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Claudian
11 quotes
“Minuit praesentia famam.”
Claudian (370–404) said by 404 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wrongly attributed to Virgil in an "undoubtedly spurious Italian epistle sometimes printed in [Dante's] works". (Edward Moore, Studies in Dante [1896], footnote on p. 240.)
Also quoted by: Virgil (misattributed)
“Dis proximus ille est, quem ratio non ira movet.”
Claudian (370–404) said by 404 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Peragit tranquilla potestas quod violenta nequit; mandataque fortius urget imperiosa quies.”
Claudian (370–404) said by 404 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Vile latens virtus.”
Claudian (370–404) said by 404 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Qui terret plus ipse timet.”
Claudian (370–404) said by 404 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In commune iubes si quid censesque tenendum, primus iussa subi: tunc observantior aequi fit populus nec ferre negat, cum viderit ipsum auctorem parere sibi. componitur orbis regis ad exemplum, nec sic inflectere sensus humanos edicta valent quam vita regentis. Mobile mutatur semper cum principe vulgus.”
Claudian (370–404) said by 404 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Iam non ad culmina rerum iniustos crevisse queror; tolluntur in altum ut lapsu graviore ruant.”
Claudian (370–404) said by 404 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Natura beatis, omnibus esse dedit, si quis cognoverit uti.”
Claudian (370–404) said by 404 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Omnia mors aequat.”
Claudian (370–404) said by 404 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Paupertas me saeva domat dirusque Cupido: sed toleranda fames, non tolerandus amor.”
Claudian (370–404) said by 404 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nexuque pio longinqua revinxit.”
Claudian (370–404) said by 404 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Compare: Sir Edwin Arnold's version, in Potiphar's Wife, &c. (1895) p. 94