Chapter M (2)

=Mantua, væ! miseræ nimium vicina Cremonæ=--Mantua, 5 alas! too near the unhappy Cremona. _Quoted by Dean Swift on seeing a lady sweep a violin off a table with her dress._

=Manu forti=--With a strong hand. _M._

=Manu scriptum=--Written by the hand.

=Manufacture is intelligible but trivial; creation is great and cannot be understood.= _Carlyle._

=Manum de tabula!=--Hand off the picture! _i.e._, leave off touching up.

=Manum non verterim, digitum non porrexerim=--I 10 would not turn my hand or stretch out my finger. _Cic._

=Manus e nubibus=--Hand from the clouds.

=Manus hæc inimica tyrannis=--This hand is hostile to tyrants. _M._

=Manus manum lavat=--One hand washes the other.

=Many a cow stands in the meadow and looks wistfully at the common.= _Pr._

=Many a dangerous temptation comes to us= 15 =in fine gay colours that are but skin-deep.= _Henry._

=Many a discord betwixt man and man the returning seasons soften by degrees into sweetest harmony; but that which bridges over the greatest gap is Love, whose charm unites the earth with heaven above.= _Goethe._

=Many a father might say, ... "I put in gold into the furnace, and there came out this calf."= _Spurgeon._

=Many a fine dish has nothing on it.= _Pr._

=Many a genius has been of slow growth. Oaks, that flourish for a thousand years, do not spring up into beauty like a reed.= _G. H. Lewis._

=Many a good cow hath a bad calf.= _Pr._ 20

=Many a good drop of broth may come out of an old pot.= _Pr._

=Many a good father hath but a bad son.= _Pr._

=Many a hand moulded by Nature to give elegance of form to a kid glove is "stinted of its fair proportion" by grubbing toil.= _S. Lover._

=Many a man is mad in certain instances, and goes through life without having perceived it.= _Johnson._

=Many a man settleth more by an inch of his= 25 =will than by an ell of his thrift.= _Pr._

=Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.= _Hare._

=Many a meandering discourse one hears, in which the preacher aims at nothing, and--hits it.= _Whately._

=Many a one is good because he can do no mischief.= _Pr._

=Many a one labours for the day he will never live to see.= _Dan. Pr._

=Many a one threatens while he quakes for= 30 =fear.= _It. and Ger. Pr._

=Many a seeming farce played on the great stage of the world is in reality a tragedy, if we could but see into the heart of it.= _Anon._

=Many a true word is spoken in jest.= _Pr._

=Many a young damsel has been ruined by a fine copy of verses, which she would have laughed at if she had known it had been stolen from Mr. Waller.= _Lady Montagu._

=Many acquaintances, but few friends.= _Johnson._

=Many acres will not make a wiseacre.= _Pr._ 35

=Many an honest man stands in need of help that has not the face to beg it.= _Pr._

=Many an irksome noise, when a long way off, is heard as music.= _Thoreau._

=Many and many a heart of woman, who has not uttered a word during her whole life, has felt more truly and intensely than the poet that has sung most sweetly.= _Renan._

=Many are called but few chosen.= _Jesus._

=Many are idly busy. Domitian was busy, but= 40 =then it was catching flies.= _Jeremy Taylor._

=Many are wise in jest but fools in earnest.= _Pr._

=Many arrive at second masters / Upon their first lord's neck.= _Tim. of Athens_, iv. 3.

=Many beat the sack, and mean the miller.= _Pr._

=Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.= _Colton._

=Many by-walks, many balks; many balks,= 45 =much stumbling.= _Latimer._

=Many can argue, not many converse.= _A. B. Alcott._

=Many can bear adversity, but few contempt.= _Pr._

=Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 2.

=Many can make bricks, but cannot build.= _Pr._

=Many causes that can plead well for themselves= 50 =in the courts of Westminster, have yet in the general court of the universe and free soul of man no word to utter.= _Carlyle._

=Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.= _Bovee._

=Many commit sin and blame Satan.= _Pr._

=Many cooks spoil the broth.= _Pr._

=Many cut broad thongs out of other people's leather.= _Pr._

=Many deceive themselves, imagining to find= 55 =happiness in change.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.= _Sir P. Sidney._

=Many estates are spent in the getting, / Since women, for tea, forsook spinning and knitting, / And men, for their punch, forsook hewing and splitting.= _Pr._

=Many find fault without any end, / And yet do nothing at all to mend.= _Pr._

=Many flowers open to the sun, but only one follows him constantly. Heart, be thou the sunflower, not only open to receive God's blessing, but constant in looking to Him.= _Jean Paul._

=Many get into a dispute well that cannot get out well.= _Pr._

=Many go in quest of wool, and come back shorn.= _Ger. Pr._

=Many go out for clothes, and come home stript.= _Pr._

=Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.= _Philip Henry._

=Many hands make light work.= _Pr._ 5

=Many have been harmed by speech; through thinking, few or none.= _Lord Vaux._

=Many have been ruined by buying good penny-worths.= _Pr._

=Many have been ruined by their fortunes; many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it, the great have become little, and the little great.= _Zimmermann._

=Many have come to port after a great storm.= _Pr._

=Many have genius, / But, wanting art, are for= 10 =ever dumb.= _Longfellow._

=Many have the talents which would make them poets if they had the genius; a few have the genius yet want the talents.= _J. Sterling._

=Many have too much, but none enough.= _Dan. Pr._

=Many hope that the tree may be felled who expect to gather chips by the fall.= _Fuller._

=Many indifferent things which men originally did from a motive of some sort, they continue to do from habit.= _J. S. Mill._

=Many kinds of books are permissible, but= 15 =there is one kind that is not permissible, the kind that has nothing in it=--_le genre ennuyeux_ (the kind that bore you). _Carlyle._

=Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.= _Pr._

=Many lick before they bite.= _Pr._

=Many littles make a mickle.= _Pr._

=Many are fain to praise what is right and do what is wrong.= _Dan. Pr._

=Many men and women spend their lives in= 20 =unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.= _J. G. Holland._

=Many men attain a knowledge of what is perfect, and of their own insufficiency, and go on doing things by halves to the end of their days.= _Goethe._

=Many men fancy that what they experience they also understand.= _Goethe._

=Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.= _Alex. Pope._

=Many men, in all ages, have triumphed over death, and led it captive; converting its physical victory into a moral victory for themselves, into a zeal and immortal consecration for all that their past life had achieved.= _Carlyle._

=Many men involve themselves deeper in temptations= 25 =by being too solicitous to decline them.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Many men know how to flatter; few men know how to praise.= _Wendell Phillips._

=Many men love in themselves what they hate in others.= _Benzel Sternan._

=Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.= _Hare._

=Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet, and go whither He would have us.= _Ward Beecher._

=Many of sounding name from Jamblicus down= 30 =to Aubrey have wasted their time in devising imaginary remedies for non-existing diseases.= _Scott._

=Many of the supposed increasers of knowledge have only given a new name, and often a worse, to what was well known before.= _Hare._

=Many old camels carry the skins of the young ones to the market.= _Pr._

=Many people are sincere without being simple. They do not wish to be taken for other than they are; and they always fear lest they should be taken for what they are not.= _Fénelon._

=Many people place virtue more in regretting than in amendment.= _Lichtenberg._

=Many people take no care of their money till= 35 =they have come nearly to an end of it, and others do just the same with their time.= _Goethe._

=Many people think of knowledge as of money. They would like knowledge, but cannot face the perseverance and self-denial that go to the acquisition of it.= _John Morley._

=Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.= _Longfellow._

=Many rendings need many mendings.= _Pr._

=Many sacrifices have been made just to enjoy the feeling of vengeance, without any intention of causing an amount of injury equivalent to what one has suffered.= _Schopenhauer._

=Many see more with one eye than others with= 40 =two.= _Ger. Pr._

=Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.= _Bible._

=Many so spend their whole term, and in ever-new expectation, ever-new disappointment, shift from enterprise to enterprise, and from side to side, till at length, as exasperated striplings of threescore and ten, they shift into their last enterprise, that of getting buried.= _Carlyle._

=Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches and preferment; but they mean the riches and preferment possessed by other men.= _Colton._

=Many strokes, though with a little axe, / Hew down and fell the hardest timber'd oak.= 3 _Hen. VI._, ii. 1.

=Many talk like philosophers and live like fools.= 45 _Pr._

=Many that are first shall be last, and the last shall be first.= _Jesus._

=Many there be that buy nothing with their money but repentance.= _Pr._

=Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more to be spoken.= _Novalis._

=Many things difficult to design prove easy of performance.= _Johnson._

=Many things there are / That we may hope to= 50 =win with violence; / While others only can become our own / Through moderation and wise self-restraint. / Such is virtue; such is love.= _Goethe._

=Many times death passeth with less pain than the torture of a limb; for the most vital parts are not the quickest of sense.= _Bacon._

=Many ventures make a full freight.= _Pr._

=Many walk into the battle and are carried out of it.= _Fielding._

=Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.= _Bible._

=Many words hurt more than swords.= _Pr._ 5

=Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.= _Pr._

=Many would have been worse if their estates had been better.= _Pr._

=Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are really ill-mannered and coarse.= _La Roche._

=Mar not what, marred, cannot be mended.= _Pr._

=March dust is a thing / Worth ransom of a= 10 =king.= _Old saw._

=March winds and April showers.= _Pr._

=Marchand qui perd ne peut rire=--The dealer who loses is not the one to laugh. _Dandin._

=Marchandise de rencontre=--Second-hand goods. _Fr._

=Marchandise qui plait est à demie vendue=--Goods which please are half sold. _Fr. Pr._

=Mare apertum=--A sea open to commerce. 15

=Mare clausum=--A sea closed to commerce.

=Mare cœlo miscere=--To confound sea and sky.

=Mare ditat, rosa decorat=--The sea enriches, the rose adorns. _M._

=Mare quidem commune certo est omnibus=--The sea surely is common to all. _Plaut._

=Margarita e stercore=--A pearl from a dunghill. 20 _Pr._

=Maria montesque polliceri cœpit=--He began to promise seas and mountains. _Sall._

=Mariage de convenance=--A marriage from considerations of advantage. _Fr._

=Marie ton fils quand tu voudras, mais ta fille quand tu pourras=--Marry your son when you like, your daughter when you can. _Fr. Pr._

=Mark if his birth makes any difference, if to his words it adds one grain of sense.= _Dryden._

=Mark what another says; for many are /= 25 =Full of themselves, and answer their own notion. / Take all into thee; then with equal care / Balance each chain of reason, like a potion.= _George Herbert._

=Marmoreo Licinus tumulo jacet, at Cato parvo, / Pompeius nullo. Quis putet esse deos? / Saxa premunt Licinum, levat altum Fama Catonem, / Pompeium tituli. Credimus esse deos=--Licinus lies in a marble tomb, Cato in a humble one, Pompey in none. Who can believe that the gods exist? _Ans._--Heavy lies the stone on Licinus; Fame raises Cato on high; his glories, Pompey. We believe that the gods do exist.

=Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.= _Bovee._

=Marriage comes unawares, like a soot-drop.= _Irish Pr._

=Marriage, indeed, may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.= _Congreve._

=Marriage is a desperate thing. The frogs in= 30 =Æsop were extremely wise; they had a great mind to some water, but they would not leap into the well, because they could not get out again.= _Selden._

=Marriage is the best state for man in general; and every man is a worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the married state.= _Johnson._

=Marriage is the bloom or blight of all men's happiness.= _Byron._

=Marriage is the feast where the grace is better than the dinner.= _Colton._

=Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.= _Jeremy Taylor._

=Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy= 35 =or of conquest.= _George Eliot._

=Marriage with peace is the world's paradise; with strife, this life's purgatory.= _Pr._

=Marriages are best of dissimilar material.= _Theo. Parker._

=Marriages are made in heaven.= _Pr._

=Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.= _Sydney Smith._

=Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.= 40 _Congreve._

=Marry above your match, and you get a master.= _Pr._

=Marry and grow tame.= _Sp. Pr._

=Marry for love and work for siller.= _Sc. Pr._

=Marry for love, but only love that which is lovely.= _Pr._

=Marrying is easy, but housekeeping is hard.= 45 _Pr._

=Mars gravior sub pace latet=--A more serious war lies concealed under a show of peace. _Claud._

=Martem accendere cantu=--To waken up the war-spirit by his note. _Virg._

=Mas vale buen amigo que pariente primo=--A good friend is better than a near relation. _Sp. Pr._

=Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled.= _Emerson._

=Mässigkeit und klarer Himmel sind Apollo= 50 =und die Musen=--Moderation and a clear sky are Apollo and the Muses. _Goethe._

=Masters are mostly the greatest servants in the house.= _Pr._

=Masters should be sometimes blind and sometimes deaf.= _Pr._

=Masters two / Will not do.= _Pr._

=Mastery passes often for egotism.= _Goethe._

=Match-makers often burn their fingers.= _Pr._ 55

=Mater artium necessitas=--Necessity is the mother of invention (_lit._ the arts).

=Mater familias=--The mother of a family.

=Materia medica=--Substances used in medicine; therapeutics.

=Materia prima=--The primary substance or substrate.

=Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything;= 60 =makes everything vulgar, and every truth false.= _Amiel._

=Materiem, qua sis ingeniosus, habes=--You have a subject on which to show your ingenuity. _Ovid._

=Materiem superabat opus=--The workmanship surpassed the material. _Ovid._

=Mathematic form is eternal in the reasoning memory; living form is eternal existence.= _Wm. Blake._

=Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.= _Goethe._

[Greek: mathousin audô, kou mathousi lêthomai]--I speak to experts; those who are not I ignore. _Æsch._

=Matinée=--A morning recital or performance. 5 _Fr._

=Matrimony, the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.= _Heine._

=Matter exists only spiritually, and to represent some idea and body it forth.= _Carlyle._

=Matter, were it never so despicable, is spirit, the manifestation of spirit: were it never so honourable, can it be more?= _Carlyle._

=Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esse senex=--You must become an old man soon if you would be an old man long. _Pr. in Cic._

=Maulesel treiben viel Parlaren / Dass ihre= 10 =Voreltern Pferde waren=--Mules boast much that their ancestors were horses. _Ger. Pr._

=Mauvaise honte=--False shame. _Fr._

=Mauvaise langue=--A slanderous tongue. _Fr._

=Mauvais pas=--A scrape; a difficulty. _Fr._

=Mauvais sujet=--A bad or worthless fellow. _Fr._

=Mauvais ton=--Bad manners. _Fr._ 15

=Maxim or aphorism, let us remember that this wisdom of life is the true salt of literature; that those books are most nourishing which are most richly stored with it, and that it is one of the main objects ... which men ought to seek in the reading of books.= _John Morley._

=Maxima debetur pueris reverentia=--The greatest respect is due to youth (_lit._ our boys). _Juv._

=Maxima illecebra est peccandi impunitatis spes=--The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity. _Cic._

=Maxima quæque domus servis est plena superbis=--Every great house is full of haughty servants. _Juv._

=Maximas virtutes jacere omnes necesse est,= 20 =voluptate dominante=--Where pleasure prevails, all the greatest virtues must lie dormant. _Cic._

=Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct.= _Joubert._

=Maximum remedium iræ dilatio est!=--Deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger. _Seneca._

=Maximus in minimis=--Very great in very little things.

=Maximus novator tempus=--Time is the greatest innovator. _Pr._

="May-be" is very well, but "must" is the= 25 =master.= _Pr._

=May cauld ne'er catch you but a hap, / Nor hunger but in plenty's lap.= _Burns._

=May never wicked fortune touzle= (tease) =him! / May never wicked man bamboozle him! / Until a pow as auld's Methusalem / He canty= (cheerily) =claw. / Then to the blessed New Jerusalem / Fleet wing awa'!= _Burns._

=May the idea of pureness, extending itself even to the very morsel which I take into my mouth, become ever dearer and more luminous within me.= _Goethe._

=Me judice=--In my opinion or judgment.

=Me justum esse gratis oportet=--It is my duty 30 to show justice without recompense. _Sen._

[Greek: Mê kaka kerdainein; kaka kerdea is' atêsin]--Do not make evil gains; evil gains are equal to losses. _Hesiod._

[Greek: Mê kinei Kamarinan]--Don't stir Lake Camarina (otherwise pestilence).

=Me miseram, quod amor non est medicabilis herbis!=--Oh, unhappy me, that there should be no herbs to cure love!

=Me nemo ministro / Fur erit=--No one shall play the thief with my help. _Juv._

=Me non solum piget stultitiæ meæ, sed etiam= 35 =pudet=--I am not only annoyed at my folly, I am ashamed of it. _L._

=Me, poor man, my library was dukedom large enough.= _Tempest_, i. 1.

