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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._
=La musique seule est d'une noble inutilité, et c'est pour cela qu'elle nous émeut si profondément; plus elle est loin de tout but, plus elle se rapproche de cette source intime de nos pensées que l'application à un objet quelconque reserve dans son cours=--Music alone is nobly non-utilitarian, and that is why it moves us so profoundly; the further it is removed from serving any purpose, the nearer it approaches that inner spring of our thoughts which the application to any object whatever hampers in its course. _Mme. de Staël._
=La naissance n'est rien où la vertu n'est pas=--Birth is nothing where virtue is not. _Molière._
=La nation en deuil=--The nation in mourning. _Montalembert on Poland._
=La nation ne fait pas corps en France; elle= 25 =réside toute entière dans la personne du roy=--In France the nation is not a corporate body; it resides entirely in the person of the king. _Louis XIV._
=La nature a donné deux garants de la chastité des femmes, la pudeur et les remords; la confession les prive de l'un, et l'absolution de l'autre=--Nature has given two safeguards for female chastity, modesty and remorse, but confession deprives them of the one and absolution of the other. _Fr._
=La nature aime les croisements=--Nature is
## partial to cross-breedings. _Fourier._
=La nature est juste envers les hommes=--Nature is just to men. _Montesquieu._
=La nature s'imite=--Nature imitates herself. _Pascal._
=La nuit porte conseil=--The night brings good 30 counsel. _Fr. Pr._
=Là ou ailleurs=--There or elsewhere. _M._
=Là où la chèvre est attachée, il faut qu'elle broute=--The goat must browse where it is tethered. _Fr. Pr._
=La parfaite valeur est de faire sans témoins ce qu'on serait capable de faire devant tout le monde=--Sterling worth shows itself in doing unseen what we would be capable of doing in the eye of the world. _La Roche._
=La parole a été donnée à l'homme pour déguiser sa pensée=--Speech has been given to man to conceal his thought. _Voltaire._
=La passion déprave, mais elle élève aussi=--Passion 35 depraves, but it also elevates. _Lamartine._
=La passion fait souvent un fou du plus habile homme, et rend souvent habiles les plus sots=--Love often makes a fool of the cleverest man, and often gives cleverness to the most foolish. _La Roche._
=La patience est amère, mais le fruit en est doux=--Patience is bitter, but it yields sweet fruit. _Rousseau._
=La patience est l'art d'espérer=--Patience is the art of hoping. _Vauvenargues._
=La patience est le remède le plus sûre contre les calomnies: le temps, tôt ou tard, découvre la vérité=--Patience is the surest antidote against calumny; time, sooner or later, will disclose the truth. _Fr._
=La patrie veut être servie, et non pas dominée=--Our country requires us to serve her, and not to lord it over her. _Fr._
=La pauvreté n'est pas un péché, / Mieux vaut cependant la cacher=--Poverty is not a sin; but it is better to hide it. _Fr. Pr._
=La perfection marche lentement, il lui faut la main du temps=--Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time. _Voltaire._
=La peur est un grand inventeur=--Fear is a great inventor. _Fr. Pr._
=La philosophie non seulement dissipe nos inquiétudes,= 5 =mais elle nous arme contre tous les coups de la fortune=--Philosophy not only dissipates our anxieties, but it arms us against the buffets of fortune. _Fr._
=La philosophie qui nous promet de nous rendre heureux, trompe=--Philosophy, so far as she promises us happiness, deceives us. _Fr._
=La philosophie triomphe aisément des maux passés, et des maux à venir; mais les maux présents triomphent d'elle=--Philosophy triumphs easily enough over misfortunes that are past and to come, but present misfortunes triumph over her. _La Roche._
=La plupart des hommes, pour arriver à leurs fins, sont plus capables d'un grand effort que d'une longue persévérance=--To attain their ends most people are more capable of a great effort than of continued perseverance. _La Bruyère._
=La plupart des peuples, ainsi que des hommes, ne sont dociles que dans leur jeunesse; ils deviennent incorrigibles en vieillisant=--Most nations, as well as men, are impressible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow old. _Rousseau._
=La plupart des troubles de ce monde sont= 10 =grammairiens=--The majority of the troubles in this world are the fault of the grammarians. _Montaigne._
=La plus belle victoire est de vaincre son cœur=--The noblest victory is to conquer one's own heart. _La Fontaine._
=La plus courte folie est toujours la meilleure=--The short folly is always the best. _Fr._
=La plus part des hommes emploient la première
## partie de leur vie à rendre l'autre misérable=--The
generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter
## part miserable. _La Bruyère._
=La plus part des hommes n'ont pas le courage de corriger les autres, parcequ'ils n'ont pas le courage de souffrir qu'on les corrige=--The generality of mankind have not the courage to correct others, because they have not themselves the courage to bear correction.
=La poesia non muore=--Poetry does not die. 15 _B. Zendrini._
=La politesse est l'art de rendre à chacun sans effort ce que lui est socialement dû=--Politeness is the art of rendering spontaneously to every one that which is his due as a member of society. _Fr._
=La popularité c'est la gloire en gros sous=--Popularity is glory in penny-pieces. _Victor Hugo._
=La prière est un cri d'espérance=--Prayer is a cry of hope. _A. de Musset._
=La propriété c'est le vol=--Property, that is theft. _Proudhon._
=La propriété exclusive est un vol dans la= 20 =nature=--Exclusive ownership is a theft in nature. _Fr._
=La prospérité fait peu d'amis=--Prosperity makes few friends. _Vauvenargues._
=La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure=--The argument of the strongest is always the best, _i.e._, has most weight. _La Fontaine._
=La raison émancipée n'a pas nui à la cause de Dieu; elle l'a servie=--The emancipation of reason has not injured the cause of God; it has promoted it. _V. Cousin._
=La raison seule peut faire des lois obligatoires et durables=--Reason alone can render laws binding and stable. _Mirabeau._
=La recherche de la paternité est interdite=--Investigation 25 of paternity is forbidden. _Code Napoléon._
=La recherche du vrai, et la pratique du bien, sont les deux objets les plus importants de la philosophie=--The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy. _Voltaire._
=La reconnaissance est un fardeau, et tout fardeau est fait pour être secoué=--Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off. _Diderot._
=La réputation d'un homme est comme son ombre, qui tantôt le suit, et tantôt le précède; quelquefois elle est plus longue, et quelquefois plus courte que lui=--A man's reputation is like his shadow, which sometimes follows, sometimes precedes him, and which is occasionally longer, occasionally shorter than he is. _Fr._
=La roche Tarpéienne est près du Capitole=--The Tarpeian rock is near the Capitol, _i.e._, the place of execution is near the scene of triumph. _Jouy-Spontini._
=La ruse est le talent des égoïstes, et ne peut= 30 =tromper que les sots que prennent la turbulence pour l'esprit, la gravité pour la prudence, effronterie pour le talent, l'orgueil pour la dignité.=--Cunning is the accomplishment of the selfish, and can only impose upon silly people, who take bluster for sense, gravity for prudence, effrontery for talent, and pride for dignity. _Mirabeau._
=La sage conduite roule sur deux pivots, le passé et l'avenir=--Prudent conduct turns on two pivots, the past and the future, _i.e._, on a faithful memory and forethought. _La Bruyère._
=La sauce vaut mieux que le poisson=--The sauce is better than the fish. _Fr. Pr._
=La science du gouvernement n'est qu'une science de combinaisons, d'applications et d'exceptions, selon le temps, les lieux, les circonstances=--The science of government is only a science of combinations, applications, and exceptions, according to time, place, and circumstance. _Rousseau._
