DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS. (continued 13)

J'ai graissé la patte au concierge—I have tipped the door-keeper (lit. greased his paw). Fr. Pr.

J'ai ris, me voilà désarmé—I was set a-laughing, and lo! I was at once disarmed. Piron.

J'ai toujours vu que, pour réussir dans le 35 monde, il fallait avoir l'air fou et être sage—I have always observed that to succeed in the world a man must seem simple but be wise. Montesquieu.

J'ai trouvé chaussure à mon pied—I have found a good berth (lit. shoes for my feet). Fr. Pr.

J'ai vécu—I existed through it all (the Reign of Terror). Siéyès.

J'ai voulu voir, j'ai vu—I wish to see, and have seen. Racine.

J'aime mieux ma mie—I love my lass better. A French Old Song.

J'appelle un chat un chat, et Rolet un fripon—I 40 call a cat a cat, and Rolet a knave. Boileau.

J'embrasse mon rival, mais c'est pour l'étouffer—I press my rival to my heart, but it is to smother him. Corneille.

J'en passe et des meilleurs—I pass by them, and better than they. Victor Hugo.

J'étais poète, historien, / Et maintenant je ne suis rien—I was once a poet and a historian, and now I am nothing. Boudier, for his epitaph.

J'étais pour Ovide à quinze ans, / Mais je suis pour Horace à trente—I was for Ovid at fifteen, but I am for Horace at thirty. Ducerceau.

J'évite d'être long, et je deviens obscur—In 45 avoiding to be diffuse, I become obscure. Boileau, after Horace.

J'y suis, et j'y reste—Here I am, and here I remain. MacMahon in the trenches before the Malakoff.

Ja, das Gold ist nur Chimäre—Yes, gold is but a chimæra. Scribe-Meyerbeer.

Ja, der Krieg verschlingt die Besten!—Yes, war swallows up the best people! Schiller.

Ja, grosse Männer werden stets verfolgt, / Und kommen immer in Verlegenheiten—Yes, great men are always subject to persecution, and always getting into straits. Schiller.

Ja, so schätzt der Mensch das Leben, als 50 heiliges Kleinod, / Dass er jenen am meisten verehrt, der es trotzig verschmähet—Yes, man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it. Platen.

Jacet ecce Tibullus, / Vix manet e toto parva quod urna capit—See, here Tibullus lies; of all that he was there hardly remains enough to fill a little urn. Ovid.

Jack at a pinch. Pr.

Jack is as good as Jill. Pr.

Jack-o'-both sides is, before long, trusted by nobody, and abused by both parties. Pr.

Jack of all trades and master of none. Pr.

Jack shall pipe and Jill shall dance. G. 5 Wither.

Jack will never be a gentleman. Pr.

Jack's as good as his master. Pr.

Jacta alea est—The die is cast. Cæsar, when he passed the Rubicon.

Jactitatio—A boasting. Jactitation of marriage is cognizable in the Ecclesiastical Courts. L.

Jam nunc minaci murmure cornuum / Perstringis 10 aures; jam litui strepunt—Even now you stun our ears with the threatening murmur of horns; already I hear the clarions sound. Hor.

Jam pauca aratro jugera regiæ / Moles relinquent—Soon will regal piles leave but few acres to the plough. Hor.

Jam portum inveni, Spes et Fortuna valete! / Nil mihi vobiscum est, ludite nunc alios—Now I have gained the port, hope and fortune, farewell! I have nothing more to do with you; go now and make sport of others. A Greek epitaph.

Jam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna—Now the Virgin goddess of justice returns; now the reign of Saturn and age of gold returns. Virg.

Jam seges est ubi Troja fuit, resecandaque falce / Luxuriat Phrygio sanguine pinguis humus—New fields of corn wave where Troy once stood, and the ground enriched with Trojan blood is luxuriant with grain ready for the sickle. Ovid.

Jam summa procul villarum culmina fumant—Now 15 the high tops of the far-off villas send forth their smoke. Virg.

Jamais abattu—Never cast down. M.

Jamais arrière—Never behind. M.

Jamais l'innocence et le mystère n'habitèrent long tems ensemble—Innocence and mystery never dwelt any length of time together. Fr.

Jamais la cornemuse ne dit mot si elle n'a le ventre plein—The bagpipe never utters a word till its belly is full. Fr. Pr.

Jamais long nez n'a gâté beau visage—A big 20 nose never disfigured a handsome face, i.e., it is disfigured already. Fr. Pr.

Jamais nous ne goûtons de parfaite allégresse; / Nos plus heureux succès sont mêlés de tristesse—We never taste happiness in perfection; our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. Corneille.

Jamais on ne vaincra les Romains que dans Rome—The Romans will never be conquered except in Rome. Fr.

Jamque opus exegi, quod nec Jovis ira, nec ignis, / Nec poterit ferrum, nec edax abolere vetustas—And now I have completed what neither the wrath of Jove, nor fire, nor the sword, nor the corroding tooth of time will be able to destroy. Ovid.

Januæ mentis—Inlets of knowledge (lit. gates of the mind).

Januis clausis—With closed doors. 25

Jardin des plantes—A botanical garden. Fr.

Jasper fert myrrham, thus Melchior, Balthazar aurum. / Hæc quicum secum portet tria nomina regum, / Solvitur a morbo, Domini pietate, caduco—Jasper brings myrrh, Melchior frankincense, and Balthazar gold. Whoever carries with him the names of these three kings (the three kings of Cologne, the Magi) will, by the grace of God, be exempt from the falling sickness. A Mediæval charm.

Je allseitiger, je individueller—The more universal a man is, the greater he is as an individual. Mme. Varnhagen von Ense.

Je cognois tout, fors que moy-mesme—I know everything except myself. Old Fr.

Je crains Dieu, cher Abner, et n'ai pas d'autre 30 crainte—I fear God, Abner, and have no other fear. Racine.

Je crains l'homme d'un seul livre—I am afraid of the man of one book. Thomas Aquinas.

Je fetter der Floh, je magerer der Hund—The fatter the flea, the leaner the dog. Ger. Pr.

Je jouis des ouvrages qui surpassent les miens—I enjoy works which surpass my own. La Harpe.

Je laisse à penser la vie / Que firent ces deux amis—I leave you to imagine the festive time these two friends (the town mouse and the country mouse) had of it. La Fontaine.

Je le tiens—I hold it. M. 35

Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-être; tirez le rideau, la farce est jouée—I am going in quest of a great perhaps; let the curtain drop, the farce is played out. Rabelais, on his deathbed.

Je m'en vais voir le soleil pour la dernière fois!—I shall see the sun for the last time. Rousseau's last words.

Je m'estonne fort pourquoy / La mort osa songer a moy / Qui ne songeais jamais à elle—I wonder greatly why death should condescend to think of me, who never thought of her. Regnier.

Je maintiendrai le droit—I will maintain the right. M.

Je me fie en Dieu—I put my trust in God. M. 40

Je mehr der Brunnen gebraucht wird, desto mehr giebt er Wasser—The more the well is used, the more water it gives. Ger. Pr.

Je mehr Gesetze, je weniger Recht—The more laws, the less justice. Ger. Pr.

Je mehr man das Ich versteckt, je mehr Welt hat man—The more we merge our I, the larger is our world. Hippel.

Je mets en fait que, si tous les hommes savaient ce qu'ils disent les uns des autres, il n'y aurait pas quatre amis dans le monde—I lay it down as beyond dispute that if every one knew what every one said of another, there would not be four friends in the world. Pascal.

Je minder sich der Kluge selbst gefällt, / Um 45 desto mehr schätzt ihn die Welt—The less the sage pleases himself, the more the world esteems him. Gellert.

Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte—I have made this (letter) a rather long one, only because I had not the leisure to make it shorter. Pascal.

Je n'ai mérité / Ni cet excès d'honneur ni cette indignité—I have deserved neither so much honour nor such disgrace. Corneille.

Je n'ai point d'ennemis que ceux de l'état—I have no enemies whatever but those of the state. Richelieu to his confessor on his death-bed.

Je n'oublierai jamais—I will never forget. M.

Je ne change qu'en mourant—I change only when I die. M.

Je ne changerois pas mon répos pour tous les trésors du monde—I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.

Je ne cherche qu'un—I seek but one. M. 5

Je ne connais que trois moyens d'exister dans la société: être ou voleur, ou mendiant, ou salarié—I know only three means of subsisting in society: by stealing, begging, or receiving a salary. Mirabeau, to the Clergy.

Je ne puis pas me refondre—I cannot change my opinion or purpose (lit. recast myself). Fr.

Je ne sais quoi—I know not what. Fr.

Je pense—I think. M.

Je pense plus—I think more. M. 10

Je plie et ne romps pas—I bend, but don't break. La Font.

Je prends mon bien où je le trouve—I take my own where I find it. Molière.

Je sais à mon pot comment les autres bouillent—I can tell by my own pot how others boil. Fr. Pr.

Je schöner die Wirthin, je schwerer die Zeche—The fairer the hostess the heavier the bill. Ger. Pr.

Je sens qu'il y a un Dieu, et je ne sens pas 15 qu'il n'y en ait point; cela me suffit—I feel there is a God, and I don't feel there is none; that is enough for me. La Bruyère.

Je suis assez semblable aux girouettes, qui ne se fixent que quand elles sont rouillées—I am like enough to the weathercocks, which don't veer only when they become rusty. Voltaire.

Je suis oiseau, voyez mes ailes! / Je suis souris; vivent les rats—I am a bird, see my wing! I am a mouse; long live the rats. La Fontaine.

Je suis prêt—I am ready. M.

Je suis riche des biens dont je sais me passer—I am rich in the goods that I can do without. Vigée.

Je t'aime d'autant plus que je t'estime moins—I 20 love you all the more the less I esteem you. Collé Cocatrix.

Je veux de bonne guerre—I am for fairplay in war. M.

Je veux le droit—I mean to have my right. M.

Je veux que, le dimanche, chaque paysan ait sa poule au pot—It is my wish that every peasant may have a fowl in his pot on Sundays. Henry IV. of France.

Je vis en espoir—I live in hope. M.

Je vois, je sais, je crois, je suis désabusé—I 25 see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived. Corneille.

Je voudrais voir un homme sobre, modéré. chaste, équitable prononcer qu'il n'y-a point de Dieu; il parlerait du moins sans intérêt; mais cet homme ne se trouve point—I should like to see a man who is sober, moderate, chaste and just assert that there is no God; he would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a man is not to be found. La Bruyère.

Je vous apprendrai à vivre—I will teach you better manners (lit. to live). Fr. Pr.

Je vous ferai voir de quel bois je me chauffe—I will let you see what metal I am made of (lit. with what wood I heat myself). Fr. Pr.