=Me (they will kill) when they are mad, but you when they recover their reason.= _Phocion to Demosthenes, who had threatened him with death at the hands of his fellow-citizens._

=Mea virtute me involvo=--I wrap myself in my virtue. _Hor._

=Meal is finer than grain; women are finer than men.= _Gael. Pr._

=Meals and matins minish never.= _Pr._ 40

=Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunderstorm, always turn sour.= _Randolph._

=Measure men around the heart.= _Pr._

=Measure not by a scale of perfection the meagre product of reality.= _Schiller._

=Measure three times before you cut once.= _Pr._

=Measure your cloth ten times; you can cut= 45 =it but once.= _Russ. Pr._

=Measures, not men, have always been my mark.= _Goldsmith._

=Meat and matins hinder no man's journey.= _Pr._

=Meat is devoured by the birds in the air, by the beasts in the fields, and by the fishes in the waters; so, in every situation, there is plenty.= _Hitopadesa._

=Meat is more than its carving, and truth is more than oratory.= _Pr._

=Mecum facile redeo in gratiam=--I easily recover 50 my good-will myself. _Phædr._

[Greek: mêden agan]--No excess. _Anon._

[Greek: Mêdena kakêgoreito mêdeis]--Let nobody speak mischief of anybody. _Plato._

=Medici, causa morbi inventa, curationem inventam putant=--Physicians, when they have found out the cause of a disease, consider they have found out the cure. _Cic._

=Medicines are not meant to feed on.= _Pr._

=Medio de fonte leporam / Surgit amari aliquid= 55 =quod in ipsis floribus angat=--From the midst of the very fountain of delight something bitter arises to vex us even amid the flowers themselves. _Lucret._

=Medio tutissimus ibis=--You will go most safely in the middle. _Ovid._

=Médiocre et rampant, et l'on arrive à tout=--Be second-rate and fawning, and you may attain to anything. _Beaumarchais._

=Mediocria firma=--The middle station is the most secure. _M._

=Mediocribus esse poetis / Non Di, non homines, non concessere columnæ=--Mediocrity in poets is condemned by gods and men, and booksellers too. _Hor._

=Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.= _I. Disraeli._

=Mediocrity is not allowed to poets either by gods or men.= _Hor._

=Mediocrity of enjoyment only is allowed to= 5 =man.= _Blair._

=Meditation has taught all men in all ages that this world is after all but a show--a phenomenon or appearance, no real thing.= _Carlyle._

=Meditation is a busy search in the storehouse of phantasy for some ideas of matters to be cast in the moulds of resolution into some forms of words and action; in which search I find this is the best conclusion, that to meditate on the best is the best of meditations, and a resolution to make a good end is a good end of my resolutions.= _A. Warwick._

=Meditation is the life of the soul; action, the soul of meditation; honour, the reward of action.= _Quarles._

=Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby in her long removes she discerneth God as if he were nearer at hand.= _Feltham._

=Medium tenuere beati!=--Happy they who 10 steadily pursue a middle course.

=Meekness is not mere white-facedness, a mere contemplative virtue; it is maintaining peace and patience in the midst of pelting provocations.= _Ward Beecher._

=Meekness is not weakness.= _Pr._

=Meekness is the bridle of anger.= _Saying._

=Meekness is the cherish'd bent / Of all the truly great and all the innocent.= _Wordsworth._

[Greek: Mega biblion mega kakon]--A great book is a 15 great evil. _Callimachus._

=Meglio amici da lontano che nemici d'appresso=--Better be friends at a distance than enemies near each other. _It. Pr._

=Meglio solo che mal accompagnato=--Better alone than in bad company. _It. Pr._

=Meglio tardi che mai=--Better late than never. _It. Pr._

=Mehr Leute beten die aufgehende, als die untergehende Sonne an=--More people pay homage to the rising than to the setting sun. _Jean Paul._

=Mehr Licht!=--More light! _Goethe's last words._ (?) 20

=Meikle crack fills nae sack.= _Sc. Pr._

=Mein einz'ger Wunsch ist meiner Wünsche Ruhe=--My only wish is that my wishes should be at rest. _Rückert._

=Mein erst Gesetz ist, in der Welt / Die Frager zu vermeiden=--A first rule of mine is to avoid the inquiring class of people. _Goethe._

=Mein Herz gleicht ganz dem Meere, / Hat Sturm und Ebb' und Flut, / Und manche schöne Perle / In seiner Tiefe ruht=--My heart altogether resembles the sea; it has its storms, its ebbs and floods, and far down in its quiet depths rests many a shining pearl. _Heine._

=Mein Leben ist für Gold nicht feil=--My life is 25 not to be bartered away for gold. _Bürger._

=Mein Leipzig lob' ich mir! / Es ist klein Paris, und bildet seine Leute=--Leipzig for me! It is quite a little Paris, and its people acquire an easy finished air (_lit._ it fashions its people). _Goethe._

=Mein Pathos brächte dich gewiss zum Lachen, / Hätt'st du dir nicht das Lachen abgewöhnt=--My pathos would surely provoke you to mirth, if you had not long ago forborne to smile. _Mephisto to the Lord, in Goethe's "Faust."_

=Mein Ruh' ist hin, / Mein Herz ist schwer; / Ich finde sie nimmer / Und nimmermehr=--My peace is gone; my heart is heavy; I shall find it (peace) never and nevermore. _Gretchen in Goethe's "Faust."_

=Mein Sohn, nichts in der Welt ist unbedeutend. / Das erste aber und Hauptsächlichste / Bei allem ird'schen Ding ist Ort und Stunde=--My son, nothing in this world is without significance, but the first and most essential matter in every earthly thing is the place where and the hour when. _Schiller._

