Chapter M (11)

=Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness= 45 =in itself has the aspect of strength.= _Bulwer Lytton._

=Power, like a desolating pestilence, / Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, / Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, / Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame a mechanized automaton.= _Shelley._

=Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation.= _Colton._

=Power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring.= _Bacon._

=Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, no man good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power.= _Colton._

=Power's footstool is opinion, and his throne the= 50 =human heart.= _Sir Aubrey de Vere._

=Powerful attachment will give a man spirit and confidence which he could by no means call up or command of himself; and in this mood he can do wonders which would not be possible to him without it.= _Matthew Arnold._

=Practically men have come to imagine that the laws of this universe, like the laws of constitutional countries, are decided by voting; that it is all a study of division-lists, and for the universe too depends a little on the activity of the whippers-in.= _Carlyle._

=Practice aims at what is immediate; speculation at what is remote. In practical life, the wisest and soundest men avoid speculation, and ensure success, because, by limiting their range, they increase the tenacity with which they grasp events, while in speculative life the course is exactly the reverse, since in that department the greater the range the greater the command.= _Buckle._

=Practice in time becomes second nature.= _Anon._

=Practice is everything.= _Periander._

=Practice makes perfect.= _Pr._ 5

=Practice must settle the habit of doing without reflecting on the rule.= _Locke._

=Practise thrift, or else you'll drift.= _Pr._

=Præcedentibus insta=--Follow close on those who precede. _M._

=Præcepta ducunt, at exempla trahunt=--Precept guides, but example draws. _Pr._

=Præmia virtutis honores=--Honours are the rewards 10 of virtue. _M._

=Præsis ut prosis=--Be first, that you may be of service. _M._

=Præsto et persto=--I press on and persevere. _M._

=Praise a fool and you may make him useful.= _Dan. Pr._

=Praise a fool, and you water his folly.= _Pr._

=Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes= 15 =her at the grave. Plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then.= _Lowell._

=Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.= _Steele._

=Praise God more, and blame neighbours less.= _Pr._

=Praise is indeed the consequence and encouragement of virtue; but it is sometimes so unseasonably applied as to become its bane and corruption too.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Praise is so pleasing to the mind of man that it is the original motive of almost all our actions.= _Johnson._

=Praise is the tribute of men, but felicity the= 20 =gift of God.= _Bacon._

=Praise is virtue's shadow; who courts her doth more the handmaid than the dame admire.= _Heath._

=Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.= _Johnson._

=Praise makes good men better, and bad men worse.= _Pr._

=Praise Peter, but don't find fault with Paul.= _Pr._

=Praise the bridge which carries you over.= _Pr._ 25

=Praise the hill, but keep below.= _Pr._

=Praise the sea, but keep on land.= _George Herbert._

=Praise undeserved is satire in disguise.= _Pope._

[Greek: praos tous logous, oxys ta pragmata]--Mild in speech, keen in action. _Himerius._

=Pray devoutly, / And hammer stoutly.= _Pr._ 30

=Pray to God, but keep the hammer going.= _Pr._

=Pray to God, sailor, but pull for the shore.= _Pr._

=Prayer and practice is good rhyme.= _Sc. Pr._

=Prayer and provender never hinder a journey.= _Pr._

=Prayer is a groan.= _St. Jerome._ 35

=Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereto.= _Luther._

=Prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.= _Bunyan._

=Prayer is a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite.= _Emerson._

=Prayer is a turning of one's soul, in heroic reverence, in infinite desire and endeavour, towards the Highest, the All-excellent, Supreme.= _Carlyle, in a letter to a young friend._

=Prayer is intended to increase the devotion of= 40 =the individual, but if the individual himself prays he requires no formulæ.... Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.= _W. v. Humboldt._

=Prayer is the aspiration of our poor, struggling, heavy-laden soul towards its Eternal Father, and, with or without words, ought not to become impossible, nor need it ever. Loyal sons and subjects can approach the King's throne who have no "request" to make there except that they may continue loyal.= _Carlyle, in a letter to a young friend._

=Prayer is the cable, at whose end appears / The anchor hope, ne'er slipp'd but in our fears.= _Quarles._

=Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, / The Christian's native air.= _James Montgomery._

=Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscles of Omnipotence.= _Martin Tupper._

=Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, / Uttered= 45 =or unexpressed, / The motion of a hidden fire that trembles in the breast.= _J. Montgomery._

=Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven; and meditation the eye with which we see God.= _St. Ambrose._

=Prayer knocks till the door opens.= _Pr._

=Prayer, like Jonathan's bow, returns not empty.= _Gurnall._

=Prayer moves the hand that moves the universe.= _Anon._

=Prayer must not come from the roof of the= 50 =mouth, but from the root of the heart.= _Pr._

=Prayer purifies; it is a self-preached sermon.= _Jean Paul._

=Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.= _Pr._

=Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious. As a means to effect a private end, it is meanness and theft.= _Emerson._

=Prayers are but the body of the bird; desires are its angel's wings.= _Jeremy Taylor._

=Praying's the end of preaching.= _George Herbert._ 55

=Preaching is of much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument that you can offer to the sceptic.= _H. Ballou._

=Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.= _Emerson._

=Précepte commence, exemple achève=--Precept begins, example perfects. _Fr._

=Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.= _Sen._

=Preces armatæ=--Armed prayers, _i.e._, with arms to back them up.

=Precious beyond price are good resolutions. Valuable beyond price are good feelings.= _H. R. Haweis._

=Precious ointments are put in small boxes.= _Pr._

=Predominant opinions are generally the= 5 =opinions of the generation that is vanishing.= _Disraeli._

=Prefer loss before unjust gain; for that brings grief but once, this for ever.= _Chilo._

=Prejudice is a prophet which prophesies only evil.= _Pr._

=Prejudice is the child of ignorance.= _Hazlitt._

=Prejudice squints when it looks, and lies when it talks.= _Duchess d'Abrantes._

=Prejudice, which he pretends to hate, is man's= 10 =absolute lawgiver; mere use-and-wont everywhere leads him by the nose: thus let but a rising of the sun, let but a creation of the world happen twice, and it ceases to be marvellous, to be noteworthy or noticeable.= _Carlyle._

=Prendre la clef des champs=--To run away (_lit._ take the key of the fields). _Fr. Pr._

=Prendre les choses au pis=--To regard matters in the most unfavourable light. _Fr._

=Prends le premier conseil d'une femme et non le second=--Take a woman's first advice and not her second. _Fr. Pr._

=Prends moi tel que je suis=--Take me as I am. _M._

=Present fears / Are less than horrible imaginings.= 15 _Macb._, i. 3.