Je weniger die Worte, je besser Gebet—The fewer the words, the better the prayer. Ger. Pr.

Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, / 30 Seeking the bubble reputation / Even in the cannon's mouth. As You Like It, ii. 7.

Jealousy dislikes the world to know it. Byron.

Jealousy / Hath in it an alchemic force to fuse / Almost into one metal love and hate. Tennyson.

Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence. Hume.

Jealousy is always born with love, but it does not always die with it. La Roche.

Jealousy is cruel as the grave; the coals 35 thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Bible.

Jealousy is love's bed of burning snarl. George Meredith.

Jealousy is often the helpmate of sweet love. Kingsley.

Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and sometimes its awakener. F. Marion Crawford.

Jealousy is the rage of a man. Bible.

Jealousy is the sister of love, as the devil is 40 the brother of the angel. Weber.

Jealousy: / It is the green-eyed monster that doth mock / The meat it feeds on. Othello, iii. 2.

Jealousy lives upon doubts; it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. La Roche.

Jean a étudié pour être bête—John has been to college to learn to be a fool. Fr. Pr.

Jean s'en alla comme il était venu—John went away as he came. La Fontaine's epitaph, written by himself.

Jeddart justice: First hang a man, and syne 45 (then) try him. Sc. Pr.

Jede grosse Zeit erfasst den ganzen Menschen—Every great epoch seizes possession of the whole man. Mommsen.

Jede Macht, welche wir über andere Gegenstände ausüben, hängt von der Macht ab, die wir über uns selbst besitzen—All the power which we, in every case, exercise over other objects depends on the power we have over ourselves. Cötvös.

Jede That der Weltgeschichte / Zeugt auch wieder eine That—Every deed in the history of the world begets another deed in turn. Arnold Schlönbach.

Jede Unthat, / Trägt ihren eignen Racheengel schon, / Die böse Hoffnung unter ihrem Herzen—Every evil deed already bears its own avenging angel, the dread of evil, in the heart of it. Schiller.

Jedem das Seine ist nicht zu viel—To no one is 50 his own too much. Ger. Pr.

Jedem redlichen Bemühn / Sel Beharrlichkeit verliehn.—Be perseverance vouchsafed to every honest endeavour. Goethe.

Jeden anderen Meister erkennt man an dem, was er ausspricht; was er weiss, verschweigt, zeigt mir den Meister des Styls—Every other master may be known by what he expresses; what he wisely suppresses reveals to me the master of style. Schiller.

Jeder ausserordentliche Mensch hat eine gewisse Sendung, die er zu vollführen berufen ist—Every man above the ordinary has a certain mission which he is called to fulfil. Goethe.

Jeder freut sich seiner Stelle, / Bietet dem Verächter Trutz—Every one is proud of his office, and bids defiance to the scorner. Schiller.

Jeder gilt so viel als er hat—Every one is worth as much as he has. Ger. Pr.

Jeder ist seiner Worte bester Ausleger—Every one is the best interpreter of his own words. Ger. Pr.

Jeder Jüngling sehnt sich so zu lieben. / Jedes 5 Mädchen so geliebt zu sein: / Ach, der heiligste von unsern Trieben / Warum quillt aus ihm die grimme Pein?—The youth longs so to love, the maiden so to be loved; ah! why does there spring out of this holiest of all our instincts such agonising pain? Goethe.

Jeder Krämer lobt seine Ware—Every dealer cracks up his wares. Ger. Pr.

Jeder Mensch muss nach seiner Weise denken: denn er findet auf seinem Wege immer ein Wahres, oder eine Art von Wahrem, die ihm durchs Leben hilft; nur darf er sich nicht gehen lassen; er muss sich controliren; der blosse nackte Instinct geziemt nicht dem Menschen—Every man must think in his own way; for on his own pathway he always finds a truth, or a measure of truth, which is helpful to him in his life; only he must not follow his own bent without restraint; he must control himself; to follow mere naked instinct does not beseem a man. Goethe.

Jeder Morgen ruft zu, das Gehörige zu thun, und das Mögliche zu erwarten—We are summoned every morning to do what it requires of us, and to expect what it may bring. Goethe.

Jeder muss der Natur seine Schuld bezahlen—Every one must pay his debt to Nature. Ger. Pr.

Jeder muss ein Paar Narrenschuhe zerreissen, 10 zerreisst er nicht mehr—Every one must wear out one pair of fool's shoes, if he wear out no more. Ger. Pr.

Jeder, sieht man ihn einzeln, ist leidlich klug und verständig; / Sind sie in corpori, gleich wird euch ein Dummkopf daraus—Every man, as we see him singly, is tolerably wise and intelligent; but see him in a corporate capacity, and you think him a born blockhead and fool. Schiller.

Jeder stirbt / Und sterben ist die grösste That für jedem—Every one dies, and for every one to die is his greatest act. L. Schefer.

Jeder Tag hat seine Plage / Und die Nacht hat ihre Lust—Every day has its torment, and the night has its pleasure. Philina, in Goethe.

Jeder Weg zum rechten Zwecke / Ist auch recht in jeder Strecke—Every road to the right end is also right in every stretch (step or turn) of it. Goethe.

Jeder Zustand, ja jeder Augenblick, ist von 15 unendlichem Werth, denn er ist der Repräsentant einer ganzen Ewigkeit—Every condition, nay, every moment, is of infinite value, for it is the representative of a whole eternity. Goethe.

Jedes ausgesprochene Wort erregt den Eigensinn—Every uttered (lit. outspoken) word rouses our self-will. Goethe.

Jedes Weib will lieber schön als fromm sein—Every woman would rather be handsome than pious. Ger. Pr.

Jedes Weibes / Fehler ist des Mannes Schuld—The husband is to blame for the fault of the wife (in every case). Herder.

Jedwede Tugend / Ist fleckenrein bis auf den Augenblick / Der Probe—Every virtue is stainless up to the moment of trial. Schiller.

Jedwede Zeit hat ihre Wehen—Every time has 20 its sorrows. Freiligrath.

Jedweder ist des dunkeln Schicksals Knecht—Every one is dark fate's thrall. Schillerbuch.

Jeer not others upon any occasion. South.

Jeerers must be content to taste of their own broth. Pr.

Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit—The hungry stomach rarely scorns plain fare. Hor.

Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked. Bible. 25

Jess would have been an omnivorous reader of books had it not been her conviction that reading was idling. George Eliot.

Jest not with the eye, nor religion. Pr.

Jest so that it may not become earnest. Sp. Pr.

Jest with an ass, and he will flap you in the face with his tail. Pr.

Jest with your equals. Dan. Pr. 30

Jesters do oft prove prophets. King Lear, v. 3.

Jesting brings serious sorrows. Pr.

Jesting lies bring serious sorrows. Pr.

Jesting Pilate, asking, "What is truth?" had not the smallest chance to ascertain it. He could not have known it had a god shown it to him. Carlyle.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. 35 He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, He lived in it, and had His being there. Emerson.

Jesus hominum salvator—Jesus the Saviour of men. M.

Jesus of Nazareth, and the life He lived and the death He died;—through this, as through a miraculous window, the heaven of Martyr Heroism, the "divine depths of sorrow," of noble labour, and the unspeakable silent expanses of eternity, first in man's history disclose themselves. Carlyle.

Jesus of Nazareth was not poor, though He had not where to lay His head. (?)

Jesus speaks always from within, and in a degree that transcends all others. In that is the miracle. Emerson.

Jet d'eau—A jet of water. Fr. 40

Jeter le manche après la cognée—To throw the helve after the hatchet. Fr. Pr.

Jetzt giebt es keine Riesen mehr; Gewalt / Ist für den Schwachen jederzeit ein Riese—There are no more any giants now; for the weak, force is a giant at all times. Schiller.

Jeu d'enfant—Child's play. Fr.

Jeu de hazard—Game of chance. Fr.

Jeu de mains, jeu de vilain—Horse-play, or 45 practical joking, is vulgar. Fr.

Jeu de mots—Quibble; pun. Fr.

Jeu de theâtre—Stage-trick; clap-trap. Fr.

Jeune chirurgien, vieux médécin—A surgeon (should be) young, a physician old. Fr. Pr.

Jeune, et dans l'âge heureux qui méconnait la crainte—Young, and at that happy age which knows no fear. Fr.

Jeune, on conserve pour sa vieillesse; vieux, on épargne pour la mort—In youth men save for old age; in old age, they hoard for death. La Bruyère.

Jewels five words long, / That on the stretch'd forefinger of all time / Sparkle for ever. Tennyson.

Jo ædlere Blod, jo mindre Hovmod—The nobler the blood, the less the pride. Dan. Pr.

Jo argere Skalk, je bedre Lykke—The greater 5 knave, the better luck. Dan. Pr.

Jo mere af Lov, jo mindre af Ret—The more by law, the less by right. Dan. Pr.

Joan is as good as my lady in the dark. Pr.

John Gilpin kiss'd his loving wife; / O'erjoy'd was he to find / That, though on pleasure she was bent, / She had a frugal mind. Cowper.

Johnsons are rare; yet, Boswells are perhaps still rarer. Carlyle.

Join hands with God to make a man to live. 10 George Herbert.

Joindre les mains, c'est bien; les ouvrir, c'est mieux—To fold the hands (in prayer) is well; to open them (in charity) is better. Fr. Pr.

Joke at your leisure; ye kenna wha may jibe yoursel'. Sc. Pr.

Joke with a slave, and he'll soon show his heels. Ar. Pr.

Jong rijs is te buigen, maar geen oude boomen—Young twigs will bend, but not old trees. Dut. Pr.

Jonge lui, domme lui; oude lui, koude lui—Young 15 folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk. Dut. Pr.

Jouk and let the jaw (or jaup) gae by, i.e., duck and let the dash of dirty water pass over you. Sc. Pr.

Jour de fête—Holiday. Fr.

Jour de ma vie—The day of my life. M.

Jour gras—Flesh day. Fr.

Jour maigre—Fish day. Fr. 20

Journal pour rire—Comic journal. Fr.

Journalists are like little dogs; whenever anything stirs they immediately begin to bark. Schopenhauer.

Journeys end in lovers' meeting, / Every wise man's son doth know. Twelfth Night, ii. 3.

Jove tonante cum populo agi non est fas—When Jove thunders there must be no parleying with the people. Cic.

Jovis omnia plena—All things are full of Jove, 25 i.e., of the deity. Virg.

Joy? a moon by fits reflected in a swamp or watery bog. Wordsworth.

Joy and grief are never far apart. Willmott.

Joy and sorrow / Are to-day and to-morrow. Pr.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. Jean Paul.

Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs 30 men of reason. Platen.

Joy, in a changeable subject, must necessarily change as the subject changeth. S. Bern.