=Mein Wille ist rein, das weitere gebe ich der= 30 =Vorsehung anheim!=--My intention is pure; the rest I leave in the hands of Providence. _Frederick William II. of Prussia._

=Meine Herren, did you never hear of the man that vilified the sun because it would not light his cigar?= _Carlyle's challenge to certain canting pietistic depreciators of Goethe._

=Meine Zeit in Unruhe, meine Hoffnung in Gott!=--The time I live in is a time of turmoil; my hope is in God. _Frederick William III. of Prussia._

=Meiner Idee nach ist Energie die erste und einzige Tugend des Menschen=--In my regard energy is the first and only virtue of man. _W. v. Humboldt._

=Meines Lebens Wunsch ist stiller Friede=--The wish of my life is a tranquil peace. _Seume._

=Mel in ore, verba lactis, / Fel in corde, fraus in= 35 =factis=--Honey in his mouth, words of milk; gall in his heart, deceit in his deeds.

=Melancholy advanceth men's conceits more than any humour whatever.= _Burton._

=Melancholy attends on the best joys of a merely ideal life.= _Margaret Fuller._

=Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.= _Victor Hugo._

=Melancholy spreads itself betwixt heaven and earth, like envy between man and man, and is an everlasting mist.= _Byron._

[Greek: Meletê to pan]--Practice is everything. _Periander._ 40

=Melior est conditio possidentis=--The condition of the party in possession, or the defendant, is the better of the two. _L._

=Melior tutiorque est certa pax, quam sperata victoria=--A certain peace is better and safer than an expected victory. _L._

=Meliora sunt ea quæ natura, quam quæ arte perfecta sunt=--The things which are perfect by nature are better than those which are perfect by art. _Cic._

=Meliores priores=--The better first. _L._

=Melioribus auspiciis=--Under more favourable 45 auspices.

=Melius est pati semel, quam cavere semper=--It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension. _Jul. Cæs._

=Melius est peccata cavere quam mortem fugere=--It is better to avoid sin than to fly from death. _Thomas à Kempis._

=Melius, pejus, prosit, obsit, nil vident nisi quod libuerit=--Better or worse, for good or for harm, they see nothing but what they please. _Ter._

=Mellitum venenum, blanda oratio=--A flattering speech is honied poison. _Pr._

=Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum; / Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum=--The wounded limb shrinks from even a gentle touch, and the unsubstantial shadow strikes the timid with alarm. _Ovid._

=Même quand l'oiseau marche, on sent qu'il a des ailes=--Even when a bird walks, we may see that it has wings. _Fr. Pr._

=Meminerunt omnia amantes=--Lovers remember 5 everything. _Ovid._

=Memini etiam quæ nolo: oblivisci non possum quæ volo=--I remember what I would not, and I cannot forget what I would. _Themistocles._

=Memor et fidelis=--Mindful and faithful. _M._

=Memorabilia=--Things to be remembered or recorded.

=Memorem immemorem facit, qui monet quod memor meminit=--He who reminds a man with a good memory of what he remembers, makes him forget. _Plaut._

=Memoria in æterna=--In eternal remembrance. 10 _M._

=Memoria minuitur, nisi eam exerceas=--Your power of recollection will wax feeble unless you exercise it. _Cic._

=Memoriter=--By rote.

=Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.= _Rivarol._

=Memory, and thou, Forgetfulness, not yet / Your powers in happy harmony I find; / One oft recalls what I would fain forget, / And one blots out what I would bear in mind.= _Macedonius._

=Memory is a Muse in herself; or rather the= 15 =mother of the Muses.= (?)

=Memory is like a purse: if it be over-full, that it cannot be shut, all will drop out of it.= _Fuller._

=Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times more true.= _G. D. Prentice._

=Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and the council-chamber of thought.= _Basile._

=Memory is the conservative faculty.= _Sir Wm. Hamilton._

=Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous= 20 =ally of invention.= _Colton._

=Memory is the golden thread linking all the mental gifts and excellencies together.= _E. P. Hood._

=Memory= (_Erinnerung_) =is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven.= _Jean Paul._

=Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.= _Johnson._

=Memory is the scribe of the soul.= _Arist._

=Memory, of all things good remind us still: /= 25 =Forgetfulness, obliterate all that's ill.= _Macedonius._

=Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.= _Lactantius._

=Memory, the warder of the brain.= _Macb._, i. 7.

=Men and communities in this world are often in the position of Arctic explorers, who are making great speed in a given direction, while the ice-floe beneath them is making greater speed in the opposite.= _John Burroughs._

=Men and cucumbers are worth nothing as soon as they are ripe.= _Jean Paul._

=Men and pyramids are not made to stand on= 30 =their head.= _G. K. Pfeffel._

=Men and women who "grill" over the petty annoyances incident to existence, and inseparable from it, go to ruin like a careworn cat.= _C. J. Dunphie._

=Men apt to promise are apt to forget.= _Pr._

=Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.= _As You Like It_, iv. 1.

=Men are as the time is.= _Lear_, v. 3.