=La seule vertu distingue les hommes, dès qu'ils sont morts=--By their virtues alone are men distinguished after they are dead. _L'Abbé de Choisy._
=La silence est la vertu de ceux qui ne sont= 35 =pas sages=--Silence is the virtue of the foolish. _Bouhours._
=La speranza è l'ultima ch'abbandona l'infelice=--Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy. _It. Pr._
=La tempérance et le travail sont les deux vrais médicins de l'homme=--Temperance and labour are the two real physicians of man. _Rousseau._
=La terre est couverte de gens qui ne méritent pas qu'on leur parle=--The earth swarms with people who are not worth talking to. _Voltaire._
=La verdad es hija de Dios=--Truth is the daughter of God. _Sp. Pr._
=La verdad es sempre verde=--Truth is always green. _Sp. Pr._
=La vérité est cachée au fond du puits=--Truth is hidden at the bottom of a well. _Fr. Pr._
=La vérité ne fait pas autant de bien dans le= 5 =monde que ses apparences y font de mal=--Truth does not produce so much good in the world as the hypocritical profession of it does mischief. _Fr._
=La vertu a des appas qui nous portent au véritable bonheur=--Virtue has attractions which lead us to true happiness. _Fr._
=La vertu dans l'indigence est comme un voyageur, que le vent et la pluie contraignent de s'envelopper de son manteau=--Virtue in want is like a traveller who is compelled by the wind and rain to wrap himself up in his cloak. _Fr. Pr._
=La virtù è simile ai profumi, che rendono più grato odore quando triturati=--Virtue is like certain perfumes, which yield a more agreeable odour from being rubbed. _It._
=La vertu est la seule noblesse=--Virtue is the only true nobility. _M._
=La vertu est partout la même: c'est qu'elle= 10 =vient de Dieu, et le reste est des hommes=--Virtue is everywhere the same; the reason is it proceeds from God, and the rest is from men. _Voltaire._
=La vertu fut toujours en minorité sur la terre=--Virtue has ever been in the minority on earth. _Robespierre._
=La vertu n'iroit pas si loin, si la vanité ne lui tenait compagnie=--Virtue would not go so far if vanity did not bear her company. _La Roche._
=La vicinanza de' grandi sempre è pericolosa ai picoli; sono grandi come il fuoco, che brucia eziandio quei che vi gettano dell' incenso se troppo vi si approsimino=--The neighbourhood of the great is always dangerous to the little. The great are to them as a fire which scorches those who approach it too nearly. _It._
=La vida es corta y la esperanza larga, / El bien huye de mi y el mal se alarga=--Life is short, yet hope endures; good flies off, but evil ever lurks about. _Luis de Góngora._
=La vie des héros a enrichi l'histoire, et l'histoire= 15 =a embelli les actions des héros=--The lives of heroes have enriched history, and history has embellished the exploits of heroes. _La Bruyère._
=La vieillesse nous attache plus de rides en l'esprit qu'en visage=--Old age contracts more wrinkles on the mind than the countenance. _Montaigne._
=La ville est le séjour de profanes humains, les dieux habitent la campagne=--Towns are the dwelling-places of profane mortals; the gods inhabit rural retreats. _Rousseau._
=La violence est juste où la douceur est vaine=--Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not. _Corneille._
=La volontà è tutto=--The will is everything. _It. Pr._
=La vraie science et le vrai étude de l'homme,= 20 =c'est l'homme=--The real science and the real study for man, is man himself. _Charron._
=Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis ævum=--The stream flows, and will go on flowing for ever. _Hor._
=Labitur occulte, fallitque volubilis ætas=--Time glides on stealthily, and eludes us as it steals past. _Ovid._
=Labor ipse voluptas=--Labour itself is a pleasure. _M._
=Labor omnia vincit / Improbus, et duris urgens in rebus egestas=--Persevering labour overcomes all difficulties, and want that urges us on in the pressure of things. _Virg._
=Laborare est orare=--Work is worship (_lit._ to 25 labour is to pray). _Monkish Pr._
=Labore=--By labour. _M._
=Labore et honore=--By labour and honour. _M._
=Labore vinces=--By labour you will conquer. _M._
=Laborum dulce lenimen=--The sweet soother of my toils. _Hor. to his lyre._
=Labour bestowed on nothing is fruitless.= _Hitopadesa._ 30
=Labour endears rest, and both together are absolutely necessary for the proper enjoyment of human existence.= _Burns._
=Labour for labour's sake is against nature.= _Locke._
=Labour has a bitter root but a sweet taste.= _Dan. Pr._
=Labour is exercise continued to fatigue; exercise is labour used only while it produces pleasure.= _Johnson._
=Labour is life. From the inmost heart of the= 35 =worker rises his God-given force--the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God.= _Carlyle._
=Labour is preferable to idleness, as brightness to rust.= _Plato._
=Labour is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.= _Anon._
=Labour is the fabled magician's wand, the philosopher's stone, and the cap of Fortunatus.= _J. Johnson._
=Labour is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.= _J. G. Holland._
=Labour is the Lethe of both past and present.= 40 _Jean Paul._
=Labour is the ornament of the citizen; the reward of toil is when you confer blessings on others; his high dignity confers honour on the king; be ours the glory of our hands.= _Schiller._
=Labour is the talisman that has raised man from the condition of the savage.= _M'Culloch._
=Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, / The protest of the weak against the strong.= _Faber._
=Labour, if it were not necessary for the existence, would be indispensable for the happiness, of man.= _Johnson._
=Labour, like everything else that is good, is= 45 =its own reward.= _Whipple._
=Labour like this our want supplies, / And they must stoop who mean to rise.= _Cowper._
=Labour of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness (for the mind); it has a constant and imperishable moral.= _Thoreau._
=Labour past is pleasant.= _Pr._
=Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire--conscience.= _Washington._
=Labour, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.= _Carlyle._
=Labour with what zeal we will, / Something= 5 =still remains undone, / Something uncompleted still / Waits the rising of the sun.= _Longfellow._
=Lachen, Weinen, Lust und Schmerz / Sind Geschwister-Kinder=--Laughing and weeping, pleasure and pain, are cousins german. _Goethe._
=Lacrymæque decoræ, / Gratior et pulchro veniens in corpore virtus=--His tears, that so well become him, and a merit still more pleasing that shows itself in his fair form. _Virg._
=Lactuca innatat acri / Post vinum stomacho=--Lettuce after wine floats on the acrid stomach. _Hor._
=Lad's love is lassie's delight, / And if lads won't love, lassies will flite= (scold). _Craven._
=Lad's love's a busk of broom, hot awhile and= 10 =soon done.= _Pr._
=Lade nicht alles in ein Schiff=--Embark not your all in one venture. _Ger. Pr._
=Ladies like variegated tulips show; / 'Tis to their changes half their charms they owe.= _Pope._
=Læso et invicto militi=--For our wounded but unconquered soldiery. _Inscription on the Berlin Invalidenhaus._
=Lætus in præsens animus, quod ultra est / Oderit curare, et amara lento / Temperet risu. Nihil est ab omni / Parte beatum=--The mind that is cheerfully contented with the present will shrink from caring about anything beyond, and will temper the bitters of life with an easy smile. There is nothing that is blessed in every respect. _Hor._
=Lætus sorte tua vives sapienter=--You will live 15 wisely if you live contented with your lot. _Pr._
=Lætus sum laudari a laudato viro=--I am pleased to be praised by a man who is so praised as you are. _Cic._
=Laisser dire le monde, et toujours bien faire, c'est une maxime, qui étant bien observée assure notre repos, et établit enfin notre réputation=--To let the world talk, and always to act correctly, is a maxim which, if well observed, will secure our repose, and in the end establish our reputation. _Fr._
=Laissez dire les sots, le savoir a son prix=--Let ignorance talk, learning has its value. _La Fontaine._