Joy is a guest who generally comes uninvited. Schopenhauer.

Joy is a sunbeam between two clouds. Mme. Deluzy.

Joy is as a raiment fine, / Spun of magic threads divine; / Which as you are in act to don, / The wearer and the robe are gone. Sophocles.

Joy is buyable—by forsaking all that a man 35 hath. Ruskin.

Joy is like the ague; one good day between two bad ones. Dan. Pr.

Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine. Ward Beecher.

Joy is the best of wine. George Eliot.

Joy is the mainspring in the whole round of universal Nature; joy moves the wheels of the great timepiece of the world; she it is that loosens flowers from their buds, suns from their firmaments, rolling spheres in distant space not seen by the glass of the astronomer. Schiller.

Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. 40 Coleridge.

Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate. Horace Greely.

Joy must have sorrow; sorrow, joy. Goethe.

Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery. Suckling.

Joy ruled the day and love the night. Dryden.

Joy shared is joy doubled. Goethe. 45

Joy surfeited turns to sorrow. Pr.

Joy wholly from without is false, precarious and short. Joy from within is like smelling the rose on the tree; it is more sweet, and fair, and lasting. Young.

Joy's a subtle elf; / I think man's happiest when he forgets himself. Cyril Tourneur.

Joys are for the gods; / Man's common course of nature is distress; / His joys are prodigies; and like them too, / Portend approaching ill. The wise man starts / And trembles at the perils of a bliss. Young.

Joys are our wings, sorrows are our spurs. 50 Jean Paul.

Joys carried too far change into sorrows. Justin Bertuch.

Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is a sorrow still. Byron.

Joys shared with others are more enjoyed. Pr.

Joys, tender and true, / Yet all with wings. Proctor.

Joyful to live, yet not afraid to die. Prior. 55

Joyfulness (Freudigkeit) is the mother of all virtues. Goethe.

Jubilate Deo—Be joyful in the Lord.

Jucunda est memoria præteritorum malorum—The recollection of past miseries is pleasant. Cic.

Jucunda et idonea dicere vitæ—To describe what is pleasant and suited for life. Hor.

Jucunda rerum vicissitudo—A delightful change 60 of circumstances.

Jucundi acti labores—It is pleasant to think of labours that are past. Cic.

Jucundum et carum sterilis facit uxor amicum—A wife who has no children makes (to her husband's heirs) a dear and engaging friend. Juv.

Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur—The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted. Pub. Syr.

Judex non potest esse testis in propria causa—A judge cannot be a witness in his own cause. Coke.

Judge before friendship, then confide till death, / Well for thy friend, but nobler far for thee. Young.

Judge me, ye powers; let fortune tempt or frown, I am prepared; my honour is my own. Lansdowne.

Judge not according to the appearance, but 5 judge righteous judgment. Jesus.

Judge not of men and things at first sight. Pr.

Judge not, that ye be not judged. Jesus.

Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, / But trust Him for His grace. Cowper.

Judge not the play before the play is done; / Her plot has many changes; every day / Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play. Quarles.

Judge not the preacher.... Do not grudge / 10 To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. / The worst speak something good; if all want sense, / God takes a text and preacheth patience. George Herbert.

Judge of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Bacon.

Judge thou me by what I am, / So shalt thou find me fairest. Tennyson.

Judge thyself with a judgment of sincerity, and thou wilt judge others with a judgment of charity. Mason.

Judges and senates have been bought for gold; / Esteem and love were never to be sold. Pope.

Judges are but men, and are swayed, like other 15 men, by vehement prejudices. D. Dudley Field.

Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. Bacon.

Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death. Carlyle.

Judgment is forced upon us by experience. Johnson.

Judgment is not a swift-growing plant; it requires time and culture to mature it. H. Ballou.

Judgment is turned away backward, and justice 20 standeth afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. Bible.

Judgment must sway the feelings and keep them in their right place, or harm will be done where good was intended. Spurgeon.

Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools. Bible.

Judgments that are made on the wrong side of the danger amount to no more than an affectation of skill, without either credit or effect. L'Estrange.

Judicandum est legibus, non exemplis—Judgment should be given according to law and not precedent. L.

Judicata res pro veritate accipitur—A matter 25 that has been adjudged is received as true. L.

Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda est / Externis virtus incomitata bonis—In your judgment virtue needs no reward, and is to be sought for her own sake, unaccompanied by external benefits. Ovid.

Judicia Dei sunt ita recondita ut quis illa scrutari nullatenus possit—The purposes of God are so abstruse that no one can possibly scrutinise them. Cic.

Judicio acri perpendere—To weigh with a keen judgment. Lucret.

Judicious persons will think all the less of us because of the ill-judged praises of our silly friends. Spurgeon.

Judicis est innocentiæ subvenire—It is the duty 30 of the judge to support innocence. Cic.

Judicis est judicare secundum allegata et probata—It is the judge's duty to decide in accordance with what is alleged and proved. L.

Judicis est jus dicere non dare—It is the judge's duty to enunciate the law, not to make it. L.

Judicis officium est, ut res, ita tempora rerum quærere—It is the judge's duty to inquire into not only the facts, but the circumstances. Ovid.

Judicium a non suo judice datum nullius est momenti—Judgment given by a judge in a matter outside his jurisdiction is of no legal force. L.

Judicium Dei—The judgment of God (as by 35 ordeal).

Judicium parium aut leges terræ—The judgment of our peers or the laws of the land. L.

Judicium subtile videndis artibus—A judgment nice in discriminating works of art. Hor.

Jugez un homme par ses questions, plutôt que par ses réponses—Judge of a man by his questions rather than his answers. Fr.

Jugulare mortuos—To stab the dead; to slay the slain. Pr.

Juncta juvant—Trivial things when united aid 40 each other.

Junctæque Nymphis Gratiæ decentes—The beauteous Graces linked hand in hand with the nymphs. Hor.

Junge Faullenzer, alte Bettler—A young idler makes an old beggar. Ger. Pr.

Junger Spieler, alter Bettler—Young a gambler, old a beggar. Ger. Pr.

Jungere dextras—To join right hands; to shake hands. Virg.

Jungere equos Titan velocibus imperat Horis—Titan 45 commands the swift-flying Hours to yoke the horses of the sun. Ovid.

Juniores ad labores—The younger men for labours, i.e., the heavier burdens.

Jupiter est quodcunque vides, quocunque moveris—Whatever you see, wherever you turn, there is Jupiter (Deity). Lucan.

Jupiter in multos temeraria fulmina torquet, / Qui pœnam culpa non meruere pati—Jupiter hurls his reckless thunderbolts against many who have not guiltily deserved such punishment. Ovid.

Jupiter tonans—The thunderer Jove.

Jura negat sibi nata, nihil non arrogat armis—He 50 says that laws were not framed for him; he claims everything by force of arms. Hor.

Jurado ha el vano de lo negro no hacer blanco—The bath has sworn not to wash the black man white. Sp. Pr.

Jurare in verba magistri—To swear by the words of the master.

Juravi lingua, mentem injuratam gero—I have sworn with my tongue, but I bear a mind unsworn. Cic.

Jure divino—By Divine right, or ordination of heaven.

Jure humano—By human law, or the will of the people.

Jure, non dono—By right, not by gift. M. 5

Jure repræsentationis—By right of representation. L.

Jurgia præcipue vino stimulata caveto—Above all, avoid quarrels excited by wine. Ovid.

Juris utriusque doctor—Doctor of both laws, civil and canon.

Juristen, böse Christen—Jurists are bad Christians. Ger. Pr.

Jus civile—The civil or Roman law. 10

Jus civile neque inflecti gratia, neque perfringi potentia, neque adulterari pecunia debet—The law ought neither to be warped by favour, nor broken through by power, nor corrupted by money. Cic.

Jus commune—The common or customary law.

Jus devolutum—A devolved right, specially of a presbytery in Scotland to present to a benefice, the patron having failed to do so. L.

Jus et norma loquendi—The law and rule of language.

Jus gentium—The law of nations, as the basis 15 of their international relations.

Jus gladii—The right of the sword.

Jus in re—A real right. L.

Jus omnium in omnia, et consequenter bellum omnium in omnes—The right of all to everything, and therefore of all to make war on all. Hobbes.

Jus mariti—The right of a husband. L.

Jus postliminii—The law of recovery of forfeited 20 rights. L.

Jus primogenituræ—The right of primogeniture. L.

Jus proprietatis—The right of property. L.

Jus regium—Royal right, or right of the Crown. L.

Jus sanguinis—The right of consanguinity, or blood. L.

Jus summum sæpe summa malitia est—Extreme 25 law is often extreme wrong. Ter.

Jusqu'où les hommes ne se portent-ils point par l'intérêt de la religion, dont ils sont si peu persuadés, et qu'ils pratiquent si mal?—To what excesses are not men carried in the interest of a religion of which they have little or no faith, and which they so badly practise? La Bruyère.

Just a kind word and a yielding manner, and anger and complaining may be avoided. Spurgeon.

Just a path that is sure, / Thorny or not, / And a heart honest and pure / Keeping the path that is sure, / That be my lot. Dr. W. Smith.

Just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. Bible.

Just are the ways of God, / And justifiable to 30 men; / Unless there be who think not God at all. Milton.

Just as a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man. St. Chrysostom.

Just as "dirt is something in its wrong place," so social evils are mainly wrong applications of right powers. H. Willett.

Just as gymnastic exercise is necessary to keep the body healthy, so is musical exercise necessary to keep the soul healthy; the proper nourishment of the intellect and passions can no more take place without music than the proper functions of the stomach and the blood without exercise. Plato, interpreted by Ruskin.

Just as the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can wake into life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems which prosperity or negligence would cause for ever to lie hid. Billings.

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, / When 35 thought is speech, and speech is truth. Scott.

Just enou', and nae mair, like Janet Howie's shearers' meat. Sc. Pr.

Just hatred of scoundrels, fixed, irreconcilable, inexorable enmity to the enemies of God; this, and not love of them, is the backbone of any religion whatsoever, let alone the Christian. Carlyle.

Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true, / A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew. Cowper.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with. Froude.

Just plain duty to know, / Irksome or not, / 40 And truer and better to grow / In doing the duty I know, / That I have sought. Dr. W Smith.

Justa razon engañar el engañador—It is fair to cheat the cheater. Sp. Pr.

Justæ causæ facilis est defensio—The defence of a just cause is easy.

Juste milieu—Right medium. M. of the government of Louis Philippe.

Justi ut sidera fulgent—The just shine as the stars. M.

Justice always is, whether we define or not. 45 Everything done, suffered, or proposed in Parliament, or out of it, is either just or unjust; either is accepted by the gods and eternal facts, or is rejected by them. Carlyle.

Justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organised selfishness of human nature. God has given manhood but one clue to success—utter and exact justice. Wendell Phillips.

Justice and judgment are the habitation of God's throne. Bible.

Justice and reverence are the everlasting central law of this universe. Carlyle.

Justice and truth alone are capable of being "conserved" and preserved. Carlyle.

Justice and truth are two points of such exquisite 50 delicacy, that our coarse and blunted instruments will not touch them accurately. Pascal.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving no offence. Cic.

Justice consists mainly in the granting to every human being due aid in the development of such faculties as it possesses for action and enjoyment, ... taking most pains with the best material. Ruskin.

Justice gives sentence many times / On one man for another's crimes. Butler.

Justice (such as Giotto represents her) has no bandage about her eyes, and weighs not with scales, but with her own hands; and weighs, not merely the shares and remunerations of men, but the worth of them; and finding them worth this or that, gives them what they deserve—death or honour. Ruskin.

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. Daniel Defoe.

Justice is blind; he knows nobody. Dryden.

Justice is conformity to what the Maker has 5 seen good to make. Carlyle.

Justice is lame as well as blind among us. Otway.

Justice is love's order. J. M. Gibbon.

Justice is not postponed. A perfect equality adjusts its balance in all parts of life. Emerson.

Justice is the bread of the nation; it is always hungry for it. Chateaubriand.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, 10 and stops the complaints of those who obey. Diderot.

Justice is the freedom of those who are equal. Injustice is the freedom of those who are unequal. Jacobi.

Justice is the great end of civil society. Dudley Field.

Justice is the keynote of the world, and all else is ever out of tune. Theod. Parker.

Justice is the whole secret of success in governments; as absolutely essential to the training of an infant as to the control of a mighty nation. Simms.

Justice is truth in action. Disraeli. 15

Justice, like lightning, ever shall appear, / To few men's ruin, but to all men's fear. Swetnam.

Justice may be furnished out of fire, as far as her sword goes; and courage may be all over a continual blaze. Addison.

Justice must and will be done. Carlyle.

Justice of thought and style, refinement in manners, good breeding, and politeness of every kind, can come only from the trial and experience of what is best. Duncan.

Justice pleaseth few in their own house. Pr. 20

Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone. Emerson.

Justice, self-command, and true thought are our salvation. Plato.

Justice, the miracle-worker among men. John Bright.

Justice were cruel weakly to relent; / From Mercy's self she got her sacred glaive: / Grace be to those who can and will repent; / But penance long and dreary to the slave. Thomson.

Justice, while she winks at crimes, / Stumbles 25 on innocence sometimes. Butler.

Justice without power is inefficient; power without justice is tyranny. Pascal.

Justice without wisdom is impossible. Froude.

Justicia, mas no por mi casa—Justice by all means, but not in my own house. Sp. Pr.

Justissimus unus / Et servantissimus æqui—Just and observant of what is right, as no other is. Virg.

Justitia erga Deum religio dicitur; erga parentes 30 pietas—The discharge of our duty towards God is called religion; towards our parents, piety. Cic.

Justitia est constans et perpetua voluntas jus suum cuique tribuendi—Justice is the constant and unswerving desire to render to every man his own. Just.

Justitia est obtemperatio scriptis legibus—Justice is conformity to the written laws. Cic.

Justitia et pax—Justice and peace. M.

Justitia nihil expetit præmii—Justice seeks no reward. Cic.

Justitia non novit patrem nec matrem, solum 35 veritatem spectat—Justice knows neither father nor mother; it regards the truth alone. L.

Justitia tanta vis est, ut ne illi quidem, qui maleficio et scelere pascuntur, possint sine ulla particula justitiæ vivere—There is such force in justice, that those even who live by crime and wickedness cannot live without some small portion of it among them. Cic.

Justitia virtutum regina—Justice is the queen of virtues. M.

Justitiæ partes sunt, non violare homines verecundiæ non offendere—It is the office of justice to injure no man; of propriety, to offend none. Cic.

Justitiæ soror fides—Faith the sister of justice. M.

Justitiæ tenax—Tenacious of justice. M. 40

Justum bellum quibus necessarium, et pia arma quibus nulla nisi in armis relinquitur spes—War is just to those to whom it is necessary; and to take up arms is a sacred duty with those who have no other hope left. Livy.

Justum et tenacem propositi virum, / Non civium ardor prava jubentium, / Non vultus instantis tyranni / Mente quatit solida—Not the rage of the citizens commanding wrongful measures, not the aspect of the threatening tyrant, can shake from his firm purpose the man who is just and resolute. Hor.

Justus propositi tenax—A just man steadfast to his purpose. Hor.

Justus ut palma florebit—The just shall flourish as a palm tree. M.

Juvante Deo—By the help of God. M. 45

Juvenile vitium regere non posse impetum—It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. Sen.

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[Greek: Kadmeia nikê]—A Cadmæan victory, i.e., one in which the conquerors suffer as much as the conquered.

[Greek: Kai touto toi t' andreion, hê promêthia]—And forethought too is a manly virtue. Euripides.

[Greek: Kairon gnôthi]—Know your opportunity. Pittachus, one of the seven sages of Greece.

[Greek: Kakon anankaion]—A necessary evil. 50

[Greek: Kakou korakos kakon ôon]—From a bad crow a bad egg. Pr.

Kalendæ Græcæ—Never (lit. the Greek Kalends).

Kalte Hand, warmes Herz—A cold hand, a warm heart. Ger. Pr.

Kann auch der Sonne Kraft ein irrer Stern entwallen? / Wie könnte denn ein Mensch aus Gottes Liebe fallen?—Can a planet wander away even from the power of the sun? How then can man fall out of the love of God? Rückert.

Kann er mir mehr als seine Seele geben?—Can he give me more than his soul? Lortzing.

Kann ich Armeen aus der Erde stampfen? / Wächst mir ein Kornfeld in der flachen Hand?—Can I stamp armies out of the earth? Does a field of corn grow on the palm of my hand? Schiller.

Kannst dem Schicksal widerstehen, / Aber manchmal giebt es Schläge; / Will's nicht aus dem Wege gehen, / Ei! so geh' du aus dem Wege.—Thou canst withstand fate, but many a time it gives blows. Will it not go out of thy way, why then, go thou out of its. Goethe.

Kannst du nicht allen gefallen durch deine 5 That und dein Kunstwerk: / Mach' es wenigen recht; vielen gefallen ist schlimm—If thou canst not by thy act or thy art please every one, be it thy endeavour to please a few; to attempt to please many is naught. Schiller.

Kannst du nicht der Welt entsagen, / Winkt das Glück dir nimmer zu—If thou canst not renounce the world, the genius of happiness never salutes thee. Prutz.

Kannst du nicht schön empfinden, dir bleibt doch, vernünftig zu wollen, / Und als ein Geist zu thun, was du als Mensch nicht vermagst—If thou canst not have fineness of feelings, it is still open to thee to will what is reasonable, and to do as a spirit what thou canst not do as a man. Goethe.

Kartenspiel ist des Teufels Gebetsbuch—A pack of cards is the devil's prayer-book. Ger. Pr.

[Greek: Kat' exochên]—By way of excellence; pre-eminently.

[Greek: Katopin heorês]—After the feast; too late. 10

[Greek: Katthane kai Patroklos, hoper seo pollon ameinôn]—Even Patroclus is dead, who was much better than thou. Hom.

Kauf bedarf hundert Augen; Verkauf hat an einem genug—One who buys needs a hundred eyes; one is enough for him who sells. Ger. Pr.

Kaufen ist wohlfeiler als Bitten—Buying is cheaper than asking. Ger. Pr.

Kaum ist ein Irrthum unterdrückt, so erhebt sich wieder ein anderer, den man schon in tiefe Vergessenheit begraben glaubte—No sooner is one error suppressed than another rises up again which was believed to be buried in eternal oblivion. Oersted.

Keep a gamester from dice, and a good student 15 from his book. Merry Wives, iii. 1.

Keep a thing seven years, and you find a use for it. Sc. Pr.

Keep all thy native good, and naturalise / All foreign of that name; but scorn their ill; / Embrace their activeness, not vanities. George Herbert.

Keep always in your mind that, with due submission to Providence, a man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. Johnson.

Keep company with the humble, with the devout, and with the virtuous; and confer with them of things that edify. Thomas à Kempis.

Keep cool, and you command everybody. St. 20 Just.

Keep good company, and you shall be of the number. Pr.

Keep me in patience; and, with ripened time, / Unfold the evil which is here wrapt up / In countenance. Meas. for Meas., v. 1.

Keep my judgments and do them. Bible.

Keep not standing fix'd and rooted; / Briskly venture, briskly roam; / Head and hand, where'er thou foot it, / And stout heart are still at home. / In what land the sun does visit, / Brisk are we, whate'er betide; / To give space for wandering is it / That the world was made so wide. Goethe.

Keep oot o' his company wha cracks o' his 25 cheatery, i.e., boasts of cunning. Sc. Pr.

Keep some till more come. Pr.

Keep the bowels open, the head cool, and the feet warm, and a fig for the doctors. Pr.

Keep the common road and you are safe. Pr.

Keep the dogs near when thou suppest with the wolf. Eastern Pr.

Keep the doors of thy mouth from her that 30 lieth in thy bosom. Bible.

Keep the imagination sane; that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven. Hawthorne.

Keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother. Bible.

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools. Bible.

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. Bible.

Keep thy mind always at its own disposal. 35 Thomas à Kempis.

Keep thyself perfectly still, however it may storm around thee. The more thou feelest thyself to be a man, so much the more dost thou resemble the gods. Goethe.

Keep to companions of your own rank. Goldsmith.

Keep to your subject close in all you say; / Nor for a sounding sentence ever stray. Dryden.

Keep well while you are well. Pr.

Keep what you want, cast what you can, and 40 expect nothing back once lost or once given. Ruskin.

Keep you in the rear of your affection, / Out of the shot and danger of desire. Ham., i. 3.

Keep your ain fish guts for your ain seamaws, i.e., what you don't need yourselves for your own friends. Sc. Pr.

Keep your breath to cool your own crowdie (cold stirabout), i.e., till you can use it to some purpose. Sc. Pr.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage; half-shut afterwards. Amer. Pr.

Keep your gab steeket (mouth shut) when ye 45 kenna (know not) your company. Sc. Pr.

Keep your hurry in your fist. Irish Pr.

Keep your idea while you can; let it still circulate in your blood, and there fructify; inarticulately inciting you to good activities; giving to your whole spiritual life a ruddier health. And when the time comes for speaking it you will speak it all the more concisely and the more expressively; and if such a time should never come, have you not already acted it and uttered it as no words can? Carlyle.

Keep your mouth and keep your friend. Dan. Pr.