=Men are at best only stewards, and they are= 35 =very select men indeed who are elected of heaven to this honour. The most want the necessary discrimination, and are in their place only when, like Athenian maidens, "bearers of the basket."= _Ed._

=Men are but children of a larger growth; / Our appetites are apt to change as theirs, / And full as craving too, and full as vain.= _Dryden._

=Men are content to be brushed like flies from the path of a great person, so that justice shall be done by him to that common nature which it is the dearest desire of all to see enlarged and glorified.= _Emerson._

=Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly.= _Swift._

=Men are enlisted for the labour that kills; let them be enlisted for the labour that feeds; and let the captains of the latter be held as much gentlemen as the captains of the former.= _Ruskin._

=Men are eternally divided into the two classes= 40 =of poet (or believer, maker, and praiser), and dunce (or unbeliever, unmaker, and dispraiser).= _Ruskin._

=Men are everything, measures are comparatively nothing.= _Canning._

=Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.= _W. Penn._

=Men are happy in proportion as their range of vision, their sphere of action, and their points of contact with the world are restricted and circumscribed.= _Schopenhauer._

=Men are impatient and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout his operations, accomplishing his natural ends by slow successive steps.= _Bishop Butler._

=Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and= 45 =so cruel, that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.= _Voltaire._

=Men are led by trifles.= _Napoleon._

=Men are less afraid of injuring one who awakens love than one who inspires fear.= _Machiavelli._

=Men are like flies--for men are insects too, / Little in mind, howe'er our bodies run!--/ We're all in sects: in sects that hate each other, / And deem it love of God to hate one's brother.= _Edward Irwin._

=Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.= _Whately._

=Men are made by nature unequal: it is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.= _Froude._

=Men are men; the best sometimes forget.= _Othello_, ii. 3.

=Men are more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.= _Pasquier Quesnel._

=Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.= _Pliny._

=Men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun= 5 ='em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail.= _George Eliot._

=Men are much in disposition and feelings according to the nature of the country which they inhabit.= _Polybius._

=Men are much more prone (the greater is the pity) both to speak and believe ill than well of their neighbours.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Men are never so easily deceived as while they are endeavouring to deceive others.= _La Roche._

=Men are never wise but returning from law.= _Pr._

=Men are not always what they seem to be.= 10 _Lessing._

=Men are not influenced by things, but by their thoughts about things.= _Epictetus._

=Men are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves.= _Emerson._

=Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly fiddled on by the fingers of joy.= _Ward Beecher._

=Men are not so ungrateful as they are said to be. If they are often complained of, it generally happens that the benefactor claims more than he has given.= _Napoleon._

=Men are not to be measured by inches.= _Pr._ 15

=Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.= _Walpole._

=Men are oftener treacherous through weakness than design.= _La Roche._

=Men are readier to forgive calumny than admonition= (_Ermahnung_). _Jean Paul._

=Men are respectable only as they respect.= _Emerson._

=Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and= 20 =good sense at the same time.= _Livy._

=Men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are making money.= _Johnson._

=Men are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake himself what he sees done by others, whether he has aptitude for it or not.= _Goethe._

=Men are solitary among each other; no one will help his neighbour; each has even to assume a defensive attitude lest his neighbour should hinder him.= _Carlyle._

=Men are tatooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea islanders; but a real human heart, with divine love in it, beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.= _Holmes._

=Men are the sport of circumstances, when= 25 =the circumstances seem the sport of men.= _Byron._

=Men are unwiser than children; they do not know the hand that feeds them.= _Carlyle._

=Men are very generous with that which costs them nothing.= _Pr._

=Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade / Of that which once was great is passed away.= _Wordsworth._

=Men are what their mothers made them.= _Emerson._

=Men are wiser than they know.= _Emerson._ 30

=Men at most differ as heaven and earth, / But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell.= _Tennyson._

=Men at some time are masters of their fate.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.

=Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanities.= _La Bruyère._

=Men can be estimated by those who know them not, only as they are represented by those who know them.= _Johnson._

=Men / Can counsel, and speak comfort to that= 35 =grief / Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it, / Their counsel turns to passion, which before / Would give preceptial medicine to rage, / Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, / Charm ache with air and agony with words.= _Much Ado_, v. 1.

=Men can make an idol of the Bible.= _Ward Beecher._

=Men can see through a barn-door, they can. Perhaps that's the reason they can see so little o' this side on't.= _George Eliot._

=Men cannot be well educated without the Bible.= _Dr. Nott._

=Men cannot benefit those that are with them as they can benefit those that come after them; and of all the pulpits from which the human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.= _Ruskin._

=Men cannot live by lending money to each= 40 =other.= _Ruskin._

=Men cannot live isolated; we are all bound together, for mutual good or else for mutual misery, as living nerves in the same body. No highest man can disunite himself from any lowest.= _Carlyle._

=Men carry the head erect indeed, yet how mean and cringing are the thoughts within.= _Heine._

=Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.= _Emerson._

=Men chew not when they have no bread.= _Pr._

=Men commonly think according to their inclinations,= 45 =speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom.= _Bacon._

=Men complain of not finding a place of repose. They are in the wrong; they have it for seeking. What they indeed should complain of is, that the heart is an enemy to that very repose they seek.= _Goldsmith._

=Men contemplate distinctions because they are stupefied with ignorance= (viz., of the substantial identity of things). _Eastern saying, quoted by Emerson._

=Men deal with life as children with their play, / Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.= _Cowper._

=Men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies.= _Goethe._

=Men descend to meet.= _Emerson._

=Men do not make their homes unhappy because they have genius, but because they have not enough genius.= _Wordsworth._

=Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them: they don't live by trade but by work.= _Ruskin._

=Men dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.= _Pope._

=Men, elevated above all states, are now the= 5 =educators of states--dead men, for instance, like Plato.= _Jean Paul._

=Men err from selfishness, women because they are weak.= _Mme. de Staël._

=Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark.= _Bacon._

=Men fear only him who does not know them, and he who shuns them will soon misjudge them.= _Goethe._

=Men feed themselves rather upon illusion than upon truth.= _Amiel._

=Men find it more easy to flatter than to praise.= 10 _Jean Paul._

=Men have been wise in very different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.= _Johnson._

=Men have but too much cause to secure themselves from men.= _Goethe._

=Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead.= _Emerson._

=Men have many faults; / Poor women have but two; / There's nothing good they say, / And nothing right they do.= _Anon._