=Preserve the rights of inferior places, and think it more honour to direct in chief than to be busy in all.= _Bacon._

=Pressure alone causes water to rise and directs it.= _Renan._

=Presumption is our natural and original disease.= _Montaigne._

=Presumptuousness, which audaciously strides over all the steps of gradual culture, affords little encouragement to hope for any masterpiece.= _Goethe._

=Prêt d'accomplir=--Ready to accomplish. _M._ 20

=Prêt pour mon pays=--Ready for my country. _M._

="Pretty Pussy" will not feed a cat.= _Pr._

=Prevention is better than cure.= _Pr._

=Pria Veneziani, poi Christiane=--Venetian first, Christian afterwards. _Ven. Pr._

=Pride adds to a man's stature; vanity only= 25 =puffs him out.= _Chamfort._

=Pride and grace ne'er dwell in ae place.= _Sc. Pr._

=Pride and poverty are ill met, yet often live together.= _Pr._

=Pride feels no cold.= _Pr._

=Pride flows from want of reflection and ignorance of ourselves. Knowledge and humility come upon us together.= _Addison._

=Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty= 30 =spirit before a fall.= _Bible._

=Pride hath no other glass to show itself but pride.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 3.

=Pride, ill-nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill-manners; without some one of these defects no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.= _Swift._

=Pride is a flower that grows in the devil's garden.= _Howell._

=Pride is lofty, calm, immovable; vanity is uncertain, capricious, and unjust.= _Chamfort._

=Pride is still aiming at the blest abodes; /= 35 =Men would be angels, angels would be gods; / Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, / Aspiring to be angels, men rebel.= _Pope._

=Pride is the source of a thousand virtues; vanity is that of nearly all vices and all perversities.= _Chamfort._

=Pride must suffer pain.= _Pr._

=Pride never leaves its master till he gets a fa'.= _Sc. Pr._

=Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.= _Lowell._

=Pride, the never-failing vice of fools.= _Pope._ 40

=Pride will have a fall; for pride goeth before, and shame cometh after.= _Pr._

=Pride with pride will not abide.= _Pr._

=Pride would never owe, nor self-love ever pay.= _La Roche._

=Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but bony bodies.= _Pr._

=Priestcraft is no better than witchcraft.= _Pr._ 45

=Priesthoods that do not teach, aristocracies that do not govern; the misery of that, and the misery of altering that, are written in Belshazzar fire-letters on the history of France.= _Carlyle._

=Priests pray for enemies, but princes kill.= 2 _Hen. VI._, v. 2.

=Prima et maxima peccantium est pœna peccasse=--The first and greatest punishment of sinners is the conscience of sin. _Sen._

=Prima facie=--At first sight or view of a case.

=Primo avulso non deficit alter / aureus=--The first 50 being wrenched away, another of gold succeeds. _Virg._

=Primum mobile=--The primary motive power.

=Primus in orbe Deos fecit timor=--It was fear that first suggested the existence of the gods. _Statius._

=Primus inter pares=--The first among equals.

=Primus sapientiæ gradus est falsa intelligere=--The first step towards wisdom is to distinguish what is false.

=Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, /= 55 ="An honest man's the noblest work of God."= _Burns._

=Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; / A breath can make them, as a breath has made.= _Goldsmith._

=Principes mortales, rempublicam æternam=--Princes are mortal, the republic is eternal. _Tac._

=Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est=--To have earned the goodwill of the great is not the least of merits. _Hor._

=Principiis obsta; sero medicina paratur, / Cum mala per longas convaluere moras=--Resist the first beginnings; a cure is attempted too late when through long delay the malady has waxed strong. _Ovid._

=Principis est virtus maxima nosse suos=--It is the greatest merit of a prince to know those his subjects. _Mart._

=Principle is a passion for truth.= (?)

=Principle is ever my motto, not expediency.= _Disraeli._

=Prisoners of hope.= _Bible._

=Pristinæ virtutis memores=--Mindful of ancient 5 valour. _M._

=Priusquam incipias consulto, et ubi consulueris mature facto opus est=--Before you begin, consider; but having considered, use despatch. _Sall._

=Private affection bereaves us easily of a right judgment.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Private credit is wealth; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.= _Junius._

=Private judgment with the accent on "private" is self-will; but with the accent on "judgment," it is freedom, free-will.= _J. Hutchison Stirling._

=Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is= 10 =almost omnipotent.= _Ward Beecher._

=Private reproof is the best grave for private faults.= _Pr._

=Private self-regard must have been wholly subordinated to, if not entirely cast out by, a higher principle of action and a purer affection before a man can become either truly moral or religious.= _J. C. Sharp._

=Privatorum conventio juri publico non derogat=--No bargain between individuals derogates from a law. _L._

=Privatus illis census erat brevis, / Commune magnum=--Their private property was small, the public revenue great. _Hor._

=Privilegium est quasi privata lex=--Privilege is 15 as it were private law. _L._

=Pro aris et focis=--For our altars and our hearths.

=Pro bono publico=--For the public good.

=Pro Christo et patria=--For Christ and country. _M._

=Pro confesso=--As confessed or admitted.

=Pro Deo et rege=--For God and king. _M._ 20

=Pro et con.=--For and against.

=Pro forma=--For form's sake.

=Pro hac vice=--For this turn; on this occasion.

=Pro libertate patriæ=--For the liberty of my country. _M._

=Pro patria et rege=--For king and country. _M._ 25

=Pro rata (parte)=--In proportion, proportionally.

=Pro re nata=--For circumstances that have arisen.

=Pro rege et patria=--For king and country. _M._

=Pro rege, lege, et grege=--For king, law, and people. _M._

=Pro tanto=--For so much. 30

=Pro tempore=--For the time.