Keep your mouth shut and your een open. Sc. Pr.

Keep your shop, and your shop will keep you. Pr.

Keeping from falling is better than helping up. Pr.

Kein Baum fällt auf den ersten Schlag—No 5 tree falls at the first blow. Ger. Pr.

Kein Bündniss ist mit dem Gezücht der Schlangen—No covenant is to be made with the serpent's brood. Schiller.

Kein Ding ist so schlecht, dass es nicht zu etwas nützen sollte—There's nothing so bad as not to be of service for something. Ger. Pr.

Kein grosser Mann muss eines natürlichen Todes sterben—No great man is ordained to die a natural death. Goethe.

Kein Kaiser hat dem Herzen vorzuschreiben—No emperor has power to dictate to the heart. Schiller.

Kein kluger Streiter hält den Feind gering—No 10 prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversary. Goethe.

Kein Mann ist im Stande, den Werth eines Weibes zu fühlen, das nicht sich zu ehren weiss—No man is able to feel the worth of a woman who knows not how to respect herself. Goethe.

Kein Mensch ergründet sein Verhängniss—No man ever fathoms the mystery of his fate. Bodenstedt.

Kein Mensch kann so ganz Teufel sein, dass er / Des Lichtes letzten Strahl in sich ersticke—No man can be so entirely evil as to stifle the last ray of light in his soul. Körner.

Kein Mensch / Muss das Unmögliche erzwingen wollen—No man must seek to constrain the impossible. Goethe.

Kein Mensch muss müssen—No man is compelled 15 to be compelled (lit., must must). Lessing.

Kein schöner Ding ist wohl auf Erden / Als Frauenlieb, wem sie mag werden—There is no finer thing, I ween, on earth than woman's love to him who may be the object of it. Luther.

Kein Schurke ist so dumm, dass er nicht einen Grund für seine Niederträchtigkeit fände—No scoundrel is so stupid as not to find a reason for his vile conduct. Körner.

Kein Wunder, dass wir uns Alle mehr oder weniger im Mittelmässigen gefallen, weil es uns in Ruhe lässt; es giebt das behagliche Gefühl, als wenn man mit seines Gleichen umginge—No wonder we are all more or less content with the ordinary, for it leaves us undisturbed; we have the comfortable feeling of having only to deal with our like. Goethe.

Keine Gaukelkunst berückt / Das Flammenauge, das ins Innere blickt—By no juggler's art can you beguile the eye of fire which glances into the inner soul of things. Schiller.

Keine Kunst ist, Geister loszulassen; / Kunstgerecht 20 sie binden, ist die Kunst—There is no art in freeing spirits; to bind them by art is art. Rückert.

Keine Probe ist gefährlich, zu der man Muth hat—No ordeal is hazardous which one has the courage to face. Goethe.

Keinen Glauben hat die Liebe / Als den Glauben an sich selber!—Love has no faith but faith in itself. Bodenstedt.

Keinen Reimer wird man finden, / Der sich nicht den besten hielte, / Keinen Fiedler, der nicht lieber / Eigne Melodien spielte—You will meet with no rhymer who does not think himself the best, no fiddler who does not prefer to play his own tunes. Goethe.

Keiner ist so klug, dass er nicht ein wenig Narrheit übrig hätte—No one is so wise as not to have a little folly to spare. Ger. Pr.

Ken when to spend, and when to spare, and 25 when to buy, and you'll ne'er be bare. Sc. Pr.

Ken yoursel', and your neebours winna mistak' you. Sc. Pr.

Kennst du das herrliche Gift der unbefriedigten Liebe? / Es versengt und erquickt, zehret am Mark und erneut's—Knowest thou the lordly poison of disappointed love? It withers up and quickens, consumes to the marrow and renews. Goethe.

Kennst du das Land, wo die Citronen blüh'n?—Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom? Goethe.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness than all the other holes in this world put together. Sterne.

Ki sokat markol, keveset szorit—He who 30 roves much takes firm root nowhere. J. Arany.

Kill, and thou shalt be killed, and they shall kill him who kills thee. Sp. Pr.

Kill no more than you can salt. Dan. Pr.

Kin or no kin, evil to him who has nothing. It. Pr.

Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood. Tennyson.

Kind words are worth much and they cost 35 little. Pr.

Kind words don't wear the tongue. Dan. Pr.

Kind words prevent a good deal of that perverseness which rough and imperious usage often produces in generous minds. Locke.

Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish. Pr.

Kindliness decreases when money is in question. Hausemann.

Kindness by secret sympathy is tied; / For 40 noble souls in nature are allied. Dryden.

Kindness canna aye lie on ae side o' the hoose. Sc. Pr.

Kindness comes o' will; it canna be coft (bought). Sc. Pr.

Kindness has resistless charms; / All things else but weakly move; / Fiercest anger it disarms, / And clips the wings of flying love. Rochester.

Kindness, in act at least, is in our power, but fondness is not. Johnson.

Kindness in us is the honey that blunts the 45 sting of unkindness in another. Landor.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love. Tam. the Shrew, iv. 2.

Kindness is a good thing in itself. Johnson.

Kindness is lost upon an ungrateful man. Pr.

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. Goethe.

Kindness is virtue itself. Lamartine. 50

Kindness, nobler ever than revenge. As You Like It, iv. 3.

Kindness out of season destroys authority. Saadi.

Kindness overcomes a' dislike. Sc. Pr.

Kindness will creep whaur it canna gang. Sc. Pr.

Kindnesses, like grain, increase by sowing. 5 Pr.

Kindnesses misplaced are nothing but a curse and a disservice. Ennius.

Kindred weaknesses induce friendship as often as kindred virtues. Bovee.

Kings alone are no more than single men. Pr.

Kings and bears aft worry their keepers. Sc. Pr.

Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves, 10 find a common level in two places—at the foot of the cross and in the grave. Colton.

Kings are but the slaves of their position; they dare not follow what their own hearts dictate. Schiller.

Kings are like stars; they rise and set; they have / The worship of the world, but no repose. Shelley.

Kings are said to have long arms; but every man should have long arms, and should pluck his living, his instruments, his power, and his knowing from the sun, moon, and stars. Emerson.

Kings are willing to be aided, but not surpassed. Grattan.

Kings' caff (chaff) is better than ither folk's 15 corn, i.e., perquisites in his service are better than the wages others give. Sc. Pr.

Kings' cheese gangs half awa' in parings, i.e., in the expense of collecting it. Sc. Pr.

Kings chiefly in this should imitate God; their mercy should be above all their works. Wm. Penn.

Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current, and not at their real value. La Roche.

Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause. Dryden.

Kings hae long lugs (ears). Sc. Pr. 20

Kings have long arms. Pr.

Kings may be bless'd, but Tam was glorious, / O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. Burns.

Kings ought to be kings in all things. Adrian.

Kings ought to shear, not skin their sheep. Herrick.

Kings' titles commonly begin by force, / Which 25 time wears off, and mellows on to right. Dryden.

Kings who affect to be familiar with their companions make use of men as they do of oranges, which, when they have well sucked, they throw away. Alva.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. Burke.

Kings wish to be absolute, and they are sometimes told that the best way to become so is to make themselves beloved by the people; but the maxim, unhappily, is laughed at in court. Rousseau.

Kiss (a) from my mother made me a painter. Ben. West.

Kisses are like grains of gold or silver found 30 upon the ground, of no value themselves, but precious as showing what a mine is near. George Villiers.

Kisses are pledges and incentives of love. Cotton.

Kisses are the messengers of love. Dan. Pr.

Kissing goes by favour. Pr.

Klein gewin brengt rijkdom in—Small gains bring riches in. Dut. Pr.

Kleine Diebe henkt man, grosse lässt man 35 laufen—We hang little thieves, but we let big ones off. Ger. Pr.

Kleine Diebe henkt man, vor grossen zieht man den Hut ab—We hang little thieves, and doff our hats to big ones. Ger. Pr.

Kleine Feinde und kleine Wunden sind nicht zu verachten—Paltry enemies and trifling wounds are not to be despised. Ger. Pr.

Kleine Geschenke erhalten die Freundschaft—Little gifts keep friendship green. Montesquieu.

Kleiner Profit und oft, ist besser wie grosser und selten—Slender profits and often are better than large ones and seldom. Ger. Pr.

Kluge Männer suchen wirthliche Frauen—Prudent 40 men woo thrifty women—Ger. Pr.

Knave! because thou strikest as a knight; / Being but knave, I hate thee all the more. Tennyson.

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not. Collier.

Knavery may serve for a turn, but honesty is best in the long-run. Pr.

Knavery's plain face is never seen till used. Othello, ii. 1.

Knaves easily believe that others are like 45 themselves; they can hardly be deceived, and they do not deceive others for any length of time. La Bruyère.

Knaves starve not in the land of fools. Churchill.

Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live. Shirley.

Kneeling ne'er spoiled silk stockings; quit thy state; / All equal are within the church's gate. George Herbert.

Know ere thou hint, and then thou may'st slack: / If thou hint ere thou know, then it is too late. Pr.

Know, fools only trade by the eye. Quarles. 50

Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow; / And what man gives, the gods by man bestow. Pope.

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong. Longfellow.

Know, Nature's children all divide her care; / The fur that warms a monarch warm'd a bear. Pope.

Know of a truth that only the time-shadows have perished or are perishable; that the real being of whatever was, and whatever is, and whatever will be, is even now and for ever. Carlyle.

Know that nothing can so foolish be / As 55 empty boldness. George Herbert.

Know that the loudest roar of the million is not fame; that the wind bag, are ye mad enough to mount it, will burst, or be shot through with arrows, and your bones too shall act as scarecrows. Carlyle.

Know then this truth (enough for man to know), / Virtue alone is happiness below. Pope.

Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; / The proper study of mankind is man. Pope.

Know thy thought—believe it—front heaven and earth with it, in whatsoever words nature and art have made readiest for thee. Carlyle.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God. Ruskin.

Know whom to honour, and emulate, and 5 follow; know whom to dishonour and avoid, and coerce under hatches, as a foul rebellious thing—this is all the Law and all the Prophets. Carlyle.

Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? St. James.

Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? / By their right arms the conquest must be wrought. Byron.

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle / Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime; / Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, / Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime? Byron.

Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me / From mine own library with volumes that / I prize above my dukedom. Tempest, i. 2.

Knowing is seeing. Locke. 10

Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason; / Work'st thou well to-day for worthy things; / Calmly wait the morrow's hidden season; / Need'st not fear what hap soe'er it brings. Carlyle, after Goethe.

Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps. Macaulay.

Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself. Johnson.

Knowledge and timber should not be much used until they are seasoned. Holmes.

Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, / 15 Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells / In heads replete with thoughts of other men; / Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own. Cowper.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. Plato.