=Men have their metal, as of gold and silver.= 15 _Koran._

=Men in all ways are better than they seem.= _Emerson._

=Men in general experience a great joy in colour. The eye needs it as much as it does light. Let any one recall the refreshing sensation one experiences when on a gloomy day the sun shines out on a particular spot on the landscape, and makes the colours of it visible. That healing powers were ascribed to coloured precious stones may have arisen out of the deep feeling of this inexpressible pleasure.= _Goethe._

=Men in great place are thrice servants--servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.= _Bacon._

=Men, in spite of all their failings, best deserve our affections of all that exists.= _Goethe._

=Men learn behaviour, as they take diseases,= 20 =one of another.= _Emerson._

=Men like advising the women better than doing right themselves.= _Spurgeon._

=Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.= _Jean Paul._

=Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.= _Bovee._

=Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.= _Holmes._

=Men look to what people think of them;= 25 =women to what they say.= _Hippel._

=Men love at first, and most warmly; women love last and longest. This is natural enough, for nature makes women to be won, and men to win.= _G. W. Curtis._

=Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.= _Byron._

=Men love things best; women love persons best.= _Jean Paul._

=Men love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret, as an old friar would be without his hair-girdle.= _Ward Beecher._

=Men love us, or they need our love.= _Keble._ 30

=Men make the best friends.= _La Bruyère._

=Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.= _Young._

=Men may rise on stepping-stones / Of their dead selves to higher things.= _Tennyson._

=Men might live quiet and easy enough, if they would be careful not to give themselves trouble, and forbear meddling with what other people do and say, in which they are in no way concerned.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Men more easily renounce their interests than= 35 =their tastes.= _La Roche._

=Men must be taught as though you taught them not.= _Pope._

=Men must endure / Their going hence, even as their coming hither: / Ripeness is all.= _Lear_, v. 2.

=Men must have righteous principles in the first place, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.= _Luther._

=Men must leave the ingle-nook, / And for a larger wisdom brook / Experience of a harder law, / And learn humility and awe.= _Dr. Walter Smith._

=Men must work, and women must weep, /= 40 =Though storms be sudden, and waters deep, / And the harbour bar be moaning.= _Charles Kingsley._

=Men no longer wholly believe; in this age of blindness and scientific pride, no one is any longer seen bowing before his god on both his knees.= _Victor Hugo._

=Men no sooner find their appetites unanswered than they complain the times are injurious.= _Raleigh._

=Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.= _Bacon._

=Men of courage, men of sense, and men of letters are frequent; but a true gentleman is what one seldom sees.= _Steele._

=Men of few words are the best men.= _Henry_ 45 _V._, iii. 2.

=Men of genius are dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to the earth, is only a stone.= _Longfellow._

=Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.= _Coleridge._

=Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labour in it, but they labour in it because they excel.= _Hazlitt._

=Men of genius have acuter feelings than common men; they are like the wind-harp, which answers to the breath that touches it, now low and sweet, now rising into wild swell or angry scream, as the strings are swept by some passing gust.= _Froude._

=Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.= _Emerson._

=Men of great gifts you will easily find, but symmetrical men never.= _Emerson._

=Men of great intellect live in the world without really belonging to it.= _Schiller._

=Men of great learning or genius are too full to be exact, and therefore choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.= _Spectator._

=Men of great parts are often unfortunate in= 5 =the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.= _Swift._

=Men of humour are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.= _Coleridge._

=Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.= _Milton._

=Men of science should leave controversy to the little world below them.= _Goldsmith._

=Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.= _Emerson._

=Men of sense often learn from their enemies.= 10 _Aristophanes._

=Men of the first quality learn nothing, and become wise; men of the second rank become sensible= (_klug_), =and learn long; men of the third sort remain stupid, and learn words.= _Rückert._

=Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition, and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it.= _Addison._

=Men of true wisdom and goodness are contented to take persons and things as they are, without complaining of their imperfections or attempting to amend them.= _Fielding._

=Men of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their powers.= _Goethe._

=Men only associate in parties by sacrificing= 15 =their opinions, or by having none worth sacrificing; and the effect of party government is always to develop hostilities and hypocrisies, and to extinguish ideas.= _Ruskin._

=Men only rightly know themselves as far as they have experimented on things.= _Emerson._

=Men ought to find the difference between saltness and bitterness.= _Bacon._

=Men possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.= _Froude._

=Men possessing small souls are generally the authors of great evils.= _Goethe._

=Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.= 20 _Troil. and Cress._, i. 2.

=Men rate the virtues of the heart at almost nothing, while they idolise endowments of body and intellect.= _La Bruyère._

=Men rattle their chains to show that they are free.= _Pr._

=Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.= _Emerson._

=Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings. Men say their aisles are good for worship. Why, so is every mountain glen and rough seashore. But this they have of distinct and indisputable glory,--that their mighty walls were never raised, and never shall be, but by men who love and aid each other in their weakness.= _Ruskin._

=Men seek within the short span of life to= 25 =satisfy a thousand desires, each of which alone is insatiable.= _Goldsmith._

=Men seem to be led by their noses, but in reality it is by their ears.= _Carlyle._

=Men should be prized, not for their exemption from fault, but the size of those virtues they are possessed of.= _Goldsmith._

=Men should be what they seem; / Or those that be not, would they might seem none.= _Othello_, iii. 3.

=Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.= _Mme. Scudéri._

=Men should not be told of the faults which= 30 =they have mended.= _Johnson._

=Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.= _Goethe._

=Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; / But every woman is at heart a rake; / Men, some to quiet, some to public strife; / But every lady would be queen for life.= _Pope._

=Men speak but little when vanity does not induce them to speak.= _La Roche._

=Men spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.= _Steele._

=Men still are what they always have been, a= 35 =medley= (_Gemisch_) =of strength and weakness, often obedient to reason, and oftener to passion; so have they come down the stream of time for six thousand years, and mostly in such shape as the moment has fashioned them.= _Seume._

=Men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.= _Burke._

=Men that hazard all / Do it in hope of fair advantages.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 7.