=Pro virtute bellica=--For valour in war. _M._

=Pro virtute felix temeritas=--Instead of valour successful rashness. _Sen., of Alexander the Great._

=Probably imposture is of a sanative, anodyne nature, and man's gullibility not his worst blessing.= _Carlyle._

=Probably men were never born demigods in any= 35 =century, but precisely god-devils as we see; certain of whom do become a kind of demigods.= _Carlyle._

=Probatum est=--It has been settled.

=Probitas laudatur, et alget=--Integrity is praised and is left out in the cold. _Juv._

=Probitas verus honos=--Integrity is true honour. _M._

=Probitate et labore=--By honesty and labour. _M._

=Probity is as rarely in accord with interest as= 40 =reason is with passion.= _Saneal-Dubay._

=Probum non pœnitet=--The upright man has no regrets. _M._

=Procellæ quanto plus habent virium tanto minus temporis=--The more violent storms are, the sooner they are over. _Sen._

=Procrastination is the thief of time.= _Young._

=Procul a Jove, procul a fulmine.=--Far from Jove, far from his thunderbolts. _Pr._

=Procul O! procul este, profani=--Away, I pray 45 you; keep off, ye profane. _Virg._

=Prodesse quam conspici=--To be of service rather than to be conspicuous. _M._

=Prodigus et stultus donat quæ spernit et odit. / Hæc seges ingratos tulit, et feret omnibus annis=--The spendthrift and fool gives away what he despises and hates. This seed has ever borne, and will bear, an ungrateful brood. _Hor._

=Productions (of a certain artistic quality) are at present possible which are nought= (_Null_) =without being bad--nought, because there is nothing in them, and not bad, because a general form after some good model has hovered vaguely= (_vorschwebt_) =before the mind of the author.= _Goethe._

=Profaneness is a brutal vice; he who indulges in it is no gentleman.= _Chapin._

=Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing= 50 =and appreciating either diamonds in the rough state or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical laboratory has scales and weights, but neither crucible nor touchstone.= _Joubert._

=Proffered service stinks=, _i.e._, is not appreciated. _Pr._

=Profligacy consists not in spending years of time or chests of money, but in spending them off the line of your career.= _Emerson._

=Profound joy has more of severity than gaiety in it.= _Montaigne._

=Progress begins with the minority.= _G. W. Curtis._

=Progress is the law of life--man is not man as= 55 =yet.= _Browning._

=Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, / Not God's and not the beasts': God is, they are; / Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.= _Browning._

=Progress--the stride of God.= _Victor Hugo._

=Prohibetur ne quis faciat in suo, quod nocere potest in alieno=--No one is allowed to do on his own premises what may injure those of a neighbour. _L._

=Prolonged endurance tames the bold.= _Byron._

=Promettre c'est donner, espérer c'est jouir=--Promising 60 is giving, and hoping is fruition. _Delille._

=Promise is most given when the least is said.= _Chapman._

=Promises make debts, and debts make promises.= _Dut. Pr._

=Promises may get friends, but it is performance that must nurse and keep them.= _Owen Feltham._

=Proof of a God? A probable God! The smallest of finites struggling to prove to itself ... and include within itself, the Highest Infinite, in which, by hypothesis, it lives and moves and has its being! Man, reduced to wander about, in stooping posture, with painfully-constructed sulphur-match, and farthing rushlight, or smoky tar-link, searching for the sun.= _Carlyle._

=Prope ad summum, prope ad exitum=--Near the summit, near the end. _Pr._

=Propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty.= _Hume._

=Proper words in proper places make the true= 5 =definition of a style.= _Swift._

=Properly speaking, the land belongs to these two: to the Almighty God and to all His children of men that have ever worked well on it, or shall ever work well on it.= _Carlyle._

=Properly thou hast no other knowledge but what thou hast got by working.= _Carlyle._

=Property has its duties as well as its rights.= _Drummond._

=Property, O brother? Of my body I have but a liferent.... But my soul, breathed into me by God, my Me, and what capability is there, I call that mine and not thine. I will keep that, and do what work I can with it; God has given it me; the devil shall not take it away.= _Carlyle._

=Property there is among us valuable to the= 10 =auctioneer; but the accumulated manufacturing, commercial, economic skill which lies impalpably warehoused in English hands and heads, what auctioneer can estimate?= _Carlyle._

=Prophecy, not poetry, is the thing wanted in these days. How can we sing and paint when we do not yet believe and see?= _Carlyle._

=Prophete rechts, Prophete links / Das Weltkind in der Mitten=--Prophets to right, prophets to left, the world-child between. _Goethe._

=Propositi tenax=--Tenacious of my purpose. _M._

=Propriæ telluris herum natura, neque illum, / Nec me, nec quemquam statuit. Nos expulit ille: / Illum aut nequities, aut vafri inscitia juris, / Postremo expellet certe vivacior hæres=--Nature has appointed neither him nor me, nor any one, lord of this land in perpetuity. That one has ejected us; either some villany or quirk at law, at any rate, an heir surviving him, will at last eject him. _Hor._

=Propriety of thought and propriety of diction= 15 =are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style.= _Macaulay._

=Proprio motu=--Of his own motion; spontaneously.

=Proprio vigore=--Of one's own strength.

=Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem læseris=--It is a weakness of your human nature to hate those whom you have wronged. _Tac._

=Proque sua causa quisque disertus erat=--Every one was eloquent in his own cause. _Ovid._

=Prose, words in their best order; poetry, the= 20 =best words in the best order.= _Coleridge._

=Prosperity destroys fools and endangers the wise.= _Pr._

=Prosperity doth best discover vice, and adversity doth best discover virtue.= _Bacon._

=Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.= _Bacon._

=Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favour.= _Bacon._

=Prosperity is the touchstone of virtue; for it= 25 =is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.= _Tac._

=Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.= _H. Ballou._

=Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.= _Pliny the Younger._

=Prosperum et felix scelus / Virtus vocatur=--Crime when it succeeds is called virtue. _Sen._

=Protectio trahit subjectionem, et subjectio protectionem=--Protection involves allegiance, and allegiance protection. _L._

=Protestantism is a revolt against false sovereigns;= 30 =the painful but indispensable first preparation for true sovereigns getting place among us.= _Carlyle._

=Proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.= _Emerson._

=Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.= _St. Paul._

=Proverbs are easily made in cold blood.= _Joe Willet._

=Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond-fields of the mind.= _W. R. Alger._

=Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long= 35 =experience.= _Cervantes._

=Proverbs are the abridgments of wisdom.= _Joubert._

=Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.= _Dut. Pr._

=Proverbs are the wisdom of ages.= _Ger. Pr._

=Proverbs are the wisdom of the streets.= _Pr._

=Proverbs cover the whole field of man as he is,= 40 =and life as it is, not of either as they ought to be.= _John Morley._

=Proverbs have been always dear to the true intellectual aristocracy of a nation.= _Trench._

=Proverbs have, not a few of them, come down to us from remotest antiquity, borne safely upon the waters of that great stream of time which has swallowed so much beneath its waves.= _Trench._

=Proverbs have pleased not one nation only, but many, so that they have made themselves a home in the most different lands.= _Trench._

=Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions.= _Emerson._

=Proverbs please the people, and have pleased= 45 =them for ages.= _Trench._

=Proverbs possess so vigorous a principle of life, as to have maintained their ground, ever new and ever young, through all the centuries of a nation's existence.= _Trench._

=Proverbs were anterior to books, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.= _I. Disraeli._

=Provide things honest in the sight of all men.= _St. Paul._

=Providence certainly does not favour individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsels extends to the instruction and ennoblement of all.= _W. v. Humboldt._

=Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.= _Lamartine._

=Providence gives the power, of which reason teaches the use.= _Johnson._

=Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end; and it is no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.= _Emerson._

=Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions--money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion--should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and unworthy; but those things which constitute our true riches, and which are properly our own, must be procured by our own labour.= _Erasmus._

=Providence has given to the French the empire= 5 =of the land; to the English, that of the sea; to the Germans, that of--the air.= _Mme. de Staël._

=Providence is but another name for natural law.= _Ward Beecher._

=Providence is my next-door neighbour.= _An Italian hermit._

=Providence is not counteracted by any means which Providence puts into our power.= _Johnson._

=Providence may change, but the promise must stand.= _Pr._

=Providence often puts a large potato in a little= 10 =pig's way.= _Pr._

=Providence provides for the provident.= _Pr._

=Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.= _Sir P. Sidney._

=Provocarem ad Philippum, inquit, sed sobrium=--I would appeal to Philip, she said, but to Philip sober. _Val. Max._

=Proximorum incuriosi, longinqua sectamur=--Uninquisitive of things near, we pursue those which are at a distance. _Pliny._

=Proximus a tectis ignis defenditur ægre=--A 15 fire is difficult to ward off when next house is in flames. _Ovid._

=Proximus ardet Ucalegon=--The house of your neighbour Ucalegon is on fire. _Virg._

=Proximus sum egomet mihi=--I am my own nearest of kin. _Ter._

=Prudence and greatness are ever persuading us to contrary pursuits. The one instructs us to be content with our station, and to find happiness in bounding every wish: the other impels us to superiority, and calls nothing happiness but rapture.= _Goldsmith._

=Prudence and love are not made for each other; as the love increases, prudence diminishes.= _La Roche._

=Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the= 20 =virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.= _Jeremy Collier._

=Prudence is that virtue by which we discern what is proper to be done under the various circumstances of time and place.= _Milton._

=Prudence is the virtue of the senses, the science of appearances, the outmost action of the inward life, God taking thought for oxen.= _Emerson._

=Prudens futuri temporis exitum / Caliginosa nocte premit Deus; / Ridetque, si mortalis ultra / Fas trepidat=--The Deity in His wisdom veils in the darkness of night the events of the future; and smiles if a mortal is unduly solicitous about what he is not permitted to know. _Hor._

=Prudens interrogatio quasi dimidium sapientiæ=--Prudent questioning is, as it were, the half of knowledge.

=Prudens qui patiens=--He is prudent who has 25 patience. _M._

=Prudens simplicitas=--A prudent simplicity. _M._

=Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limitation and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.= _Goethe._

=Prudentia et constantia=--By prudence and constancy. _M._

=Prudentis est mutare consilium; stultus sicut luna mutatur=--A prudent man may, on occasion, change his opinion, but a fool changes as often as the moon.

=Prüft das Geschick dich, weiss es wohl warum; /= 30 =Es wünschte dich enthaltsam! Folge stumm=--Destiny is proving thee; well knows she why: she meant thee to be abstinent! Follow thou dumb. _Goethe._

=Pshaw! what is this little dog-cage of an earth? what art thou that sittest whining there? Thou art still nothing, nobody; true, but who then is something, somebody?= _Carlyle._

=Public affairs ought to progress quickly or slowly, but the people have always too much action or too little. Sometimes with their hundred thousand arms they will overthrow everything, and sometimes with their hundred thousand feet they will crawl along like insects.= _Montesquieu._

=Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.= _Chapin._

=Public instruction should be the first object of government.= _Napoleon._

=Public opinion is a second conscience.= _W. R._ 35 _Alger._

=Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.= _Thoreau._

=Public opinion is democratic.= _J. G. Holland._

=Public opinion is the mixed result of the intellect of the community acting upon general feeling.= _Hazlitt._

=Publicum bonum privato est præferendum=--The public good must be preferred to private. _L._

=Publicum meritorum præmium=--The public reward 40 for public services. _M._

=Pulchre! bene! recte!=--Beautiful! good! correct! _Hor._

=Pulvis et umbra sumus, fruges consumere nati=--We are but dust and shadows, born merely to consume the fruits of the earth. _Hor._

=Punctuality is the soul of business.= _Pr._

=Punishment follows hard upon crime.= _Pr._

=Punishment is justice for the unjust.= _St._ 45 _Augustine._

=Punishment is the last and the worst instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.= _Ruskin._

=Punishment of a miser--to pay the drafts of his heir in his tomb.= _Hawthorne._

[Greek: pyr machaira mê skaleuein]--Don't stir fire with sword. _Pythagoras._

=Puras Deus non plenas adspicit manus=--God looks to clean hands, not to full ones. (?)