=Laissez faire, laissez passer!=--Let it be! Let it pass! _Gournay, Quesnay._
=Laissez faire--the "let alone" principle, is, in= 20 =all things which man has to do with, the principle of death. It is ruin to him, certain and total, if he lets his land alone--if he lets his fellow-men alone--if he lets his own soul alone.= _Ruskin._
=Laissez-leur prendre un pied chez vous, / Ils en auront bientôt pris quatre=--Let them take one foot in your house, and they will soon have taken four (give them an inch and they will take an ell). _La Fontaine._
=Lamenting becomes fools, and action wise folk.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Lampoons and satires, that are written with wit and spirit, are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.= _Addison._
=Land is the right basis of an aristocracy. No true aristocracy but must possess the land.= _Carlyle._
=Land of lost gods and godlike men.= _Byron of_ 25 _Greece._
=Land should be given to those who can use it, and tools to those who can use them.= _Ruskin._
=Land was never lost for want of an heir.= _Pr._
=Lands intersected by a narrow firth / Abhor each other. Mountains interposed / Make enemies of nations, which had else, / Like kindred drops, been mingled into one.= _Cowper._
=Lands mortgaged may return, and more esteemed; / But honesty once pawned is ne'er redeemed.= _Middleton._
=Lang ill, soon weel.= _Sc. Pr._ 30
=Lang syne, in Eden's bonny yaird, / When youthfu' lovers first were pair'd, / And all the soul of love they shared, / The raptured hour, / Sweet on the fragrant flowery swaird, / In shady bower, / Then you, ye auld sneck-drawing= (latch-lifting) =dog, / Ye cam' to Paradise incog, / And play'd on man a curséd brogue, / (Black be your fa') / And gied the infant warld a shog= (shake), / ='Maist ruin'd a'.= _Burns to the Deil._
=Langage des halles=--Language of the fishmarket. _Fr._
=Lange ist nicht ewig=--Long is not for ever. _Ger. Pr._
=Lange Ueberlegungen zeigen gewöhnlich, dass man den Punkt nicht im Auge hat, von dem die Rede ist; übereilte Handlungen, dass man ihn gar nicht kennt=--Long pondering on a matter usually indicates that one has not properly got his eye on the point at issue; and too hasty action that he does not know it at all. _Goethe._
=Langes Leben heisst viele überleben=--To live 35 long is to outlive many. _Goethe._
=Langeweile ist ein böses Kraut / Aber auch eine Würze, die viel verdaut=--Ennui is an ill weed, but also a condiment which digests a good deal. _Goethe._
=Langh festjen is nin brae sperjen=--A long fast saves no bread. _Fris. Pr._
=Langsam nur im Menschengeiste / Reift das Saatkorn der Erkenntniss, / Doch die Blumen wachsen schnell=--The seed-grain of knowledge ripens but slowly in the spirit of man, yet the flowers grow fast. _Bodenstedt._
=Language at its infancy is all poetry.= _Emerson._
=Language is always wise.= _Emerson._ 40
=Language is fossil poetry.= _Trench._
=Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.= _Sir H. Davy._
=Language is only clear when it is sympathetic.= _Ruskin._
=Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently it becomes its master.= _W. B. Clulow._
=Language is the armoury of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future, conquests.= _Coleridge._
=Language is the dress of thought.= _Johnson._
=Language is the memory of the human race. It is a thread or nerve of life running through all the ages, connecting them into one common, prolonged, and advancing existence.= _Wm. Smith._
=Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee.= _Ben Jonson._
=Languages are more properly to be called= 5 =vehicles of learning than learning itself.... True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.= _Lady Montagu._
=Languages are the barometers of national thought and character.= _Hare._
=Languages are the pedigree of nations.= _Johnson._
=Lapidary inscriptions should be historical rather than lyrical.= _Carlyle._
=Lapis philosophorum=--The philosopher's stone.
=Lapis qui volvitur algam non generat=--A rolling 10 stone gathers no moss. _Pr._
=Lapsus memoriæ=--A slip of the memory.
=Lares et penates=--Household gods.
=Large bodies are far more likely to err than individuals. The passions are inflamed by sympathy; the fear of punishment and the sense of shame are diminished by partition. Every day we see men do for their faction what they would die rather than do for themselves.= _Macaulay._
=Large charity doth never soil, but only whiten, soft white hands.= _Lowell._
=Large fortunes are all founded either on occupation= 15 =of land, or usury, or taxation of labour.= _Ruskin._
=Large fortunes cannot be made by the work of any one man's hands or head.= _Ruskin._
=Large masses of mankind, in every society of our Europe, are no longer capable of living at all by the things which have been.= _Carlyle._
=Largitio fundum non habet=--Giving has no bottom. _Pr._
=Las manos blancas no ofenden=--White hands cannot harm one. _Sp. Pr._
=Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate=--Abandon 20 all hope, ye who enter here. _Dante._
=Lascivi soboles gregis=--The offspring of a wanton herd. _Hor._
=Lass das Vergangne vergangen sein=--Let what is past be past. _Goethe, Faust to Margaret in the end._
=Lass deine Zunge nie das Amt des Schwertes führen=--Never let thy tongue do the work of the sword. (?)
=Lass dich nicht verblüffen=--Don't let yourself be disconcerted. _Herder._
=Lass die Leute reden und die Hunde bellen=--Let 25 the people talk and the dogs bark. _Ger. Pr._
=Lass die schwerste Pflicht dir die allerheiligste Pflicht sein=--Let the most arduous duty be the most sacred of all to thee. _Lavater._
=Lass die Winde stürmen auf des Lebens Bahn, / Ob sie Wogen türmen gegen deinen Kahn. / Schiffe ruhig weiter, wenn der Mast auch bricht, / Gott ist dein Begleiter, er vergisst dich nicht=--Let winds storm on life's course, even though they swell over and threaten thy skiff. Sail quietly on, even if the mast gives way. God is thy convoy; He forgets thee not. _Tiedge._
=Lass diesen Händedruck dir sagen / Was unaussprechlich ist=--Let this pressure of the hand reveal to thee what is unutterable. _Goethe, Faust to Margarite._
=Lass ruhn, lass ruhn die Toten, / Du weckst sie mit Klagen nicht auf=--Let them rest, let thy dead ones rest, thou awakest them not with thy wailing. _Chamisso._
=Lasses and glasses are brittle wares.= _Sc. Pr._ 30
=Lasst fahren hin das allzu Flüchtige! / Ihr sucht bei ihm vergebens Rat! / In dem Vergangnen lebt das Tüchtige / Verewigt sich in schöner That=--Let the too transient pass by; ye seek counsel in vain of it. Yet what will avail you lives in the past, and lies immortalised in what has been nobly done. _Goethe._
=Lasst uns hell denken, so werden wir feurig lieben=--Let us think clearly, we shall love ardently. _Schiller._
=Last come, worst served.=
=Last in bed, best heard.= _Pr._
=Last, not least.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 1. _Lear_, i. 1. 35
=Last scene of all, ... / Is second childishness and mere oblivion; / Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.
=Late children are early orphans.= _Sp. Pr._
=Late fruit keeps well.= _Ger. Pr._
=Lateat scintillula forsan=--A small spark may perhaps lurk unseen. _M._
=Laterem laves=--You may as well wash a clay 40 brick white. _Ter._
=Latet anguis in herba=--There is a snake in the grass. _Virg._
[Greek: lathe biôsas]--Remain hidden in life. _Epicurus._
=Latitat=--He lurks; a writ of summons (Law).
=Latius regnes, avidum domando / Spiritum, quam si Libyam remotis / Gadibus jungas, et uterque Pœnus / Serviat uni=--By subduing an avaricious spirit you will rule a wider empire than if you united Lybia to the far-off Gades, and the Carthaginian on both shores should be subject to you alone. _Hor._
=Latrante uno, latrat statim et alter canis=--When 45 one dog barks, another straightway begins to bark too. _Pr._
=Latrantem curatne alta Diana canem?=--Does the high-stepping Diana care for the dog that bays her? _Pr._
=Laudant quod non intelligunt=--They praise what they don't understand.
=Laudari a viro laudato maxima est laus=--To be commended by a man of high repute is the greatest possible praise.
