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Cornelius Nepos
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“Tantum abest, ut ego magistram esse putem vitae philosophiam beataeque vitae perfectricem, ut nullis magis existimem opus esse magistros vivendi quam plerisque qui in ea disputanda versantur. Video enim magnam partem eorum qui in schola de pudore et continentia praecipiant argutissime, eosdem in omnium ibidinum cupiditatibus vivere.”
Cornelius Nepos (100–25 BC) said by 25 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Putamus malo fuisse nimiam opinionem ingenii atque virtutis.”
Cornelius Nepos (100–25 BC) said by 25 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Matrem timidi flere non solere.”
Cornelius Nepos (100–25 BC) said by 25 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Miseranda vita, qui se metui, quam amari malunt.”
Cornelius Nepos (100–25 BC) said by 25 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Est enim hoc commune vitium in magnis liberisque civitatibus, ut invidia gloriae comes sit; et libenter de iis detrahunt quos eminere videant altius, neque animo aequo pauperes alienam opulentium intuuntur fortunam.”
Cornelius Nepos (100–25 BC) said by 25 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Magnos homines virtute metimur, non fortuna.”
Cornelius Nepos (100–25 BC) said by 25 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sed multorum obtrectatio devicit unius virtutem.”
Cornelius Nepos (100–25 BC) said by 25 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Paupertatem adeo facile perpessus est, ut de re publica nihil praeter gloriam ceperit.”
Cornelius Nepos (100–25 BC) said by 25 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sui cuique mores fingunt fortunam hominibus.”
Cornelius Nepos (100–25 BC) said by 25 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Plus salis, quam sumptus.”
Cornelius Nepos (100–25 BC) said by 25 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Elegans, non magnificus, splendidus, non sumptuosus; omnisque diligentia munditiam, non adfluentiam adfectabat.”
Cornelius Nepos (100–25 BC) said by 25 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“John Selby Watson, Lives of the Eminent Commanders (1886)”
Cornelius Nepos (100–25 BC) said by 25 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Norbert Gutterman, A Book of Latin Quotations (1966), pp. 84–7”
Cornelius Nepos (100–25 BC) said by 25 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source