=Purchase the next world with this; thus shalt= 5 =thou win both.= _Arab. Pr._

=Pure enjoyment and true usefulness can only be reciprocal.= _Goethe._

=Pure love cannot merely do all, but is all.= _Jean Paul._

=Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.= _St. James._

=Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation, because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves. They will not advance their minds to the standard, therefore they lower the standard to their minds.= _Colton._

=Puridad de dos, puridad de Dios; puridad de= 10 =tres, de todos es=--A secret between two is God's secret; but a secret between three is all men's. _Sp. Pr._

=Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. Simplicity is in the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God; purity unites with and enjoys Him.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honour.= _Hare._

=Purity of mind and conduct is the first glory of a woman.= _Mme. de Staël._

=Purpose barred, it follows, / Nothing is done to purpose.= _Coriolanus_, iii. 1.

=Purpose is what gives life a meaning.= _C. H._ 15 _Parkhurst._

=Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.= _Samuel Smiles._

=Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.= _Lord Brougham._

=Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.= _Ward Beecher._

=Put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.= _Bible._

=Put a stout heart to a stey= (steep) =brae.= _Sc._ 20 _Pr._

=Put a tongue / In every wound of Cæsar that should move / The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.

=Put a young healthy soul full of life under the teaching of the Graces, and the soul's body and workmanship will become transparent of the soul's self.= _Ed._

=Put armour on thine ears and on thine eyes.= _Timon of Athens_, iv. 3.

=Put money in thy purse.= _Othello_, i. 3.

=Put no trust in money; put your money in= 25 =trust.= _Amer. Pr._

=Put not all your crocks on one shelf.= _Sc. Pr._

=Put not all your eggs in one basket.= _Dut. Pr._

=Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men; for better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.= _Bible._

=Put the saddle on the right horse.= _Pr._

=Put your best foot foremost.= _Congreve._ 30

=Put your foot down where you mean to stand.= _Pr._

=Put your hand no farther than your sleeve will reach.= _Pr._

=Put your hand quickly to your hat and slowly to your purse, and you'll take no harm.= _Pr._

=Put your own shoulder to the wheel.= _Pr._

=Put your trust in God, and keep your powder= 35 =dry.= _Cromwell._

=Putting out the natural eye of one's mind to see better with a telescope.= _Carlyle._

Q.

=Qu'est ce donc que l'aristocratie? L'aristocratie! je vais vous le dire: l'aristocratie, c'est la ligue, la coalition de ceux qui veulent consommer sans produire, vivre sans travailler, occuper toutes les places sans être en état de les remplir, envahir tous les honneurs sans les avoir mérités: voilà l'aristocratie!=--What, then, is the aristocracy? The aristocracy, I mean to tell you, is the league, the combination of those who are bent on consuming without producing, living without working, occupying all public posts without being able to fill them, and usurping all honours without having earned them--that is the aristocracy. _Gen. Foy._

=Qu'est-ce que le Tiers-Etat. Rien! Que veut-il être? Tout=--What is the Third Estate? Nothing. What does it intend to be? Everything. _Abbé Sieyès._

=Qu'est-ce qu'un noble? Un homme qui s'est donné la peine de naître=--What is a nobleman? A man who has given himself the trouble of being born. _Beaumarchais._

=Qu'heureux est le mortel qui, du monde ignoré, /= 40 =Vit content de soi-même en un coin retiré!=--How happy the man who, unknown to the world, lives content with himself in some nook apart! _Boileau._

=Qu'il faut à chaque mois, / Du moins s'enyvre une fois=--We should get drunk at least once a month. _Old Fr. Pr._

=Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre=--Give me six lines written by the most honourable man alive, and I shall find matter therein to condemn him to the gallows. _Richelieu._

=Qu'on parle bien ou mal du fameux cardinal, / Ma prose ni mes vers n'en diront jamais rien; / Il m'a fait trop de bien pour en dire du mal, / Il m'a fait trop de mal pour en dire du bien=--Let the world speak well or ill of the famous cardinal, neither in my prose or verse will I mention his name; he has done me too much kindness to speak ill of him, and too much injury to speak well. _Corn. of Richelieu._

=Qu'un joueur est heureux! sa poche est un trésor! / Sous ses heureuses mains le cuivre devient or=--How happy is a gambler! His pocket is a treasure-store; in his lucky hands copper turns into gold. _Regnard._

=Qu'une nuit paraît longue à la douleur qui veille!=--What a long night that seems in which one is kept awake with pain. _Saurin._

=Qua vincit victos protegit ille manu=--With the same hand with which he conquers he protects the conquered. _Ovid._

=Quackery has no friend like gullibility.= _Pr._

=Quadrupedante putrem sonitu quatit ungula= 5 =campum=--The hoof, in its four-footed galloping, shakes the crumbling plain. _An onomatopoetic line from Virgil._

=Quæ amissa salva=--Things which have been lost are safe. _M._

=Quæ e longinquo magis placent=--Things please the more the farther fetched. _Pr._

=Quæ fuerant vitia mores sunt=--What were once vices are now the fashion of the day. _Sen._

=Quæ fuit durum pati / Meminisse dulce est=--What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember. _Sen._

=Quæ infra nos nihil ad nos=--The things that are 10 below us are nothing to us. _Pr._

=Quæ lucis miseris tam dira cupido?=--How is it that the wretched have such an infatuated longing for life (_lit._ the light)? _Virg._

=Quæ peccamus juvenes ea luimus senes=--We pay when old for the excesses of our youth. _Pr._

=Quæ regio in terris nostri non plena laboris?=--What region of the earth is not full of the story of our calamities? _Virg._

=Quæ sint, quæ fuerint, quæ mox ventura trahantur=--What is, what has been, and what shall in time be. _Virg._

=Quæ supra nos nihil ad nos=--Things which are 15 above us are nothing to us. _Pr._

=Quæ sursum volo videre=--I desire to see the things which are above. _M._

=Quæ te dementia cepit?=--What madness has seized you? _Virg._

=Quæ virtus et quanta, boni, sit vivere parvo!=--How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little! _Hor._

=Quæ volumus et credimus libenter, et quæ sentimus ipsi reliquos sentire putamus=--What we wish we readily believe, and what we think ourselves we imagine that others think also. _Cæs._

=Quæque ipse miserrima vidi et quorum pars= 20 =magna fui=--Unhappy scenes which I myself witnessed, and in which I acted a principal part. _Virg._

=Quære verum=--Seek the truth. _Pr._

=Quærenda pecunia primum, / Virtus post nummos=--Money must be sought for in the first instance; virtue after riches. _Hor._

=Quærens quem devoret=--Seeking some one to devour. _M._

=Quæstio vexata=--A vexed, _i.e._, much debated, question.