=Laudat venales qui vult extrudere merces=--He praises his wares who wishes to palm them off upon others. _Hor._
=Laudato ingentia rura, / Exiguum colito=--Praise 50 a large estate, but cultivate a small one. _Virg._
=Laudator temporis acti=--The praiser of bygone times. _Hor._
=Laudatur ab his, culpatur ab illis=--Some praise him, others censure him. _Hor._
=Laudatus abunde, / Non fastiditus si tibi, lector, ero=--Abundantly, reader, shall I be praised if I do not cause thee disgust. _Ovid._
=Laudem virtutis necessitati damus=--We give to necessity the praise of virtue. _Quinct._
=Laudibus arguitur vini vinosus=--He is convicted of being a wine-bibber by his praises of wine. _Hor._
=Laudo Deum verum, plebem voco, congrego= 5 =clerum, / Defunctos ploro, pestem fugo, festa decoro=--I praise the true God, I summon the people, I call together the clergy, I bewail the dead, I put to flight the plague, I celebrate festivals. _Inscription on a church bell._
=Laudo manentem; si celeres quatit / Pennas, resigno quæ dedit, et mea / Virtute me involvo probamque / Pauperiem sine dote quæro=--I praise her (Fortune) while she stays with me; if she flaps her swift pinions, I resign all she has given me, and wrap myself up in my own virtue and pay my addresses to honest undowered poverty. _Hor._
=Laugh and be fat.= _Ben Jonson._
=Laugh at all twaddle about fate. A man's fate is what he makes it, nothing else.= _Anon._
=Laugh at leisure; ye may greet= (weep) =ere nicht.= _Sc. Pr._
=Laugh not too much: the witty man laughs= 10 =least: / For wit is news only to ignorance. / Less at thine own things laugh: lest in the jest / Thy person share, and the conceit advance.= _George Herbert._
=Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, / But vindicate the ways of God to man.= _Pope._
=Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life; sorrow is more confusing and distracting than so-called giddiness.= _Jean Paul._
=Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power, that is all.= _Holmes._
=Laughter, holding both his sides.= _Milton._ 15
=Laughter is akin to weeping, and true humour is as closely allied to pity as it is abhorrent to derision.= _H. Giles._
=Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.= _Leigh Hunt._
=Laughter is the cipher-key wherewith we decipher the whole man.= _Carlyle._
=Laughter leaves us doubly serious shortly after.= _Byron._
=Laughter makes good blood.= _It. Pr._ 20
=Laughter should dimple the cheek, not furrow the brow.= _Feltham._
=Laus Deo=--Praise be to God. _M._
=Laus est facere quod decet, non quod licet=--It is doing what we ought to do, and not merely doing what we may do, that is the ground of praise.
=Laus in proprio ore sordescit=--Self-praise is offensive. _Pr._
=Laus magna natis obsequi parentibus=--Great 25 praise is the meed of children who respect the wishes of their parents. _Phaedr._
=Lavish promises lessen credit.= _Hor._
=Lavishness is not generosity.= _Pr._
=Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder.= _Colton._
=Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.= _Pr._
=Law has her seat in the bosom of God, her= 30 =voice in the harmony of the world.= _Hooker._
=Law is a bottomless pit; keep far from it.= _Pr._
=Law is a lottery.= _Pr._
=Law is not law if it violates the principles of eternal justice.= _L. M. Child._
=Law is powerful, necessity more so.= _Goethe._
=Law it is which is without name, or colour, or= 35 =hands, or feet; which is smallest of the least, and largest of the large; all, and knowing all things; which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet, and seizes without hands.= _Emerson._
=Law licks up a'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Law-makers should not be law-breakers.= _Pr._
=Law, man's sole guardian ever since the day when the old brazen age in sadness saw love fly the world.= _Schiller._
=Law teaches us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.= _Johnson._
=Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.= 40 _A, Hill._
=Lawless are they that make their wills their law.= _Sh._
=Laws act after crimes have been committed; prevention goes before them both.= _Zimmermann._
=Laws and rights are transmitted like an inveterate hereditary disease.= _Goethe._
=Laws are generally found to be nets of such texture as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle size are alone entangled in.= _Shenstone._
=Laws are intended to guard against what= 45 =men may do, not to trust what they will do.= _Junius._
=Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.= _Swift._
=Laws are like spider webs, small flies are ta'en, / While greater flies break in and out again.= _Braithwaite._
=Laws are not made for particular cases, but for men in general.= _Johnson._
=Laws are not made like nets--to catch, but like sea-marks--to guide.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Laws are not masters, but servants, and he= 50 =rules them who obeys them.= _Ward Beecher._
=Laws are not our life, only the house wherein our life is led; nay, they are but the bare walls of the house; all whose essential furniture, the inventions and traditions and daily habits that regulate and support our existence, are the work not of Dracos and Hampdens, but of Phœnician mariners, of Italian masons, and Saxon metallurgists, of philosophers, alchymists, prophets, and the long-forgotten train of artists and artisans, who from the first have been jointly teaching us how to think and how to act, how to rule over spiritual and physical nature.= _Carlyle._
=Laws are the silent assessors of God.= _W. R. Alger._
=Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.= _Louis XIV._
=Laws are the very bulwarks of liberty. They define every man's rights, and stand between and defend the individual liberties of all.= _J. G. Holland._
=Laws are usually most beneficial in operation on the people who would have most strongly objected to their enactment.= _Ruskin._
=Law's costly; tak' a pint and 'gree.= _Sc. Pr._
=Laws exist in vain for those who have not the courage and the means to defend them.= _Macaulay._
=Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the= 5 =law.= _Goldsmith._
=Laws, like cobwebs, catch flies, but let hornets go free.= _Pr._
=Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.= _C. H. Parkhurst._
=Laws should be like death, which spares no one.= _Montesquieu._
=Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.= _Montesquieu._
=Laws were made for rogues.= _It. Pr._ 10
=Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.= _Carlyle._
=Lawyers and painters can soon make black white.= _Pr._
=Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.= _Pr._
=Lawyers are always more ready to get a man into troubles than out of them.= _Goldsmith._
=Lawyers are needful to keep us out of law.= 15 _Pr._
=Lawyers' houses are built of fools' heads.= _Fr. Pr._
=Lawyers, of whose art the basis / Is raising feuds and splitting cases.= _Butler._
=Lawyers' robes are lined with the obstinacy of litigants.= _It. Pr._
=Lawyers will live as long as mine and thine does.= _Ger. Pr._
=Lay by, like ants, a little store, / For summer= 20 =lasts not evermore.= _Pr._
=Lay by something for a rainy day.= _Pr._
=Lay not all the load on the lame horse.= _Pr._
=Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.= _Ham._, iii. 4.
