Chapter 17 Flashcards
Salve, bone amice, cui filium meum heri commisi.
Greetings, my good friend, to whom I entrusted my son yesterday.
Dionysius, de quo ante dixi, a Graecia ad Siciliam per tempestatem brevem sed potentem navigabat.
Dionysius, about whom I spoke earlier, was sailing from Greece to Sicily through the brief but powerful storm.
Multi cives aut ea pericula quae imminent non vident aut ea quae vident neglegunt.
Many citizens either do not see those dangers which are threatening or they ignore those that they do see.
Bis dat qui cito dat.
He who gives quickly, gives twice.
Qui coepit, dimidium facti habet. Incipe!
He who has begun has half of the deed. Begin!
Levis est fortuna: id cito reposcit quod dedit.
Fickle is fortune: it quickly demands back that which it has given.
Fortuna eum stultum facit quem nimium amat.
Fortune makes him a fool whom it favours too much.
Non solum fortuna ipsa est caeca sed etiam eos caecos facit quos semper adiuvat.
Non only is fortune itself blind, but it even makes blind those whom it always helps.
Bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria.
He who conquers himself in victory conquers twice.
Simulatio delet veritatem, sine qua nomen amicitiae valere non potest.
Pretense obliterates the truth, without which the name of friendship cannot survive.
Virtutem enim illius viri amavi, quae cum corpore non periit.
Truly, I admired that man’s virtue, which did not perish along with his body.
Turbam vita. Cum his vive qui te meliorem facere possunt; illos admitte quos tu potes facere meliores.
Avoid the rabble. Live with these men who can make you better; admit those whom you can make better.
