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Quotation with: "quae"
"What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
[Lat., Quae regio in terris nostri non plena laboris.]"
Author: Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)
About: Affliction
"Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves
achieved, we can scarcely call our own.
[Lat., Nam genus et proavos et quae non fecimus ipsi
Vix ea nostra voco.]"
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
About: Ancestry
"All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie,
and are connect as it were by some relationship.
[Lat., Etenim omnes artes, quae ad humanitatem pertinent, habent
quoddam commune vinculum, et quasi cognatione quadam inter se
continentur.]"
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
About: Art
"The rise of every man he loved to trace,
Up to the very pod O!
And, in baboons, our parent race
Was found by old Monboddo.
Their A, B, C, he made them speak,
And learn their qui, quae, quod, O!
Till Hebrew, Latin, Welsh, and Greek
They knew as well's Monboddo!"
Author: Unattributed Author
About: Evolution
"Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from
their own faults.]
[Lat., Ea molestissime ferre homines debent quae ipsorum culpa
ferenda sunt.]"
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
About: Faults
"A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted
is a more agreeable favor.
[Lat., Gratia, quae tarda est, ingrata est: gratia namque
Cum fieri properat, gratia grata magis.]"
Author: Decimus Magnus Ausonius
About: Favors
"He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are
swimming.
[Lat., Qui sustinet hamos,
Novit, quae multo pisce natentur aquae.]"
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
About: Fishermen
"Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken
than mended.
[Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam corrigas quae in pravum
induerunt.]"
Author: Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian)
About: Habit
"I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one
do? According to men's habits and dispositions, so one must
yield to them.
[Lat., Inepta haec esse, nos quae facimus sentio;
Verum quid facias? ut homo est, ita morem geras.]"
Author: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
About: Habit
"There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate
misfortunes. What madness it is in your expecting evil before it
arrives!
[Lat., Nil est nec miserius nec stultius quam praetimere. Quae
ista dementia est, malum suum antecedere!]"
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
About: Misfortune
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