=Lay not thine heart open to every one, but treat of thy affairs with the wise and such as fear God.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Lay the blame at the right door.= _Pr._ 25
=Lay the proud usurpers low! / Tyrants fall in every foe! / Liberty's in every blow! / Forward! let us die.= _Burns._
=Lay thy hand upon thy halfpenny twice before thou partest with it.= _Pr._
=Lay up and lay out should go together.= _Pr._
=Lay up that you may lay out.= _Pr._
=Lazarus did not go to Abraham's bosom because= 30 =he was poor, or every sluggard would go there easily.= _Spurgeon._
=Laziness begins with cobwebs and ends with iron chains.= _Pr._
=Laziness is nothing unless you carry it out.= _Pr._
=Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Lazy as Ludlam's dog, that laid his head against the wall to bark.= _Pr._
=Lazy folks ask for work with their lips, but= 35 =their hearts pray God that they may not find it.= _Creole saying._
=Lazy folk's stomachs don't get tired.= _Uncle Remus._
=Lazy is the hand that ploughs not.= _Gael. Pr._
=Le beau monde=--The fashionable world. _Fr._
=Le bestemmie fanno come le processioni; ritornano donde partirono=--Curses are like processions, they come back to whence they set out. _It. Pr._
=Le bien ne se fait jamais mieux que lorsqu'il= 40 =opère lentement=--Good is never more effectually done than when it is produced slowly. _Fr. Pr._
=Le bon sens vulgaire est un mauvais juge quand il s'agit des grandes choses=--Good common-sense is a bad judge when it is a question of high matters. _Renan._
=Le bon temps viendra=--The good time will come. _M._
=Le bonheur de l'homme en cette vie ne consiste pas à être sans passions, il consiste à en être le maître=--The happiness of man in this life does not consist in being devoid of passions, but in mastering them. _Fr._
=Le bonheur des méchants comme un torrent s'écoule=--The happiness of the wicked passes away like a brook. _Racine._
=Le bonheur des peuples dépend et de la félicité= 45 =dont ils jouissent au dedans et du respect qu'ils inspirent au dehors=--The welfare of nations depends at once on the happiness which they enjoy at home and the respect which they command abroad. _Helvetius._
=Le bonheur et le malheur des hommes ne dépendent pas moins de leur humeur que de la fortune=--The happiness and unhappiness of men depend as much on their dispositions as on fortune. _La Roche._
=Le bonheur n'est pas chose aisée; il est très-difficile de le trouver en nous, et impossible de le trouver ailleurs=--Happiness is no easy matter; it is very hard to find it within ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere. _Chamfort._
=Le bonheur ne peut être / Où la vertu n'est pas=--Happiness cannot exist where virtue is not. _Quinault._
=Le bonheur ou le malheur vont ordinairement à ceux qui ont le plus de l'un ou de l'autre=--Good fortune or bad generally falls to those who have the greatest share of either. _La Roche._
=Le bonheur semble fait pour être partagé=--Happiness 50 seems appointed to be shared. _Racine._
=Le bruit est si fort, qu'on n'entend pas Dieu tonner=--The noise (of things) is so deafening that we cannot hear God when He thunders. _Fr. Pr._
=Le bruit est pour le fat, la plainte est pour le sot, / L'honnête homme trompé s'éloigne et ne dit mot=--Blustering is for the fop, whimpering for the fool; the sensible man when deceived goes off and says nothing. _Lanoue._
=Le chemin est long du projet à la close=--The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment. _Molière._
=Le ciel me prive d'une épouse qui ne m'a jamais donné d'autre chagrin que celui de sa mort=--Heaven bereaves me of a spouse who never caused me any other vexation than by her death. _Louis XIV. of his wife._
=Le citoyen peut périr, et l'homme rester=--The citizen may perish and man remain. _Montesquieu._
=Le cœur a ses raisons, que la raison ne connoit pas=--The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. _Pascal._
=Le cœur de l'homme n'est jamais si inflexible que son esprit=--The heart of man is never so inflexible as his intellect. _Lamartine._
=Le cœur d'une femme est un vrai miroir qui= 5 =reçoit toutes sortes d'objets sans s'attacher à aucun=--The heart of woman is a real mirror, which reflects every object without attaching itself to any. _Fr._
=Le congrès ne marche pas; il danse=--The Congress does not advance; it dances. _The Prince de Ligne of the Vienna Congress._
=Le conquérant est craint, le sage est estimé, / Mais le bienfaiteur plait, et lui seul est aimé=--The conqueror is held in awe, the sage is esteemed, but it is the benevolent man who wins our affections and is alone beloved. _Fr._
=Le conseil manque à l'âme, / Et le guide au chemin=--The soul wants counsel, and the road a guide. _Fr._
=Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires, ou des personnes, est souvent la vérité=--The converse of what is currently reported about things and people is often the truth. _La Bruyère._
=Le contrat du gouvernement est tellement dissous= 10 =par despotisme que le despot n'est le maître qu'aussi long temps qu'il est le plus fort; et que si tôt qu'on peut l'expulser, il n'a point à réclaimer contre la violence=--The contract of government is so dissolved by despotism, that the despot is master only so long as he is the strongest, and that as soon as there is power to expel him, he has no right to protest against the violent proceeding. _Rousseau._
=Le corps politique, aussi bien que le corps de l'homme, commence à mourir dès sa naissance, et porte en lui-même les causes de sa destruction=--The body politic, like the body of man, begins to die as soon as it is born, and bears within it the seeds of its own dissolution. _Rousseau._
=Le cose non sono come sono, ma come si vedono=--Things are not as they are, but as they are regarded. _It. Pr._
=Le courage est souvent un effet de la peur=--Courage is often an effect of fear. _Fr. Pr._
=Le coûte en ôte le goût=--The cost takes away from the relish. _Fr. Pr._
=Le cri d'un peuple heureux est la seule éloquence= 15 =qui doit parler des rois=--The acclaim of a happy people is the only eloquence which ought to speak in the behalf of kings.
=Le crime fait la honte, et non pas l'échafaud=--It is the crime that's the disgrace, not the scaffold. _Corneille._
=Le désespoir comble non seulement notre misère, mais notre faiblesse=--Despair gives the finishing blow not only to misery, but to weakness. _Vauvenargues._
=Le désespoir redouble les forces=--Despair doubles our powers. _Fr. Pr._
=Le despotisme tempéré par l'assassinat, c'est notre Magna Charta=--Despotism tempered by assassination is our Magna Charta. _A Russian noble to Count Münster on the murder of the Czar Paul._
=Le dessous des cartes=--The lower side of the 20 cards. _Fr._
=Le devoir, c'est l'âme intérieure, c'est la vie de l'éducation=--Duty is the inner soul, the life of education. _Michelet._
=Le devoir des juges est de rendre justice, leur métier est de la différer; quelques uns savent leur devoir, et font leur métier=--The duty of judges is to administer justice, but their practice is to delay it; some of them know their duty, but adhere to the practice. _La Bruyère._
=Le diable était beau quand il était jeune=--The devil was handsome when he was young. _Fr. Pr._
=Le divorce est le sacrement de l'adultère=--Divorce is the sacrament of adultery.
=Le doute s'introduit dans l'âme qui rêve, la foi= 25 =descend dans l'âme qui souffre=--Doubt insinuates itself into a soul that is dreaming; faith comes down into one that struggles and suffers.
=Le droit est au plus fort en amour comme en guerre, / Et la femme qu'on aime aura toujours raison=--Right is with the strongest in love as in war, / And the woman we love will always be right. _A. de Musset._
=Le feu qui semble éteint souvent dort dans la cendre=--The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers in the ashes. _Corneille._
=Le génie c'est la patience=--Genius is just patience. _Fr. Pr._
=Le génie n'est autre chose qu'une grande aptitude à la patience=--Genius is nothing else than a sovereign capacity for patience. _Buffon._
=Le géologue est un nouveau genre d'antiquaire=--The 30 geologist is a new species of antiquarian. (?)
=Le gouvernement représentatif est la justice organisée, la raison vivante, la morale armée=--Representative government is justice organised, reason in living action, and morality armed. _Royer Collard._
=Le grand art de la supériorité, c'est de saisir les hommes par leur bon côté=--The great art of superiority is getting hold of people by their right side. _Mirabeau._
=Le grand monarque=--The grand monarch, Louis XIV.
=Le grandeur et le discernement sont des choses différentes, et l'amour pour la vertu, et pour les vertueux une troisième chose=--High rank and discernment are two different things, and love for virtue and for virtuous people is a third thing. _La Bruyère._
=Le hasard donne les pensées; le hazard les= 35 =ôte: point d'art pour conserver ni pour acquérir=--Chance suggests thoughts; changes deprive us of them: there is no rule for preserving or acquiring them. _Pascal._
=Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence=--Chance is a nickname for Providence. _Chamfort._
=Le jeu est le fils de l'avarice et le père du désespoir=--Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair. _Fr. Pr._
=Le jeu n'en vaut pas la chandelle=--The game is not worth the candle. _Fr. Pr._
=Le jour viendra=--The day will come. _M._
=Le masque tombe, l'homme reste / Et le héros s'évanouit=--The mask falls off, the man remains, and the heroic vanishes. _J. B. Rousseau._
=Le mauvais métier que celui de censeur=--A bad business that of censor. _Guy Patin._
=Le méchant n'est jamais comique=--A bad man is never amusing. _De Maistre._
=Le médicin Tant-pis et le médicin Tant-mieux=--The pessimist and the optimist (_lit._ Doctor So-much-the-worse and Doctor So-much-the-better). _La Fontaine._
=Le mérité est souvent un obstacle à la fortune;= 5 =c'est qu'il produit toujours deux mauvais effets, l'envie et la crainte=--Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear. _Fr._
=Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien=--Better is the enemy of well. _Fr. Pr._
=Le moindre grain de mil serait bien mieux mon affaire=--The smallest grain of millet would serve my needs better. _La Fontaine, "The Cock and the Pearl."_
=Le moineau en la main vaut mieux que l'oie qui vole=--A sparrow in the hand is worth a goose on the wing. _Fr. Pr._
=Le monde, chère Agnès, est une étrange chose=--The world, dear Agnes, is a queer concern. _Molière._
=Le monde est le livre des femmes=--The world 10 is the book of women. _Rousseau._
=Le monde est plein de fous, et qui n'en veut pas voir / Doit se tenir tout seul et casser son miroir=--The world is full of madmen, and he who would not see one must keep himself quite alone and break his looking-glass.