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true. Locke.

Knowledge by rote is no knowledge, it is only a retention of what has been intrusted to the memory. Montaigne.

Knowledge by suffering entereth, / And life is perfected by death. E. B. Browning.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Tennyson. 20

Knowledge comes from experience alone. Carlyle.

Knowledge conquered by labour becomes a possession—a property entirely our own. S. Smiles.

Knowledge descries alone, wisdom applies; / That makes some fools, this maketh none but wise. Quarles.

Knowledge exists to be imparted. Emerson.

Knowledge has its penalties and pains as 25 well as its prizes. Bulwer Lytton.

Knowledge hath a bewildering tongue, and she will stoop and lead you to the stars, and witch you with her mysteries, till gold is a forgotten dross, and power and fame toys of an hour, and woman's careless love light as the breath that breaks it. Willis.

Knowledge humbleth the great man, astonisheth the common man, and puffeth up the little man. Pr.

Knowledge in music is in the thinking, and not in memorising. H. E. Holt.

Knowledge introduceth man to acquaintance; and, as the humble stream to the ocean, so doth it conduct him into the hard-acquired presence of the prince, whence fortune floweth. Hitopadesa.

Knowledge is a perennial spring of wealth, 30 ... and of itself is riches. Saadi.

Knowledge is a retreat and shelter for us in advanced age; and if we do not plant it when young, it will give us no shade when we grow old. Chesterfield.

Knowledge is as food, and needs no less / Her temp'rance over appetite, to know / In measure what the mind may well contain, / Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns / Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind. Milton.

Knowledge is boundless; human capacity limited. Chamfort.

Knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth. Bible.

Knowledge is escape from one's self. (?) 35

Knowledge is essential to freedom. Channing.

Knowledge is just like the sun in the heavens, inviting us to noble deeds and lighting our path. M. Harvey.

Knowledge is like current coin. A man may have some right to be proud of possessing it, (only) if he has worked for the gold of it, and assayed it, and stamped it, so that it may be received of all men as true, or earned it fairly, being already assayed. Ruskin.

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. Bacon.

Knowledge is most surely engraved on brains 40 well prepared for it. Rousseau.

Knowledge is no burden. Pr.

Knowledge is not an inert and passive principle, which comes to us whether we will or no; but it must be sought before it can be won; it is the product of great labour, and therefore of great sacrifice. Buckle.

Knowledge is not education, and can neither make us happy nor rich. Ruskin.

Knowledge is not happiness, and science but an exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance. Byron.

Knowledge is of things we see; / And yet we 45 trust it comes from thee, / A beam in darkness; let it grow. Tennyson.

Knowledge is power. Bacon.

Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; / Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Cowper.

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. Addison.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom. Jeremy Collier.

Knowledge is the excellency of man, whereby he is usually differenced from the brute. Swinnock.

Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know. Emerson.

Knowledge is the material with which genius builds her fabrics. Bryant.

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, 5 love itself. Hare.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man. Wm. Penn.

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best. Feltham.

Knowledge is to one a goddess, to another only an excellent cow. Schiller.

Knowledge, love, power constitute the complete life. Amiel.

Knowledge may not be as a courtesan for 10 pleasure and vanity only; or as a bond-woman, to acquire and gain for her master's use; but as a spouse, for generation, fruit, and comfort. Bacon.

Knowledge of my way is a good part of my journey. A. Warwick.

Knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy. Whately.

Knowledge of the world is dearly bought at the price of moral purity. E. Wigglesworth.

Knowledge perverted is knowledge no longer. Bulwer Lytton.

Knowledge produceth humility; from humility 15 proceedeth worthiness; from worthiness riches are acquired; from riches religion, and thence happiness. Hitopadesa.

Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. St. Paul.

Knowledge shall vanish away. St. Paul.

Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Schopenhauer.

Knowledge that terminates in curiosity and speculation is inferior to that which is useful, and of all useful knowledge that is the most so which consists in a due care and just notion of ourselves. St. Bernard.

Knowledge, the wing wherewith we fly to 20 heaven. 2 Hen. VI., iv. 7.

Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, / Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll; / Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, / And froze the genial current of the soul. Gray.

Knowledge, when wisdom is too weak to guide her, / Is like a headstrong horse that throws the rider. Quarles.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice. Hor.

Knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Johnson.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called 25 cunning rather than wisdom. Plato.

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use. Swinnock.

Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world. St. Paul.

Komm jedem, wie er sei, mit edeln Sinn entgegen, / Vielleicht wird dann in ihm, was edel ist, sich regen—Accost whoever you may meet with noble feeling; perhaps what is noble will begin to stir in him. J. Trojan.

Kraft erwart' ich vom Mann, des Gesetzes Würde behaupt' er; / Aber durch Anmuth allein herrschet und herrsche das Weib—I look for power in the man; he affirms the dignity of the law; but the woman rules, and will continue to rule, through grace alone. Schiller.

Krankes Fleisch, kranker Geist—Sickly in body, 30 sickly in mind. Ger. Pr.

Krieg bis aufs Messer—War to the knife. Ger.

Krieg ist ewig zwischen List und Argwohn, / Nur zwischen Glauben und Vertraun ist Friede—War is unending between cunning and mistrust; only between faith and trust is there peace. Schiller.

[Greek: Kreisson toi sophiê kai megalês aretês]—Wisdom is better than even great valour. Theognis.

[Greek: Kreitôn hê pronoia tês metameleias]—Thought beforehand is better than regret afterwards. Dionysius of Hal.

[Greek: Ktêma es aei]—A possession for ever. Thucydides. 35

[Greek: Kudos]—Fame; glory. Gr.

Kühl bis an's Herz hinan—Cool to the very heart. Goethe.

[Greek: Kynos ommat' echôn]—Having dog's eyes. Hom.

Kunst ist die rechte Hand der Natur. Diese hat nur Geschöpfe, jene hat Menschen gemacht—Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has made only creatures, the former has made men. Schiller.

Kurz ist der Lieb' Entzücken, doch ewig ist 40 die Pein—Short is the rapture of love, but eternal is the pain. S. Rossini.

Kurz ist der Schmerz, und ewig ist die Freude!—Short is the pain and eternal the joy! Schiller.

Kyrie eleeison—Lord, have mercy upon us.

Kythe (appear) in your ain colours, that folk may ken ye. Sc. Pr.

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L'absence est à l'amour ce qu'est au feu le vent; / Il éteint le petit, il allume le grand—Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it quenches the small flame and quickens the large. Bussy.

L'adresse surmonte la force—Skill surpasses 45 strength. Fr. Pr.

L'adversité est sans doute un grand maître; mais ce maître se fait payer cher ses leçons, et souvent le profit qu'on en retire ne vaut pas le prix qu'elles ont coûté—Adversity is without doubt a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dear for his instructions, and often the profit we derive from them is not worth the price we are required to pay. Rousseau.

L'adversité fait l'homme, et le bonheur les monstres—Men are formed in adversity, monsters in prosperity. Fr.

L'affaire s'achemine—The affair is going forward. Fr.

L'âge d'or était l'âge où l'or ne regnait pas—The golden age was the age in which gold did not reign. Lézay de Marnézia.

L'âge d'or, qu'une aveugle tradition a placé jusqu'ici dans le passé, est devant nous—The golden age, which a blind tradition has hitherto placed behind us, is before us. St. Simon.

L'aigle d'une maison est un sot dans une autre—The eagle of one house is a fool in another. Gresset.

L'aimable siècle où l'homme dit à l'homme, / Soyons frères, ou je t'assomme—That loving time when one man said to another, "Let us be brothers, or I will brain you." Le Brun, of French Revolution times.

L'Allégorie habite un palais diaphane—Allegory 5 dwells in a transparent palace. Lemierre.

L'Allegro—The merry Muse.

L'âme n'a pas de secret que la conduite ne révèle—The heart has no secret which our conduct does not reveal. Fr. Pr.

L'âme qui n'a point de but établi, elle se perd; c'est n'être en aucun bien, qu'être par tout—The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere. Montaigne.

L'ami du genre humain n'est point du tout mon fait—He who is the friend of every one has no interest for me. Molière.

L'amitié est l'amour sans ailes—Friendship is 10 love without wings, i.e., is steadfast. Fr. Pr.

L'amour apprend aux ânes à danser—Love teaches even asses to dance. Fr. Pr.

L'amour de la justice n'est, en la plus part des hommes, que la crainte de souffrir l'injustice—The love of justice is, in the majority of mankind, nothing else than the fear of suffering injustice. La Roche.

L'amour est le roman du cœur, / Et le plaisir en est l'histoire—Love is the heart's romance, pleasure is its history. M. de Bièvre.

L'amour est un vrai recommenceur—Love is a true renewer. Bussy-Rabutin.

L'amour est une passion qui vient souvent 15 sans savoir comment, et qui s'en va aussi de même—Love is a passion which comes often we know not how, and which goes also in like manner. Fr.

L'amour et la fumée ne peuvent se cacher—Love and smoke cannot be concealed. Fr. Pr.

L'amour-propre est le plus grand de tous les flatteurs—Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. La Roche.

L'amour-propre est un ballon gonflé de vent, dont il sort des tempêtes quand on lui fait une piqûre—Self-love is a balloon blown up with wind, from which tempests of passion issue as soon as it is pricked into. Voltaire.

L'amour-propre offensé ne pardonne jamais—Self-love offended never forgives. Vigée.

L'amour soumet la terre, assujettit les cieux, / 20 Les rois sont à ses pieds, il gouverne les dieux—Love rules the earth, subjects the heavens; kings are at his feet; he controls the gods. Corn.

L'anglais a les préjugés de l'orgueil, et les français ceux de la vanité—The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity. Rousseau.

L'anime triste di coloro / Che visser senza infamia, e senza lodo—The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise. Dante.

L'animal delle lunghe orecchie, dopo aver beveto dà calci al secchio—The ass (lit. long-eared animal), after having drunk, gives a kick to the bucket. It. Pr.

L'apparente facilité d'apprendre est cause de la perte des enfants—The apparent facility of learning is a reason why children are lost. Rousseau.

L'appétit vient en mangeant—Appetite comes 25 with eating, i.e., the more one has, the more one would have. Rabelais.

L'arbre de la liberté ne croît qu'arrosé par le sang des tyrans—The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. Barere.

L'arco si rompe se sta troppo teso—The bow when overstrained will break. It. Pr.

L'argent est un bon passe-partout—Money is a good pass-key or passport. Fr. Pr.

L'argent est un bon serviteur et un méchant maître—Money is a good servant, but a bad master. Fr. Pr.

L'art de vaincre est celui de mépriser la mort—The 30 art of conquering is that of despising death. Mme. de Sivry.