=Quævis terra alit artificem=--Every land supports 25 the artisan. _Pr._

=Qualem commendes etiam atque etiam aspice, ne mox / Incutiant aliena tibi peccata pudorem=--Study carefully the character of him you recommend, lest his misdeeds bring you shame. _Hor._

=Quales sunt summi civitatis viri talis est civitas=--A community is as those who rule it. _Cic._

=Qualis avis, talis cantus; qualis vir, talis oratio=--As is the bird, so is its song; as is the man, so is his manner of speech.

=Qualis rex, talis grex=--Like king, like people. _Pr._

=Qualis sit animus, ipse animus nescit=--What 30 the soul is, the soul itself knows not. _Cic._

=Qualis vita, finis ita=--As a man's life is, so is the end. _M._

=Quality is better than quantity.= _Pr._

=Quam continuis et quantis longa senectus / Plena malis!=--How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete. _Juv._

=Quam inique comparatum est, hi qui minus habent / Ut semper aliquid addant divitioribus!=--How unjust is the fate which ordains that those who have least should be always adding to the store of the more wealthy! _Ter._

=Quam magnum vectigal sit parsimonia!=--What 35 a wonderful revenue lies in thrift! _Cic._

=Quam parva sapientia regatur=--Think with how little wisdom the world is governed.

=Quam prope ad crimen sine crimine!=--How near to guilt a man may approach without being guilty!

=Quam temere in nosmet legem sancimus iniquam!=--How rashly do we sanction a rule to tell against ourselves! _Hor._

=Quam veterrimus homini optimus est amicus=--A man's oldest friend is his best. _Plaut._

=Quamvis digressu veteris confusus amici /= 40 =Laudo tamen=--Though distressed at the departure of my old friend, yet I commend him for going. _Juv._

=Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique=--When he to whom a man speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics. _Voltaire._

=Quand l'aveugle porte la bannière, mal pour ceux qui marchent derrière=--When the blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow. _Fr. Pr._

=Quand le peuple est en mouvement, on ne comprend pas par où le calme peut en y rentrer; et quand il est paisible, on ne voit pas par où le calme peut en sortir=--When the people are in agitation, we do not understand how tranquility is to return; and when they are at peace, we do not see how tranquility can depart. _La Bruyère._

=Quand les sauvages de la Louisiane veulent avoir du fruit, ils coupent l'arbre au pied et cueillent le fruit; voilà le gouvernement despotique=--When the savages of Louisiana want fruit, they cut down the tree by the root to obtain it. Such is despotic government. _Montesquieu._

=Quand les vices nous quittent, nous nous flattons= 45 =que c'est nous qui les quittons=--When vices forsake us, we flatter ourselves that it is we who forsake them. _Fr._

=Quand on a tout perdu, quand on n'a plus d'espoir, / La vie est une opprobre, et la mort un devoir=--When one has lost everything and has no more any hope, it is a disgrace to live and a duty to die. _Voltaire._

=Quand on est jeune, on se soigne pour plaire, et quand on est vieille, on se soigne pour ne pas déplaire=--When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

=Quand on est mort, c'est pour longtemps=--When one is dead, it is for a long while. _Fr. Pr._

=Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime, / Il faut aimer ce que l'on a=--When we have not what we like, we must like what we have. _Fr._

=Quand on ne trouve pas son repos en soi-même, il est inutile de le chercher ailleurs=--When we do not find repose in ourselves, it is in vain to look for it elsewhere. _Fr._

=Quand on se fait aimer, on n'est pas inutile=--They 5 are a useful people who have learnt how to please. _Ratisbonne._

=Quand on se fait entendre on parle toujours bien=--We always speak well when we manage to be understood. _Molière._

=Quand on voit le style naturel, on est tout étonné et ravi; car on s'attendait de voir un auteur, et on trouve un homme=--When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a man. _Pascal._

=Quand sur une personne on prétend se régler / C'est par les beaux côtés qu'il lui faut ressembler=--When we aspire to imitate any one, it is after his fine qualities we must fashion ourselves. _Molière._

=Quand tout le monde a tort, tout le monde a raison=--When all are wrong, every one is right. _La Chaussée._

=Quand une fois j'ai pris ma résolution, je vais= 10 =droit à mon but, et je renverse tout de ma soutane rouge=--When once I have taken my resolution, I go straight to my point, and overturn everything out of my way with my red cassock. _Fr._ (?)

=Quand une lecture vous élève l'esprit et qu'elle vous inspire des sentiments nobles et courageux, il est bon, et fait de main d'ouvrier=--When a work has an elevating effect on the mind, and inspires you with noble and courageous thoughts, it is good and is from the hand of a master. _La Bruyère._

=Quando Dios amanece, para todos amanece=--When God's light rises, it rises for all. _Sp. Pr._

=Quando el Español canta, ó rabia, ó no tiene blanca=--If a Spaniard sing, he's either mad or without money. _Sp. Pr._

=Quando i furbi vanno in processione, il diabolo porta la croce=--When rogues go in procession the devil carries the cross. _It. Pr._

=Quando non c'è, perde la chiesa=--When there 15 is nothing, the church is a loser. _It. Pr._

=Quando ullum inveniet parem?=--When shall we find his like again? _Hor._

=Quando vierás tu casa quemar llegate á escalentar=--When thou seest thy house in flames, go warm thyself by it. _Sp. Pr._

=Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus=--Even the worthy Homer nods sometimes. _Hor._

=Quanta est gula, quæ sibi totos / Ponit apros, animal propter convivia natum=--What a glutton is he who has whole boars served up for him, an animal created for banquets alone. _Juv._

=Quanti est sapere!=--What a grand thing it is to 20 be clever, or to have sense. _Ter._

=Quanto la cosa è più perfetta, / Più senta il bene e cosi la doglienza=--The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible of good and bad treatment. _Dante._

=Quanto piace al mondo è breve sogno=--All the pleasure of the world is only a short dream. _Petrarch._

=Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, / A Dis plura feret=--The more a man denies himself, the more will he receive from the gods. _Hor._

=Quantum=--Proper quantity or allowance (_lit._ how much).