=Le monde paye d'ingratitude=--The world pays with ingratitude. _Fr. Pr._
=Le monde savant=--The learned world. _Fr._
=Le mort est le dernier trait du tableau de la vie=--Death is the finishing touch in the picture of life. _Fr._
=Le mot de l'énigme=--The key to the riddle. _Fr._ 15
=Le moy est haïssable=--Egotism is hateful. _Pascal._
=Le moyen le plus sûr de se consoler de tout ce qui peut arriver, c'est de s'attendre toujours au pire=--The surest way to console one's self against whatever may happen is always to expect the worst. _Fr._
=Le nombre des élus au Parnasse est complet=--The list of the elect of Parnassus is made up. (?)
=Le nombre des sages sera toujours petit=--The wise will always be few in number.
=Le parjure est une vertu, / Lorsque le serment= 20 =fut un crime=--Perjury is a virtue when the oath was a crime. _Voltaire._
=Le pas=--Precedence in place or rank. _Fr._
=Le pays du mariage a cela de particulier, que les étrangers ont envie de l'habiter, et les habitans naturels voudroient en être exilés=--The land of matrimony possesses this peculiarity, that strangers to it would like to dwell in it, and the natural inhabitants wish to be exiled. _Montaigne._
=Le pédant et l'instituteur disent à peu près les mêmes choses; mais le premier les dit à tout propos: le second ne les dit que quand il est sûr de leur effet=--The pedant and the teacher say nearly the same things; but the former on every occasion, the latter only when he is sure of their effect. _Rousseau._
=Le petit monde=--The lower orders. _Fr._
=Le peuple anglais pense être libre; il ne l'est= 25 =que durant l'élection des membres du parlement=--The English think they are free; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament. _Rousseau._
=Le peuple est le cœur du pays=--The people is the heart of a country. _Lamartine._
=Le peuple ne comprend que ce qu'il sent. Les seuls orateurs pour lui sont ceux qui l'émeuvent=--The people understand only what they feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them. _Lamartine._
=Le plaisir le plus délicat est de faire celui d'autrui=--The most exquisite pleasure consists in promoting the pleasures of others. _La Bruyère._
=Le plus âne des trois n'est pas celui qu'on pense=--The greatest ass of the three is not the one who seems so. _La Fontaine, "The Miller, his Son, and his Ass."_
=Le plus dangereux ridicule des vieilles personnes= 30 =qui sont aimables, c'est d'oublier qu'elles ne le sont plus=--For old people, however estimable, to forget that they are no longer estimable is to expose themselves to certain ridicule. _La Roche._
=Le plus lent à promettre est toujours le plus fidèle à tenir=--He who is slow in promising is always the most faithful in performing. _Rousseau._
=Le plus sage est celui qui ne pense point l'être=--The wisest man is he who does not think he is so. _Boileau._
=Le plus semblable aux morts meurt le plus à regret=--He who most resembles the dead dies with most reluctance. _La Fontaine._
=Le plus véritable marque d'être né avec de grandes qualités, c'est d'être né sans envie=--The sure mark of being born with noble qualities is being born without envy. _La Roche._
=Le premier écu est plus difficile à gagner que= 35 =le second million=--The first five shillings are harder to win than the second million. _Fr. Pr._
=Le premier soupir de l'amour est le dernier de la sagesse=--The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom. _Charron._
=Le présent est gros de l'avenir=--The present is big with coming events. _Leibnitz._
=Le présent est pour ceux qui jouissent, l'avenir pour ceux qui souffrent=--The present is for those who enjoy, the future for those who suffer. _Fr._
=Le public! combien faut-il de sots pour faire un public?=--The public! How many fools must there be to make a public? _Chamfort._
=Le réel est étroit, le possible est immense=--The 40 real is limited, the possible is unlimited. _Lamartine._
=Le refus des louanges est souvent un désir d'être loué deux fois=--The refusal of praise often proceeds from a desire to have it repeated.
=Le repos est une bonne chose, mais l'ennui est son frère=--Repose is a good thing, but ennui is his brother. _Voltaire._
=Le reste ne vaut pas l'honneur d'être nommé=--The rest don't deserve to be mentioned. _Corneille._
=Le roi est mort; vive le roi!=--The king is dead; long live the king! _The form of announcing the death of a French king._
=Le roy et l'état=--The king and the state. _M._ 45
=Le roi le veut=--The king wills it. _The formula of royal assent in France._
=Le roi régne et ne gouverne pas=--The king reigns but does not govern. _Thiers at the accession of Louis Philippe._
=Le roi s'avisera=--The king will consider it. _The form of a royal veto in France._
=Le sage entend à demi-mot=--A hint suffices for a wise man. _Fr. Pr._
=Le sage quelquefois évite le monde de peur d'être ennuyé=--The wise man sometimes shuns society from fear of being bored. _La Bruyère._
=Le sage songe avant que de parler à ce qu'il= 5 =doit dire; le fou parle, et ensuite songe à ce qu'il a dit=--A wise man thinks before he speaks what he ought to say; the fool speaks and thinks afterwards what he has said. _Fr. Pr._
=Le savoir faire=--Knowing how to act; ability.
=Le savoir vivre=--Knowing how to live; good manners.
=Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire=--The secret of boring people is saying all that can be said on a subject. _Voltaire._
=Le sens commun est le génie de l'humanité=--Common sense is the genius of humanity. _Goethe._
=Le sentiment de la liberté est plus vif, plus il= 10 =y entre de malignité=--The passion for liberty is the keener the greater the malignity associated with it. _Fr._
=Le silence du peuple est la leçon des rois=--The silence of the people is a lesson to kings. _M. de Beauvais._
=Le silence est l'esprit des sots, / Et l'une des vertus du sage=--Silence is the wit of fools, and one of the virtues of the wise man. _Bonnard._
=Le silence est la vertu de ceux qui ne sont pas sages=--Silence is the virtue of those who want it. _Bouhours._
=Le silence est le parti le plus sûr pour celui qui se défie de soi-même=--Silence is the safest course for the man who is diffident of himself. _La Roche._
=Le soleil ni la mort ne se peuvent regarder= 15 =fixement=--Neither the sun nor death can be looked at fixedly. _La Roche._
=Le sort fait les parents, le choix fait les amis=--It is to chance we owe our relatives, to choice our friends. _Delille._
=Le style est l'homme même=--The style is the man himself. _Buffon._
=Le superflu, chose très-nécessaire=--The superfluous, a thing highly necessary. _Voltaire._
=Le temps est un grand maître, il régle bien les choses=--Time is a great master; it regulates things well. _Corneille._
=Le temps guérit les douleurs et les querelles,= 20 =parcequ'on change, on n'est plus la même personne=--Time heals our griefs and wranglings, because we change, and are no longer the same. _Pascal._
=Le temps n'épargne pas ce qu'on fait sans lui=--Time preserves nothing that has been done without her, _i.e._, that has taken no time to do. _Favolle._
=Le tout ensemble=--The whole together. _Fr._
=Le travail du corps délivre des peines de l'esprit; et c'est ce qui rend les pauvres heureux=--Bodily labour alleviates the pains of the mind, and hence arises the happiness of the poor. _La Roche._
=Le travail éloigne de nous trois grand maux, l'ennui, le vice, et le besoin=--Labour relieves us from three great evils, ennui, vice, and want. _Fr._
=Le trépas vient tout guérir; / Mais ne bougeons= 25 =d'où nous sommes: / Plutôt souffrir que mourir, / C'est la devise des hommes=--Death comes to cure everything, but let us not stir from where we are. "Endure sooner than die," is the proper device for man. _La Fontaine._
=Le trident de Neptune est le sceptre du monde=--The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the world. _Lemierre._
=Le vesciche galleggiano sopre aqua, mentre le cose di peso vanno al fondo=--Bladders swim on the surface of the water, while things of weight sink to the bottom. _It. Pr._
=Le vivre et le couvert, que faut-il davantage?=--Life and good fare, what more do we need? _La Fontaine, "The Rat in Retreat."_
=Le vrai mérite ne dépend point du temps ni de la mode=--True merit depends on neither time nor mode. _Fr. Pr._
=Le vrai moyen d'être trompé, c'est de se croire= 30 =plus fin que les autres=--The most sure way to be imposed on is to think one's self cleverer than other people. _La Roche._
=Le vrai n'est pas toujours vraisemblable=--The true is not always verisimilar. _Fr. Pr._
=Le vrai peut quelquefois n'être pas vraisemble=--What is true may sometimes seem unlike truth. _Boileau._
=Lead, kindly light, amid th' encircling gloom, / Lead thou me on.= _Newman._
=Lead thine own captivity captive, and be Cæsar within thyself.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=Leal heart leed never.= _Sc. Pr._ 35
=Lean liberty is better than fat slavery.= _Pr._
=Lean not upon a broken reed, which will not only let thee fall, but pierce thy arm too.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Lean, rent, and beggared by the strumpet wind!= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 6.