L'asino che ha fame mangia d'ogni strame—The ass that is hungry will eat any kind of litter. It. Pr.

L'aspettar del malo è mal peggiore / Forse che non parebbe il mal presente—The anticipation of evil is perhaps worse than the evil is felt to be when it comes. Tasso.

L'atrocité des lois en empêche l'exécution—The severity of the laws prevents the execution of them. Montesquieu.

L'avare est comme ces amans qu'un excès d'amour empêche de jouir—The miser is like a lover the excess of whose passion bars the enjoyment of it. Fr.

L'avenir—The future. Fr. 35

L'élévation est au merité, ce que la parure est aux belles personnes—Exalted station is to merit what the ornament of dress is to handsome persons. Fr.

L'éloquence a fleuri le plus à Rome lorsque les affaires ont été en plus mauvais état—Eloquence flourished most in Rome when its affairs were in the worst condition. Montaigne.

"L'empire, c'est la paix"—"The empire, that is peace." Napoleon III.

L'empire des lettres—The republic of letters. Fr.

L'ennui du beau, amène le goût du singulier—When 40 we tire of the beautiful it induces a taste for singularity. Fr.

L'ennui naquit un jour de l'uniformité—Ennui was born one day of uniformity. Lamotte-Houdard.

L'enseigne fait la chalandise—A good sign attracts custom. La Fontaine.

L'esclave n'a qu'un maître; l'ambitieux en a autant qu'il y a de gens utiles à sa fortune—A slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many as there are people who help him to his fortune. La Bruyère.

L'espérance est le songe d'un homme éveillé—Hope is the dream of a man awake. Fr. Pr.

L'esprit a son ordre, qui est par principes et 45 démonstrations, le cœur en a un autre—The mind has its way of proceeding by principles and demonstrations; the heart has a different method. Pascal.

L'esprit de la conversation consiste bien moins à en montrer beaucoup qu'à en faire trouver aux autres—Wit in conversation consists much less in displaying much of it than in stimulating it in others. La Bruyère.

L'esprit de la plupart des femmes sert plus à fortifier leur folie que leur raison—The wit of most women goes more to strengthen their folly than their reason. La Roche.

L'esprit de modération doit être celui du législateur—A legislator should be animated by the spirit of moderation. Montesquieu.

L'esprit est le dieu des instants, le génie est le dieu des âges—Wit is the god of the moments, but genius is the god of the ages. Fr.

L'esprit est toujours la dupe du cœur—The 5 mind is always the dupe of the heart. La Roche.

L'esprit est une plante dont on ne sauroit arrêter la végétation sans la faire périr—Wit is a plant of which you cannot arrest the development without destroying it. Fr. Pr.

L'esprit qu'on veut avoir, gâte celui qu'on a—The wit which we strive to possess spoils that which we naturally possess. Gresset.

L'esprit ressemble aux coquettes; ceux qui courent après lui sont ceux qu'il favorise le moins—Wit is like a coquette; those who run after it are the least favoured. Fr.

"L'état, c'est moi"—"The state, I am the state." Louis XIV.

L'état doit avoir aussi des entrailles—The state 10 as well as the individual ought to have a feeling heart. Cousin.

"L'Europe m'ennuie"—"I am tired of Europe." Napoleon, when he took the field against Russia.

L'exactitude est la politesse des rois—Punctuality is the politeness of kings. Max. of Louis XVIII.

L'excellence et la grandeur d'une âme brille et éclate d'avantage dans le mépris de richesse—The excellence and greatness of a soul are most conspicuously and strikingly displayed in the contempt of riches. Fr.

L'expérience de beaucoup d'opinions donne à l'esprit beaucoup de flexibilité, et l'affermit dans celles qu'il croit les meilleures—Acquaintance with a wide range of opinion imparts to the mind great flexibility, and confirms it in those which it believes to be the best. Fr.

L'imitazione del male supera sempre l'essempio; 15 come per il contrario l'imitazione del bene è sempre inferiore—He who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model, while he, on the contrary, who imitates what is good always comes short of it. Guicciardini.

L'impromptu est justement la pierre de touche de l'esprit—Impromptu is precisely the touchstone of wit. Molière.

L'habit ne fait point le moine—It is not the garb he wears that makes the monk. Pascal.

L'heure est à Dieu, l'espérance à tous—The hour appertains to God, hope to all. Fr.

L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs—History is but a picture of crimes and misfortunes. Voltaire.

L'homme absurde est celui qui ne change 20 jamais—The absurd man is he who never changes. Barthélemy.

L'homme est de glace aux vérités, / Il est de feu pour les mensonges—Man is as ice to what is true, and as fire to falsehood. La Fontaine.

L'homme est sourd à ses maux tant qu'à ses intérêts quand il s'agit de ses plaisirs—Men are regardless of their misfortunes as well as their interests when either are in competition with their pleasures. Fr.

L'homme est toujours l'enfant, et l'enfant toujours l'homme—The man is always the child, and the child is always the man. Fr.

L'homme est un apprenti, la douleur est son maître; / Et nul ne se connaît, tant qu'il n'a pas souffert—Man is an apprentice, pain is his master; and none knows himself so long as he has not suffered. A. de Musset.

L'homme n'est jamais moins misérable que 25 quand il paraît dépourvu de tout—Man is never less miserable than when he appears destitute of everything. Fr.

L'homme n'est ni ange ni bête, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la bête—Man is neither an angel nor a brute, but, as the evil genius will have it, he who aspires to be an angel degenerates into the brute. Pascal.

L'homme n'est qu'un roseau, le plus faible de la nature, mais c'est un roseau pensant—Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a reed that thinks. Pascal.

L'homme nécessaire—The right man. Fr.

L'homme propose et Dieu dispose—Man proposes and God disposes. Fr. Pr.

L'homme vraiment libre ne veut que ce qu'il 30 peut, et fait ce qu'il lui plait—The man who is truly free wills only what he can, and does only what pleases him. Rousseau.

L'honneur acquis est caution de celui qu'on doit acquérir—Honour acquired is an earnest of that which is to follow. La Roche.

L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend à la vertu—Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue. La Roche.

L'imagination est la folle du logis—Imagination is the madcap of the brain (lit. the merryandrew of the dwelling). Malebranche.

L'imagination galope, le jugement ne va que le pas—The imagination gallops, the judgment merely walks. Fr.

L'impossibilité où nous sommes de prouver 35 que Dieu n'est pas, nous découvre son existence—The impossibility which we feel of proving that there is not a God reveals to us His existence. Fr.

L'incrédulité est une croyance, une religion très exigeante, qui a ses dogmes, sa liturgie, ses pratiques, ses rites ... son intolerance, ses superstitions—Incredulity is a belief, a religion highly peremptory, which has its dogmas, its liturgy, its practices, its rites, ... its intolerance, and its superstitions. Alphonse Karr.

L'incroyable—The incredible; past belief.

L'industrie des hommes s'épuise à briguer les charges, il ne leur en reste plus pour en remplir les devoirs—The energies of men are so exhausted in canvassing for places, that they have none left to perform the duties which belong to them. Fr.

L'influence féminine devient l'auxiliaire indispensable de tout pouvoir spirituel, comme le moyen âge l'a tant montré—The influence of woman proves to be the indispensable auxiliary of all spiritual power, as the Middle Ages have so abundantly testified. (?)

L'ingegno, che spopola e che spalea / E l'asino d'un pubblico insolente, / Che mai lo pasce e sempre lo cavalca—The genius which devastates and destroys is the ass of the insolent public, who always mount and ride it, but never feed it. Giuseppe Giusti.

L'injustice à la fin produit l'indépendance—Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice. Voltaire.

L'institut des Jésuites est une épée, dont la poignée est à Rome et la pointe partout—The order of the Jesuits is a sword, the handle of which is at Rome and the point everywhere. Dupin.

L'Italia farà da se—Italy will do it by herself. M. of the Italian Revolution of 1849.

L'occasion fait le larron—Opportunity makes 5 the thief. Fr. Pr.

L'on espère de vieillir et l'on craint la vieillesse; c'est à dire l'on aime la vie et l'on fuit la mort—We hope to grow old, yet we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and shrink from death. La Bruyère.

L'on ne peut aller loin dans l'amitié, si l'on n'est pas disposé à se pardonner, les uns aux autres, les petits défauts—Friendship cannot go far if we are not disposed mutually to forgive each other's venial faults. La Bruyère.

L'on ne vaut dans ce monde que ce que l'on veut valoir—We are valued in this world at the rate at which we desire to be valued. La Bruyère.

L'on se repent rarement de parler peu, très souvent de trop parler: maxime usée et triviale que tout le monde sait, et que tout le monde ne pratique pas—We rarely repent of having spoken too little, very often of having spoken too much: a maxim this which is old and trivial, and which every one knows, but which every one does not practise. La Bruyère.

L'or est une chimère—Gold is but a chimæra, or 10 fabulous monster. S. Meyerbeer.

L'orateur cherche par son discours un archevêché, l'apôtre fait des conversions; il mérite de trouver ce que l'autre cherche—The preacher aims by his eloquence at an archbishopric, the apostle makes converts; he deserves to get what the other aims at. La Bruyère.

L'oreille est le chemin du cœur—The ear is the road to the heart. Voltaire.

L'orgueil ne veut pas devoir, et l'amour-propre ne veut pas payer—Pride wishes not to owe, and self-love does not wish to pay. La Roche.

L'ozio é il padre di tutti i visi—Idleness is the parent of all the vices. It. Pr.

L'ultima che si perde è la speranza—Hope is 15 the last thing we lose. It. Pr.

L'une des marques de la médiocrité d'esprit est de toujours conter—One of the marks of a mediocrity of intellect is to be given to story-telling. La Bruyère.

L'union fait la force—Union is strength. M.

L'usage fréquent des finesses est toujours l'effet d'une grande incapacité, et la marque d'un petit esprit—The frequent recourse to finesse is always the effect of incapacity and the mark of a small mind. Fr.

La beauté de l'esprit donne de l'admiration, celle de l'âme donne de l'estime, et celle du corps de l'amour—The charms of wit excite admiration, those of the soul esteem, and those of the body love. Fr.

La beauté sans vertu est une fleur sans parfum—Beauty 20 without virtue is a flower without fragrance. Fr. Pr.

La biblioteca è l'nutrimento dell'anima—Books are nourishment to the mind. It. Pr.

La bonne fortune et la mauvaise sont nécessaire à l'homme pour le rendre habile—Good fortune and bad are alike necessary to man in order to develop his capability. Fr.

La bride sur le cou—With loose reins; at full speed. Fr.

La buena vida padre y madre olvida—Prosperity forgets father and mother. Sp. Pr.

