Latin
Quotations Q

 

Quae sit sapientia, disce legendo
What wisdom may be, find out by reading
Cato, Last line of Preface to Distichs II
motto of the Waseda University Library

Quam angusta innocentia est, at legem bonum esse
What a narrow innocence it is, to be good only according to the law
Seneca, De Ira 2:27

Quamquam ridentem dicere verum / quid vetat
What prevents one from teaching some truth with a bit of a smile?
Horace, Satires 1/1:24
justifying his mode of teaching by satire; compare previous

Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit / a dis plura feret
The more we deny ourselves, the more will be supplied by the gods
Horace, Carmina 3/16:21

Quem si diligunt / adulescens moritur
Whom [the gods] care for, dies young
Plautus, Bacchides 816

Qui desiderat pacem, preparet bellum
Let him who wishes peace prepare for war
Vegetius, Epitoma Rei Militaris, Prologium 3
see an alternate version at Si vis

Qui spatium vitae extremum inter munera ponat Naturae
Who count the last span of life among the gifts of Nature
Juvenal, Satires 10:358
and not, adds Francis Bacon, merely as fearful; see TAPA 57/181f

Qui timide rogat, docet negare
He who asks timidly, invites refusal
Seneca, Phaedra (also called Hippolytus) 2:593-594

Quicquid agunt homines nostri farrago libelli
Whatever things men have done . . . shall form the subject of our book
Juvenal, Satires 1/1:85-86, as Quidquid agunt homines . . nostri farrago libelli est
used as a motto for the first forty issues of The Tatler, 1704
cited by William Hazlitt in his Essay on the Periodical Essayists, 1815
Quidquid agunt homines was the motto of the British Historical Association, founded 1906
compare quidquid agant homines, below

Quid rides?
What are you laughing at?
Horace, Satires 1/1:69
followed by an explanation, see at Mutato

Quid sit pulchrum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non
What is admirable, what base; what is useful, what not
Horace, Epistle 1/2:3
cited by William Hazlitt in his Essay on the Periodical Essayists

Quidquid agant homines, intentio iudicat omnes
Whatever men have done, their intention shall judge
Legal maxim, of uncertain origin
compare quicquid agunt homines, above

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
Who will watch the watchers themselves?
Juvenal, Satires 6:347
refers to guarding a wife; in original context, prefixed by sed "but"

Quod erat demonstrandum
Which is what we were trying to prove [announcing the end of an argument]

Quod petis hic est
What you seek is here [and not in frantic travel]
Horace, Epistles 1/11:29
concluding the sermon; see earlier at Caelum

Quod vides perisse perditum ducas
"[And] what you see is lost, set down as lost"
Catullus 8:2
for the preceding phrase, see at Desinas

Quos laeserunt et oderunt
Those whom they have injured, they also hate
Seneca, De Ira 2:33
see also the saying of Tacitus at Proprium

Quot homines, tot sententiae
As many opinions as there are men
Terence, Phormio 454 (or 2/13:14)

 

 

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