=Learn a craft while you are young, that you may not have to live by craft when you are old.= _Pr._
=Learn never to repine at your own misfortunes,= 40 =or to envy the happiness of another.= _Addison._
=Learn of the little nautilus to sail, / Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale.= _Pope._
=Learn taciturnity; let that be your motto.= _Burns._
=Learn that nonsense is none the less nonsense because it is in rhyme; and that rhyme without a purpose or a thought that has not been better expressed before is a public nuisance, only to be tolerated because it is good for trade.= _C. Fitzhugh._
=Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.= _Lavater._
=Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a= 45 =more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in--a real, not an imaginary--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.= _Carlyle to students._
=Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth so far as it makes us of benefit to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.= _Plutarch._
=Learn to creep before you leap.= _Pr._
=Learn to hold thy tongue. Five words cost Zacharias forty weeks' silence.= _Fuller._
=Learn to labour and to wait.= _Longfellow._
=Learn to say before you sing.= _Pr._ 5
=Learn to say No! and it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.= _Spurgeon._
=Learn wisdom from the follies of others.= _Pr._
=Learn you a bad habit, an' ye'll ca'd a custom.= _Sc. Pr._
=Learn young, learn fair; / Learn auld, learn mair.= _Sc. Pr._
=Learned fools are the greatest of all fools.= 10 _Ger. Pr._
=Learned Theban.= _Lear_, iii. 4.
=Learned without sense and venerably dull.= _Churchill._
=Learning by study must be won, / 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.= _Gay._
=Learning hath gained most by those books by which printers have lost.= _Fuller._
=Learning hath its infancy, when it is almost= 15 =childish; then its youth, when luxurious and juvenile; then its strength of years, when solid; and lastly its old age, when dry and exhaust.= _Bacon._
=Learning is a companion on a journey to a strange country.= _Hitopadesa._
=Learning is a dangerous weapon, and apt to wound its master if it is wielded by a feeble hand, and by one not well acquainted with its use.= _Montaigne._
=Learning is a livelihood.= _Hitopadesa._
=Learning is a sceptre to some, a bauble to others.= _Pr._
=Learning is a superior sight.= _Hitopadesa._ 20
=Learning is an addition beyond / Nobility of birth; honour of blood, / Without the ornament of knowledge, is / A glorious ignorance.= _Shirley._
=Learning is better than hidden treasure.= _Hitopadesa._
=Learning is better worth than house or land.= _Crabbe._
=Learning is but an adjunct to ourself; / And, where we are, our learning likewise is.= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 3.
=Learning is not to be tacked to the mind, but= 25 =we must fuse and blend them together, not merely giving the mind a slight tincture, but a thorough and perfect dye.= _Montaigne._
=Learning is pleasurable, but doing is the height of enjoyment.= _Novalis._
=Learning is strength inexhaustible.= _Hitopadesa._
=Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar, of science.= _Sterne._
=Learning is the source of renown, and the fountain of victory in the senate.= _Hitopadesa._
=Learning itself, received into a mind / By= 30 =nature weak or viciously inclined, / Serves but to lead philosophers astray, / Where children would with ease discern the way.= _Cowper._
=Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly devoid of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purpose of sense and happiness.= _Shenstone._
=Learning, like the lunar beam, affords light, not heat.= _Young._
=Learning makes a man a fit companion for himself.= _Pr._
=Learning makes a man wise, but a fool is made all the more a fool by it.= _Pr._
=Learning needs rest; sovereignty gives it.= 35 =Sovereignty needs counsel; learning affords it.= _Ben Jonson._
=Learning once made popular is no longer learning.= _Johnson._
=Learning passes for wisdom among them who want both.= _Sir W. Temple._
=Learning puffeth men up; words are but wind, and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.= _Swift._
=Learning to a man is a name superior to beauty.= _Hitopadesa._
=Learning to the inexperienced is a poison.= 40 _Hitopadesa._
=Learning without thought is labour lost.= _Pr._
=Least said is soonest mended.= _Pr._
=Leave a jest when it pleases you best.= _Pr._
=Leave a man to his passions, and you leave a wild beast of a savage and capricious nature.= _Burke._
=Leave a welcome behind you.= _Pr._ 45
=Leave all piggies' ears alone rather than seize upon the wrong one.= _Spurgeon._
=Leave all things to a Father's will, / And taste, before him lying still, / Even in affliction, peace.= _Anstice._
=Leave all to God, / Forsaken one, and stay thy tears!= _Winkworth._
=Leave Ben Lomond where it stands.= _Sc. Pr._
=Leave her to heaven, / And to those thorns= 50 =that in her bosom lodge, / To prick and sting her.= _Ham._, i. 5.
=Leave it if you cannot mend it.= _Pr._
=Leave not the meat to gnaw the bones, / Nor break your teeth on worthless stones.= _Pr._
=Leave off no clothes / Till you see a June rose.= _Pr._
="Leave off your fooling and come down, sir."= _Oliver Cromwell._
=Leave the court ere the court leave you.= 55 _Sc. Pr._
=Leave the great ones of the world to manage their own concerns, and keep your eyes and observations at home.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Leave this keen encounter of our wits, / And fall somewhat into a slower method.= _Rich. III._, i. 2.
=Leave to-morrow till to-morrow.= _Pr._
=Leave to the diamond its ages to grow, nor expect to accelerate the births of the eternal.= _Emerson._
=Leave well alone.= _Pr._ 60
=Leave you your power to draw, / And I shall have no power to follow you.= _Mid. Night's Dream_, ii. 2.
=Leaves enough, but few grapes.= _Pr._
=Leaves have their time to fall, / And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, / And stars to set; but all, / Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O death!= _Mrs. Hemans._
=Leaving for gleaner makes farmer no leaner.= _Pr._
=Lebe, wie du, wenn du stirbst, / Wünschen wirst, gelebt zu haben=--Live, as you will wish to have lived when you come to die. _Gellert._
=Leben athme die bildende Kunst, / Geist fordr' ich vom Dichter=--Let painting and sculpture breathe life; it is spirit itself I require of the poet. _Schiller._
=Leben heisst träumen: weise sein heisst= 5 =angenehm träumen=--To live is to dream, to be wise is to dream agreeably. _Schiller._
=Leberide cæcior=--Blinder than a serpent's slough. _Pr._
=Led by illusions romantic and subtle deceptions of fancy, / Pleasure disguised as duty, and love in the semblance of friendship.= _Longfellow._
=Leeze me o' drink; it gies us mair / Than either school or college; / It kindles wit, it waukens lair= (learning), / =It pangs= (stuffs) =us fu' o' knowledge.= _Burns._
=Legant prius et postea despeciant=--Let them read first, and despise afterwards. _Lope de Vega._
=Legatus a latere=--An extraordinary Papal ambassador. 10
=Lege totum si vis scire totum=--Read the whole if you wish to know the whole.