La carrière des lettres est plus épineuse que 25 celle de la fortune. Si vous avez le malheur d'être médiocre, voilà des remords pour la vie; si vous réussissiez, voilà des ennemis; vous marchez sur le bord d'un abîme entre le mépris et la haine—A literary career is a more thorny path than that which leads to fortune. If you have the misfortune not to rise above mediocrity, you feel mortified for life; and if you are successful, a host of enemies spring up against you. Thus you find yourself on the brink of an abyss between contempt and hatred. Voltaire.

La carrière ouverte aux talents—The course is open to men of talent—the tools to the man that can handle them (of which truth Napoleon has been described as the great preacher). Fr.

La Charte sera désormais une vérité—The Charter shall be henceforward a reality. Louis Philippe.

La clémence des princes n'est souvent qu'une politique pour gagner l'affection des peuples—The clemency of princes is often only a political manœuvre to gain the affections of their subjects. La Roche.

La colpa seguira la parte offensa / In grido, como suol—Blame, as is wont, wreaks its rage on those who suffer wrong. Dante.

La condition par excellence de la vie, de la 30 santé et de la force chez l'être organisé, est l'action. C'est par l'action qu'il developpe ses facultés, qu'il en augmente l'énergie, et qu'il atteint la plénitude de sa destinée—The chief condition on which depends the life, health, and vigour of an organised being is action. It is by action that it develops its faculties, that it increases its energy, and that it attains to the fulfilment of its destiny. Proudhon.

La confiance fournit plus à la conversation que l'esprit—Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit. La Roche.

La conscience est la voix de l'âme, les passions sont la voix du corps—Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Rousseau.

La constance des sages n'est que l'art de renfermer leur agitation dans leur cœur—The constancy of the wise is nothing but the art of shutting up whatever might disturb them within themselves. La Roche.

La corruption de chaque gouvernement commence presque toujours par celle des principes—The decay of every government almost always dates from the decay of the principles on which it is founded. Montesquieu.

La cour est comme un édifice bâti de marbre; 35 je veux dire qu'elle est composée d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis—The court is like an edifice built of marble; I mean, it is composed of men very hard but very polished. La Bruyère.

La cour ne rend pas content, elle empêche qu'on ne le soit ailleurs—The court does not make a man happy, and it prevents him from being so elsewhere. La Bruyère.

La crainte suit le crime, et c'est son châtiment—Fear haunts crime, and this is its punishment. Voltaire.

La crédulité est plutôt une erreur qu'une faute, et les plus de gens de bien en sont susceptibles—Credulity is rather an error than a fault, and the worthiest people are most subject to it. Fr.

La criaillerie ordinaire fait qu'on s'y accoutume et chacun la méprise—By continually scolding your inferiors, they at length become accustomed to it, and despise your reproof. Fr.

La critique est aisée, et l'art est difficile—Criticism 5 is easy, and art is difficult. Destouches.

La décence est le teint naturel de la vertu, et le fard du vice—Decency is the natural complexion of virtue and the deceptive guise of vice. Fr. Pr.

La défense est un charme; on dit qu'elle assaisonne les plaisirs, et surtout ceux que l'amour nous donne—Prohibition acts as a charm; it is said to give a zest to pleasures, especially to those which love imparts. La Fontaine.

La diffidenza è la madre della sicurtà—Diffidence (caution) is the mother of safety. It. Pr.

La dissimulation la plus innocente n'est jamais sans inconvénient; criminel ou non, l'artifice est toujours dangereux, et presque inévitablement nuisible—Dissimulation, even the most innocent, is always embarrassing; whether with evil intent or not, artifice is always dangerous, and almost inevitably disgraceful. La Bruyère.

La docte antiquité est toujours vénérable, / Je 10 ne la trouve pas cependant adorable—To the learning of antiquity I always pay due veneration, but I do not therefore adore it as sacred. Boileau.

La donna è mobile—Woman is inconstant. It.

La durée de nos passions ne dépend pas plus de nous que la durée de notre vie—The duration of our passions no more depends upon ourselves than the duration of our lives. La Roche.

La faiblesse de l'ennemi fait notre propre force—The weakness of the enemy forms part of our own strength. Pr.

La faim chasse le loup hors du bois—Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood. Fr. Pr.

La fama degli eroi spetta un quarto alla loro 15 audacia, due quarti alla sorte e l'altro quarto ai loro delitti—Great men owe a fourth part of their fame to their daring, two-fourths to fortune, and the remaining fourth to their crimes. U. Foscolo.

La farina del Diavolo, va tutta in crusca—The devil's meal turns all to chaff. Sp.

La farine du diable s'en va moitié en son—The devil's meal goes half to bran. Fr. Pr.

La faveur met l'homme au-dessus de ses égaux; et sa chute au-dessous—Favour exalts a man above his equals, and his fall or disgrace beneath them. La Bruyère.

La femme est l'élément le plus moral de l'humanité—Woman is the element in humanity that has the most moral power. (?).

La feuille tombe à terre, ainsi tombe la beauté—The 20 leaf falls to earth, so also does beauty.

La finesse n'est ni une trop bonne ni une très mauvaise qualité: elle flotte entre le vice et la vertu; il n'y a point de rencontre où elle ne puisse, et peut-être où elle ne doive être suppléée par la prudence—Finesse is neither a very good nor yet a very bad quality. It hovers between vice and virtue, and there are few occasions in which it cannot be, and perhaps ought not to be superseded by common prudence. La Bruyère.

La fleur des pois—The tip-top of fashion. Fr.

La force, proprement dite, c'est-ce qui régit les actes, sans régler les volontés—Force, strictly speaking, is that which rules the actions without regulating the will. (?)

La fortune du pot—Pot-luck. Fr.

La fortune passe partout—The vicissitudes of 25 fortune are felt everywhere. M.

La fortune vend ce qu'on croit qu'elle donne—Fortune sells what we think she gives. Fr. Pr.

La France est une monarchie absolue, tempérée par des chansons—France is an absolute monarchy tempered by epigrams. Quoted by Chamfort.

La France marche à la tête de la civilisation—France leads the van in the civilisation of the world. Guizot.

La garde meurt et ne se rend pas—The guard dies but does not surrender. Ascribed to Gen. Cambronne at Waterloo.

La générosité suit la belle naissance; / La 30 pitié l'accompagne et la reconnaissance—Generosity follows in the train of high birth; pity and gratitude are attendants. Corneille.

La gola e'l sonno e l'oziose piume / Hanno del mondo ogni vertù sbandita—Lust, sleep, and idleness have banished every virtue out of the world. Petrarch.

La goutte de rosée à l'herbe suspendue, / y réfléchit un ciel aussi vaste, aussi pur, / Que l'immense océan dans ses plaines d'azur—The drop of dew which hangs suspended from the grass-blade reflects a heaven as vast and pure as the ocean does in its wide azure plains. Lamartine.

La grammaire, qui sait régenter jusqu'aux rois—Grammar, that knows how to lord it even over kings. Molière.

La grande nation—The great nation. Napoleon when General Bonaparte, of France.

La grande sagesse de l'homme consiste à 35 connaître ses folies—It is in the knowledge of his follies that man shows his superior wisdom. Fr. Pr.

La guerre ou l'amour—War or love. M.

La jeunesse devrait être une caisse d'épargne—Youth ought to be a savings' bank. Mme. Swetchine.

La jeunesse vit d'espérance, la vieillesse de souvenir—Youth lives on hope, old age on memory. Fr. Pr.

La justice de nos jugements et de nos actions n'est jamais que la rencontre heureuse de notre intérêt avec l'intérêt public—The justice of our judgment and actions is never anything but the happy coincidence of our private with the public interest. Helvetius.

La justice et la vérité sont deux pointes si 40 subtiles, que nos instrumens sont trop émoussés pour y toucher exactement—Justice and truth are two points so fine that our instruments are too blunt to touch them exactly. Pascal.

La langue des femmes est leur épée, et elles ne la laissent pas rouiller—The tongue of a woman is her sword, which she seldom suffers to rust. Fr. Pr.

La légalité nous tue—Legality will be the death of us. M. Viennet.

La libéralité consiste moins à donner beaucoup, qu'à donner à-propos—Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in giving seasonably. La Bruyère.

La libertad es la juventud eterna de las naciones—Liberty is the eternal youth of the nations. Gen. Foy.

La liberté, convive aimable, / Met les deux 5 coudes sur la table—Liberty, an amiable guest, puts both her elbows upon the table, i.e., is free and at her ease. Voltaire.

La liberté est ancienne; c'est le despotisme qui est nouveau—Liberty is of ancient date; it is despotism that is new. Fr.

La lingua batte dove la dente duole—The tongue strikes where the tooth aches. It. Pr.

La loi ne saurait égaliser les hommes malgré la nature—The law cannot equalise men in spite of nature. Vauvenargues.

La maladie sans maladie.—The disease without disease, i.e., hypochondria. Fr.

La manière de former les idées est ce qui donne 10 caractère à l'esprit humain—It is the way in which our ideas are formed that a character is imparted to our minds. Rousseau.

La marque d'un mérite extraordinaire est de voir que ceux qui l'envient le plus, sont contraints de le louer—The proof of superior merit is to see how those who envy it most are constrained to praise it. Fr.

La menzogna c'insegue anche sotterra—Falsehood follows us even into the grave. Giuseppe Nicolini.

La mode est un tyran dont rien nous délivre, / A son bizarre goût il faut s'accommoder—Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical taste. Fr.

La modération des faibles est médiocrité—The moderation of the weak is mediocrity. Vauvenargues.

La moitié du monde prend plaisir à médire, et 15 l'autre moitié à croire les médisances—One half of the world takes delight in slander, and the other half in believing it. Fr. Pr.

La moltiplicità delle leggi e dei medici in un paese sono egualmente segni di malore di quello—A multiplicity of laws and a multiplicity of physicians in any country are proofs alike of its bad state. It. Pr.

La montagne est passée, nous irons mieux—We are over the hill; we shall go better now. Frederick the Great's last words.

La moquerie est souvent indigence d'esprit—Derision is often poverty of wit. La Bruyère.

La morale trop austère se fait moins aimer qu'elle ne se fait craindre; et qui veut qu'on profite de ses leçons donne envie de les entendre—Morality when too austere makes itself less loved than feared; and he who wishes others to profit from its lessons should awaken a desire to listen to them. Fr.

La mort est plus aisée à supporter sans y 20 penser, que la pensée de la mort sans péril—Death is more easy to bear when it comes without thought of it, than the thought of it without the risk of it. Pascal.

La mort ne surprend point le sage; / Il est toujours prêt à partir, / S'étant su lui-même avertir / Du temps où l'on se doit résoudre à ce passage—Death is no surprise to the wise man; he is always ready to depart, having learnt to anticipate the time when he must make up his mind to take this last journey. La Fontaine.