota, / 25 Introrsum turpem, speciosum pelle decora—But all his family and the entire neighbourhood regard him as inwardly base, and only showy outside. Hor.
Sed quum res hominum tanta caligine volvi / Adspicerem, lætosque diu florere nocentes, / Vexarique pios: rursus labefacta cadebat / Religio—When I beheld human affairs involved in such dense darkness, the guilty exulting in their prosperity, and pious men suffering wrong, what religion I had began to reel backward and fall. Claud.
Sed tu / Ingenio verbis concipe plura meis?—But do you of your own ingenuity take up more than my words? Ovid.
Sed vatem egregium cui non sit publica vena, / Qui nihil expositum soleat deducere, nec qui / Communi feriat carmen triviale moneta, / Hunc qualem nequeo monstrare, et sentio tantum, / Anxietate carens animus facit—A poet of superior merit, whose vein is of no vulgar kind, who never winds off anything trite, nor coins a trivial poem at the public mint, I cannot describe, but only recognise as a man whose soul is free from all anxiety. Juv.
See deep enough, and you see musically; the heart of Nature being everywhere music, if you can only reach it. Carlyle.
See how many things there are which a man 30 cannot do himself; and then it will appear that it was a sparing speech of the ancients to say, "that a friend is another himself;" for that a friend is far more than himself. Bacon.
See Naples, and then die. It. Pr.
See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all. Socrates.
See that no man put a stumbling-block, or an occasion to fall, in his brother's way. St. Paul.
See that you come not to woo honour, but to wed it. All's Well, ii. 1.
See the conquering hero comes! / Sound the 35 trumpet, beat the drums! Dr. Thomas Morell.
See this last and this hammer (said the poor cobbler); that last and this hammer are the two best friends I have in this world; nobody else will be my friend, because I want a friend. Goldsmith.
See thou explain the infinite through the finite, and the unintelligible only through the intelligible, and not inversely. Bodenstedt.
See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such. Ward Beecher.
See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, / That Heaven finds means to kill your joys with love. Rom. and Jul., v. 3.
See, what is good lies by thy side. Goethe. 40
Seein's believin', but feelin's the naked truth. Sc. Pr.
Seeing the root of the matter is found in me. Bible.
Seek, and ye shall find. Jesus.
Seek but provision of bread and wine, / ... Fools to flatter, and raiment fine, / ... And nothing of God shall e'er be thine. Dr. W. Smith.
Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge 45 the fatherless, plead for the widow. Bible.
Seek not thyself without thyself to find. Dryden.
Seek not to know what must not be reveal'd; / Joys only flow where fate is most conceal'd; / Too busy man would find his sorrows more, / If future fortunes he should know before; / For by that knowledge of his destiny / He would not live at all, but always die. Dryden.
Seek not to reform every one's dial by your own watch. Pr.
Seek one good, one end, so zealously, that nothing else may come into competition or partnership with it. Thomas à Kempis.
Seek the good of other men, but be not in bondage to their faces or fancies; for that is but facility or softness, which taketh an honest mind prisoner. Bacon.
Seek till you find, and you'll not lose your labour. Pr.
Seek to be good, but aim not to be great; / A woman's noblest station is retreat. Lyttelton.
Seek to make thy course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect. Bacon.
Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call 5 ye upon him while he is near. Bible.
Seek your salve where you got your sore. Pr.
Seekest thou great things? seek them not. Jeremiah.
Seeking for a God there, and not here; everywhere outwardly in physical nature, and not inwardly in our own soul, where He alone is to be found by us, begins to get wearisome. Carlyle.
Seeking nothing, he gains all; foregoing self, the universe grows "I." Sir Edwin Arnold.
Seeking the bubble reputation, / Even in the 10 cannon's mouth. As You Like It, ii. 7.
Seele des Menschen, / Wie gleichst du dem Wasser! / Schicksal des Menschen, / Wie gleichst du dem Wind!—Soul of man, how like art thou to water! Lot of man, how like art thou to wind! Goethe.
Seelenstärke ohne Seelengrösse bildet die bösartigen Charakters—Strength of soul without greatness of soul goes but to form evil-disposed characters. Weber.
Seem I not as tender to him / As any mother? / Ay, but such a one / As all day long hath rated at her child, / And vext his day, but blesses him asleep. Tennyson.
Seeming triumph o'er God's saints / Lasts but a little hour. Winkworth.
Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not 15 "seems." / 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, / Nor customary suits of solemn black. / Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, / No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, / Nor the dejected 'haviour of the visage, / Together with all forms, modes, shows of grief, / That can denote truly; these, indeed, seem, / For they are actions that a man can play: / But I have that within, which passeth show; / These but the trappings and the suits of woe. Ham., i. 2.
Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men. Bible.
Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him. Bible.
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him. Bible.
Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is? how giddily he turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty. Much Ado, iii. 3.
Segnius homines bona quam mala sentiunt—Men 20 are not so readily sensible of benefits as of injuries.
Segnius irritant animos demissa per aurem, / Quam quæ sunt oculis subjecta fidelibus—What we learn merely through the ear makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. Hor.
Sehr leicht zerstreut der Zufall was er sammelt; / Ein edler Mensch zieht edle Menschen an / Und weiss sie festzuhalten—What chance gathers she very easily scatters. A noble man attracts noble men, and knows how to hold them fast. Goethe.
Sei gefühllos! / Ein leichtbewegtes Herz / Ist ein elend Gut / Auf der wankenden Erde—Do not give way to feeling (lit. be unfeeling). A quickly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth. Goethe.
Sei gut, und lass von dir die Menschen Böses sagen; / Wer eigne Schuld nicht trägt, kann leichter fremde tragen—Be good, and let men say ill of thee; he who has no sin to bear of his own can more easily bear that of others. Rückert.
Sei im Besitze, und du wohnst im Recht, / 25 Und heilig wird's die Menge dir bewahren—Be in possession and thou hast the right, and the many will preserve it for thee as sacred. Schiller.
Sei was du sein willst—Be what you would be. Ger. Pr.
Sein Glaube ist so gross, dass, wenn er fällt, / Glaubt er: gefallen sei die ganze Welt—His faith is so great that if it falls, he believes the whole world has fallen. Bodenstedt.