=Quantum est in rebus inane!=--What emptiness 25 there is in human affairs! _Pers._

=Quantum meruit=--As much as he deserved. _L._

=Quantum mutatus ab illo=--How greatly changed from what he was! _Virg._

=Quantum nobis nostrisque hæc fabula de Christo profuerit notum est=--Every one knows what a godsend this story about Christ has been to us and our order. _Pope Leo X._

=Quantum quisque sua nummorum servat in arca / Tantum habet et fidei=--The credit of every man is in proportion to the number of coins he keeps in his chest. _Juv._

=Quantum sufficit=--As much as is sufficient. 30

=Quarrelling with occasion.= _Mer. of Venice_, iii. 5.

=Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.= _La Roche._

=Qué es la vida? Un frenesi. / Qué es la vida? Una ilusión. / Una sombra, una ficcion, / Y el mayor bien es pequeño; / Que toda la vida es sueño, / Y los sueños, sueños son!=--What is life? A conceit of the fancy. What is life? An illusion, / a shadow, a fiction, and the greatest earthly possession insignificant; the whole of life nothing but a dream, and dreams are shadows. _Calderon._

=Que j'aime la hardiesse anglaise! que j'aime les gens qui disent ce qu'ils pensent=--How I like the boldness of the English; how I like the people who say what they think! _Voltaire._

=Que la Suisse soit libre, et que nos noms périssent!=--Let 35 Switzerland be free and our names perish! _Lemierre._

=Que les gens de l'esprit sont bêtes=--What silly people wits are! _Beaumarchais._

=Que mon nom soit flétri=--(So be the cause triumphs) let my name be blighted. _Fr._

=Que votre âme et vos mœurs peintes dans vos ouvrages=--Let your mind and manners be painted in your works. _Fr._

=Que vouliez-vous qu'il fit contre trois?--Qu'il mourut!=--What would you have him do with three against him. I would have him die. _Corn._ (?)

=Quel che fa il pazzo all' ultimo, lo fa il savio= 40 =alla prima=--The wise man does that at first which the fool must do at last. _It. Pr._

=Quelqu'éclatante que soit une action, elle ne doit passer pour grande lorsqu'elle n'est pas l'effet d'un grand dessein=--An action should not be regarded as great, however brilliant it may be, if it is not the offspring of a great design. _La Roche._

=Quelque parti que je prenne je sais bien que je serai blâmé=--Whatever side I take, I know well that I shall be blamed. _Louis XIV._

=Quelque soin que l'on prenne de couvrir ses passions par des apparences de piété et l'honneur, elles paraissent toujours au travers de ces voiles=--Whatever care we take to conceal our passions by show of piety and honour, they always appear through these veils. _La Roche._

=Quelques crimes toujours précèdent les grands crimes=--Small crimes always precede great ones. _Racine._

=Quem di diligunt, adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit=--Whom the gods love dies young, while his strength and senses and faculties are in their full vigour. _Plaut._

=Quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius=--Him whom Jupiter wishes to ruin, he first infatuates. _Pr._

=Quem pœnitet peccasse pene est innocens=--He 5 who repents of having sinned is almost innocent. _Sen._

=Quem res plus nimio delectavere secundæ, / Mutatæ quatient=--The man whom prosperity too much delights will be most shocked by reverses. _Hor._

=Quem te Deus esse jussit=--What God bade you be. _M._

=Quemcunque miserum videris, hominem scias=--Whenever you behold a fellow-creature in distress, remember that he is a man. _Sen._

=Questi non hanno speranza di morte=--These have not the hope to die. _Dante._

=Questioning is not the mode of conversation= 10 =among gentlemen.= _Johnson._

=Quey= (female) =calfs are dear veal.= _Sc. Pr._

=Qui a bruit de se lever matin peut dormir jusqu'à diner=--He who has a name for rising in the morning may sleep till midday. _Fr. Pr._

=Qui a nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem=--He who would eat the kernel must first crack the shell. _Plaut._

=Qui a vécu un seul jour a vécu un siècle=--He who has lived a single day has lived an age. _La Bruyère._

=Qui a vu la cour, a vu du monde, ce qu'il y a= 15 =de plus beau, le plus spécieux, et le plus orné; qui méprise la cour après l'avoir vu méprise le monde=--He who has seen the court has seen all this most beautiful, most specious, and best decorated in the world; and he who despises the court after having seen it despises the world. _La Bruyère._

=Qui aime bien, châtie bien=--Who loves well, chastises well. _Fr. Pr._

=Qui alterum incusat probri eum ipsum se intueri oportet=--He who accuses another of improper conduct ought to look to himself. _Plaut._

=Qui aura esté une fois bien fol ne sera nulle autre fois bien sage=--He who has once been very foolish will never be very wise. _Montaigne._

=Qui bene conjiciet, hunc vatem perhibeto optimum=--Hold him the best prophet who forms the best conjectures.

=Qui bene imperat, paruerit aliquando necesse= 20 =est=--He who is good at commanding must have some time been good at obeying. _Cic._

=Qui brille au second rang s'éclipse au premier=--He who shines in the second rank is eclipsed in the first. _Fr. Pr._

=Qui capit ille facit=--He who takes it to himself has done it. _Pr._

=Qui commence et ne parfait, sa peine perd=--He who begins and does not finish loses his pains. _Fr. Pr._

=Qui conducit=--He who leads. _M._

=Qui craindra la mort n'entreprendra rien sur= 25 =moi: qui méprisera la vie sera toujours maître de la mienne=--He who fears death will never take any advantage of me; but he who despises life will ever be master of mine. _Henry IV. of France._

=Qui craint de souffrir, souffre de crainte=--He who fears to suffer suffers from fear. _Fr. Pr._

=Qui de contemnenda gloria libros scribunt, nomen suum inscribunt=--Those who write books on despising fame inscribe their own name on the title-page.