=Men that make / Envy and crooked malice nourishment / Dare bite the best.= _Hen. VIII._, v. 3.

=Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.= _Hare._

=Men think they are quarrelling with one= 40 =another, and both sides feel that they are in the wrong.= _Goethe._

=Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape their shadows.= _Froude, Carlyle._

=Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.= _Sterne._

=Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.= _Seneca._

=Men understand not what is among their hands; as calmness is the characteristic of strength, so the weightiest causes may be the most silent.= _Carlyle._

=Men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble, and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.= _Sir T. More._

=Men, who are knaves individually, are in the mass very honourable people.= _Montesquieu._

=Men who begin by losing their independence will end by losing their energy.= _Buckle._

=Men who, being always bred in affluence,= 5 =see the world only on one side, are surely improper judges of human nature.= _Goldsmith._

=Men who earn nothing but compliments are not likely to be very diligent in so unprofitable a service.= _Spurgeon._

=Men who form their judgment upon sense often err.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.= _Emerson._

=Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.= _Bulwer Lytton._

=Men who their duties know, / But know their= 10 =rights, and, knowing, dare maintain.= _Sir W. Jones._

=Men will always act according to their passions. Therefore the best government is that which inspires the nobler passions and destroys the meaner.= _Jacobi._

=Men will blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.= _Pr._

=Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.= _Hazlitt._

=Men will face powder and steel, because they cannot face public opinion.= _Chapin._

=Men will forget what we suffer, and not what= 15 =we do.= _Tennyson._

=Men will marry a fool that sings, sooner than one that has learned to scoff.= _Dr. Walter Smith._

=Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it--anything but live for it.= _Colton._

=Men work themselves into atheistical judgments by atheistical practice.= _Whichcote._

=Men would be angels, angels would be gods.= _Pope._

=Men would not live long in society, were they= 20 =not the mutual dupes of each other.= _La Roche._

=Men's actions are not to be judged of at first sight.= _Pr._

=Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.= _Emerson._

=Men's best successes come after their disappointments.= _Ward Beecher._

=Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues / We write in water.= _Henry VIII._, iv. 2.

=Men's hearts ought not to be set against one= 25 =another, but set with one another, and all against the evil thing only.= _Carlyle._

=Men's ignorance makes the priest's pot boil.= _Fr. Pr._

=Men's muscles move better when their souls are making merry music.= _George Eliot._

=Men's natures wrangle with inferior things, / Though great ones are their object.= _Othello_, iii. 4.

=Men's prosperity is in their own hands, and no forms of government are, in themselves, of the least use.= _Ruskin._

=Men's souls 'twixt sorrow and love are cast.= 30 _O. M. Brown._

=Men's thoughts and opinions are, in a great degree, vassals of him who invents a new phrase or reapplies an old epithet.= _Lowell._

=Men's thoughts are much according to their inclinations; their discourses and speeches, according to their learning and infused opinions.= _Bacon._

=Men's vows are women's traitors.= _Cymbeline_, iii. 4.

=Menace-moi de vivre et non pas de mourir=--Threaten me with life and not with death. _Fr._

=Ménage=--Housekeeping. _Fr._ 35

=Mendacem memorem esse oportet=--A liar ought to have a good memory. _Quinct._

=Mendaces, ebriosi, verbosi=--Liars, drunkards, and wordy people.

=Mendaci homini, ne verum quidem dicenti credere solemus=--We give no credit to a liar, even when he speaks the truth. _Cic._

=Mendici, mimi, balatrones, et hoc genus omne=--Beggars, actors in farces, buffoons, and all that sort of people. _Hor._

=Mendico ne parentes quidem amici sunt=--To 40 a beggar not even his own parents show affection. _Pr._

=Mendings are honourable, rags are abominable.= _Pr._

=Mens æqua rebus in arduis=--Equanimity in arduous enterprises. _M._

=Mens agitat molem=--A mind moves or informs the mass. _Virg._

=Mens bona regnum possidet=--A good mind possesses a kingdom. _Pr._

=Mens conscia recti=--A mind conscious of rectitude. 45

=Mens cujusque est quisque=--The mind of the man is the man. _M._

=Mens immota manet; lachrymæ volvuntur inanes=--His resolve remains unshaken; tears are shed in vain. _Virg._

=Mens interrita lethi=--A mind undaunted by death. _Ovid._

=Mens invicta manet=--The mind remains unsubdued.

=Mens peccat, non corpus, et unde consilium= 50 =abfuit culpa abest=--It is the mind that sins, not the body, and where there was no intention there is no criminality. _Liv._

=Mens sana in corpore sano=--A sound mind in a sound body. _Juv._

=Mens sine pondere ludit=--The mind is playful when unburdened.

=Mensa et toro=--From bed and board. _L._

=Menschenkenntniss ist Unglaube an Tugend und Redlichkeit=--A knowledge of mankind tends to induce a want of faith in virtue and probity. _C. J. Weber._

=Menschlich ist es bloss zu strafen, / Aber= 55 =göttlich zu verzeihn=--To punish is merely human, but to forgive is divine. _P. von Winter._

=Mensque pati durum sustinet ægra nihil=--A mind diseased cannot bear anything harsh. _Ovid._

=Mensuraque juris / Vis erat=--And might was the measure of right. _Lucan._

=Mental courage, infinitely rarer than valour, presupposes the most eminent qualities.= _Diderot._

=Mental pleasures never cloy: unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved of by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.= _Colton._