=Qui dedit hoc hodie, cras, si volet, auferet=--He who has given to-day may, if he so please, take away to-morrow. _Hor._

=Qui est maître de sa soif est maître de sa santé=--He who has the mastery of his thirst has the mastery of his health. _Fr. Pr._

=Qui est plus esclave qu'un courtisan assidu si= 30 =ce n'est un courtisan plus assidu?=--Who is more of a slave than an assiduous courtier, unless it be another courtier who is more assiduous still? _La Bruyère._

=Qui facit per alium facit per se=--He who does a thing by another does it himself. _Coke._

=Qui fingit sacros auro vel marmore vultus, / Non facit ille deos: qui rogat, ille facit=--He does not make gods who fashions sacred images of gold or marble: he makes them such who prays to them. _Mart._

=Qui fit, Mæcenas, ut nemo, quam sibi sortem / Seu ratio dederit, seu fors objecerit, illa / Contentus vivat; laudet diversa sequentes?=--How happens it, Mæcenas, that no one lives content with the lot which either reason has chosen for him or chance thrown in his way; but that he praises the fortune of those who follow other pursuits? _Hor._

=Qui genus jactat suum aliena laudat=--He who boasts of his descent boasts of what he owes to others. _Sen._

=Qui homo mature quæsivit pecuniam, / Nisi= 35 =eam mature parcit, mature esurit=--He who has acquired wealth in time, unless he saves it in time, will in time come to starvation. _Plaut._

=Qui invidet minor est=--He who envies another is his inferior. _M._

=Qui jacet in terra non habet unde cadat=--Who lies upon the ground cannot fall. _Alain de Lille._

=Qui jeune n'apprend, vieux ne saura=--He will not know when he is old who learns not when he is young.

=Qui jure suo utitur, neminem lædit=--He who enjoys his own right injures no man. _L._

=Qui legitis flores et humi nascentia fragra, /= 40 =Frigidus, O pueri fugite hinc, latet anguis in herba=--Ye youths that pluck flowers and strawberries on the ground, flee hence; a cold clammy snake lurks in the grass. _Virg._

=Qui mange du pape, en meurt=--Who eats what comes from the pope dies of it.

=Qui medice vivit, misere vivit=--He who lives by medical prescription lives miserably. _Pr._

=Qui mentiri aut fallere insuevit patrem, / Tanto magis is audebit cæteros=--He who has made it a practice to lie to or deceive his father, the more daring will he be in deceiving others. _Ter._

=Qui mores hominum multorum vidit et urbes=--He who saw the manners of many men and cities. _Hor., of Ulysses._

=Qui n'a, ne peut=--He who has not cannot. _Fr. Pr._

=Qui n'a pas l'esprit de son âge / De son âge a tout le malheur=--He who has not the spirit of his time has all the misery of it. _Voltaire._

=Qui n'a plus qu'un moment à vivre / N'a plus rien à dissimuler=--He who has only a moment to live has no more reason to dissemble. _Quinault._

=Qui n'a point d'amour n'a pas de beaux jours=--He who knows not love has no happy days. _Fr._

=Qui n'a point de sens à trente ans n'en aura= 5 =jamais=--He who has not sense at thirty will never have any. _Fr. Pr._

=Qui n'a rien, ne craint rien=--He who has nought fears nought. _Fr. Pr._

=Qui ne craint point la mort ne craint point les menaces=--He who fears not death cares not for threats. _Corn._

=Qui ne sait obéir, ne sait commander=--Who knows not how to obey knows not how to command. _Fr. Pr._

=Qui ne sait pas, trouvera à apprendre=--He that does not know will find ways and means to learn. _Fr. Pr._

=Qui ne sait se borner, ne sut jamais écrire=--He 10 who cannot limit himself will never know how to write. _Boileau._

=Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare=--He who knows not how to dissemble knows not how to rule. _Louis XI._

=Qui nescit dissimulare nescit vivere=--He who knows not how to dissemble, knows not how to live.

=Qui nil molitur inepte=--One who never makes any unsuccessful effort. _Hor._

=Qui nil potest sperare, desperet nihil=--Who can hope for nothing should despair of nothing. _Sen._

=Qui nolet fieri desidiosus, amet=--If any man wish 15 to be idle, let him fall in love. _Ovid._

=Qui non est hodie, cras minus aptus erit=--He who is not prepared to-day will be less ready to-morrow. _Ovid._

=Qui non laborat, non manducet=--If any does not work, he shall not eat. _Vulgate._

=Qui non moderabitur iræ / Infectum volet esse, dolor quod suaserit et mens=--He who does not restrain his anger will wish that undone which his irritation and temper prompted him to. _Hor._

=Qui non proficit, deficit=--He who does not advance loses ground. _Pr._

=Qui non prohibet quod prohibere potest assentire= 20 =videtur=--He who does not prevent what he can prevent is held to consent. _L._

=Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum, / Illuc unde negant redire quenquam=--Who now is travelling along the darksome walk to the spot from which, they say, no one ever returns. _Cat._

=Qui parcit virgæ odit filium=--He that spareth his rod hates the child. _M._

=Qui pardonne aisément invite à l'offenser=--He who easily forgives invites offences. _Corn._

=Qui patitur vincit=--He who endures conquers. _M._

=Qui peccat ebrius luat sobrius=--He that commits 25 an offence when drunk shall pay for it when he is sober. _L._

=Qui perd péche=--He who loses sins. _Pr._

=Qui pense=--He who thinks. _M._

=Qui peut ce qui lui plait, commande alors qu'il prie=--He who can do what he pleases, commands when he entreats. _Corn._

=Qui porte épée porte paix=--He who bears the sword bears peace. _Fr. Pr._

=Qui prête à l'ami perd au double=--He who lends 30 money to a friend loses doubly. _Fr. Pr._

=Qui pro quo=--Who for whom; one instead of another.

=Qui proficit in literis et deficit in moribus, plus deficit quam proficit=--He who is proficient in learning and deficient in morals is more deficient than proficient. _Anon._