=Legem brevem esse oportet quo facilius ab imperitis teneatur=--A law ought to be short, that it may be the more easily understood by the unlearned. _Sen._
=Leges ad civium salutem, civitatumque incolumitatem conditæ sunt=--Laws were framed for the welfare of citizens and the security of states. _Cic._
=Leges bonæ malis ex moribus procreantur=--Good laws are begotten of bad morals. _Pr._
=Leges mori serviunt=--Laws are subordinate to 15 custom. _Plaut._
=Leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant=--Later statutes repeal prior contrary ones. _L._
=Leges sunt inventæ quæ cum omnibus semper una atque eadem voce loquerentur=--Laws are so devised that they may always speak with one and the same voice to all. _Cic._
=Legimus ne legantur=--We read that others may not read. _Lactantius._
=Legis constructio non facit injuriam=--The construction of the law does injury to no man. _L._
=Legum ministri magistratus, legum interpretes= 20 =judices; legum denique idcirco omnes servi sumus, ut liberi esse possimus=--The magistrates are the ministers of the laws, the judges their interpreters; we are all, in short, servants of the laws, that we may be free men. _Cic._
=Leib und Seele schmachten in hundert Banden, die unzerreissbar sind, aber auch in hundert andern, die ein einziger Entschluss zerreisst=--Body and soul languish under a hundred entanglements from which there is no deliverance, but also in hundreds of others which a single resolution can snap away. _Feuchtersleben._
=Leicht zu sättigen ist, und unersättlich, die Liebe=--Love is at once easy to satisfy and insatiable. _Rückert._
=Leichter trägt, was er trägt, / Wer Geduld zur Bürde legt=--He bears what he bears more lightly who adds patience to the burden. _Logau._
=Leisure and solitude are the best effect of riches, because mother of thought. Both are avoided by most rich men, who seek company and business, which are signs of their being weary of themselves.= _Sir W. Temple._
=Leisure for men of business, and business for= 25 =men of leisure, would cure many complaints.= _Mrs. Thrale._
=Leisure is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction except in solitude.= _Zimmermann._
=Leisure is the reward of labour.= _Pr._
=Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain; the lazy man never.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Lend, hoping for nothing again.= _Bible._
=Lend only what you can afford to lose.= 30 _Pr._
=Length of saying makes languor of hearing.= _J. Roux._
=Lenior et melior fis, accedente senecta=--You become milder and better as old age advances. _Hor._
=Leniter ex merito quidquid patiare ferendum est, / Quæ venit indigne pœna dolenda venit=--Whatever you suffer deservedly should be borne with resignation; the penalty that comes upon us undeservedly comes as a matter of just complaint. _Ovid._
=Lenity is part of justice.= _Joubert._
=Lenity will operate with greater force, in some= 35 =instances, than rigour. It is, therefore, my first wish to have my whole conduct distinguished by it.= _G. Washington._
=Leonem larva terres=--You frighten a lion with a mask. _Pr._
=Leonina societas=--Partnership with a lion.
=Leonum ora a magistris impune tractantur=--The mouths of lions are with impunity handled by their keepers. _Sen._
=Leporis vitam vivit=--He lives the life of a hare, _i.e._, always full of fear. _Pr._
=Lern' entbehren, O Freund, / Beut Trotz dem= 40 =Schmerz und dem Tode, / Und kein Gott des Olymps fühlet sich freier, als du=--Learn to dispense with things, O friend, bid defiance to pain and death, and no god on Olympus breathes more freely than thou. _Bürger._
=Lerne vom Schlimmsten Gutes, und Schlimmes nicht vom Besten=--Learn good from the worst, and not bad from the best. _Lavater._
=Les affaires? c'est bien simple: c'est l'argent des autres=--Business? That's easily defined: it is other people's money. _Dumas fils._
=Les affaires font les hommes=--Business makes men. _Fr._
=Les amertumes sont en morale ce que sont les amers en médicine=--Afflictions are in morals what bitters are in medicine. _Fr._
=Les âmes privilégiées rangent à l'égal des= 45 =souverains=--Privileged souls rank on a level with princes. _Frederick the Great._
=Les amis, ces parents que l'on se fait soi-même=--Friends, those relations that we make ourselves.
=Les amis de mes amis sont mes amis=--My friends' friends are my friends. _Fr. Pr._
=Les anglais s'amusent tristement=--The English have a heavy-hearted way of amusing themselves. _Sully._
=Les beaux esprits se rencontrent=--Great wits draw together. _Fr. Pr._
=Les belles actions cachées sont les plus estimables=--The acts that we conceal are regarded with the highest esteem. _Pascal._
=Les biens mal acquis s'en vont à vau-l'eau=--Wealth ill acquired soon goes (_lit._ goes with the stream). _Fr. Pr._
=Les biens viennent, les biens s'en vont, /= 5 =Comme la fumée, comme toute chose=--Wealth comes and goes like smoke, like everything. _Bret. Pr._
=Les bras croisés=--Idle (_lit._ the arms folded). _Fr._
=Les cartes sont brouillées=--A fierce dissension has arisen (_lit._ the cards are mixed).
=Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source=--Things are always best at their source. _Pascal._
=Les cloches appellent à l'église, mais n'y entrent pas=--The bells call to church, but they do not enter. _Fr. Pr._
=Les consolations indiscrètes ne font qu'aigrir= 10 =les violentes afflictions=--Consolation indiscreetly pressed only aggravates the poignancy of the affliction. _Rousseau._
=Les délicats sont malheureux, / Rien ne saurait les satisfaire=--The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them. _La Fontaine._
=Les enfants sont ce qu'on les fait=--Children are what we make them. _Fr. Pr._
=Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie=--The envious will die, but envy never will. _Molière._
=Les esprits médiocres condamnent d'ordinaire tout ce qui passe leur portée=--Men of limited intelligence generally condemn everything that is above their power of understanding. _La Roche._
=Les extrêmes se touchent=--Extremes meet. 15 _Mercier._
=Les femmes ont toujours quelque arrière-pensée=--Women have always some mental reservation. _Destouches._
=Les femmes ont un instinct céleste pour le malheur=--Women have a divine instinctive feeling for misfortune. _Fr._
=Les femmes peuvent tout, parcequ'elles gouvernent les personnes qui gouvernent tout=--Women can accomplish everything, because they govern those who govern everything. _Fr. Pr._
=Les femmes sont extrêmes: elles sont meilleures ou pires que les hommes=--Women indulge in extremes; they are always either better or worse than men. _La Bruyère._
=Les gens qui ont peu d'affaires, sont de très= 20 =grands parleurs=--People who have little to do are excessive talkers. _Fr._
=Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux=--Still people are dangerous. _La Fontaine._
=Les girouettes qui sont placées le plus haut, tournent le mieux=--Weathercocks placed on the most elevated stations turn the most readily. _Fr. Pr._
=Les grandes âmes ne sont pas celles qui ont moins de passions et plus de vertus que les âmes communes, mais celles seulement qui ont de plus grands desseins=--Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than common souls, but those only who have greater designs. _La Roche._
=Les grands et les petits ont mêmes accidents, et mêmes fâcheries et mêmes passions, mais l'un est au haut de la roue et l'autre près du centre, et ainsi moins agité par les mêmes mouvements=--Great and little are subject to the same mischances, worries, and passions, but one is on the rim of the wheel and the other near the centre, and so is less agitated by the same movements. _Pascal._
=Les grands hommes ne se bornent jamais dans= 25 =leurs desseins=--Great men never limit themselves to a circumscribed sphere of action. _Bouhours._
=Les grands hommes sont non-seulement populaires: ils donnent la popularité à tout ce qu'ils touchent=--Great men are not only popular themselves; they give popularity to whatever they touch. _Fournier._
=Les grands ne sont grands que parceque nous sommes à genoux; relevons-nous!=--The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise up. _Quoted by Prudhomme._
=Les grands noms abaissent, au lieu d'élever ceux qui ne les savent pas soutenir=--High titles lower, instead of raising, those who know not how to support them. _La Roche._
=Les grands seigneurs ont des plaisirs, le peuple a de la joie=--High people have pleasures, common people have joy. _Montesquieu._
=Les haines sont si longues et si opiniâtres,= 30 =que le plus grand signe de mort dans un homme malade, c'est la réconciliation=--The passion of hatred is so long-lived and obstinate a malady, that the surest prognostic of death in a sick man is his desire for reconciliation. _La Bruyère._
=Les hommes extrêmement heureux et les hommes extrêmement malheureux, sont également portés à la dureté=--Men extremely happy and men extremely unhappy are alike prone to become hard-hearted. _Montesquieu._
=Les hommes font les lois, les femmes font les mœurs=--Men make the laws, women the manners. _Guibert._
=Les hommes fripons en détail sont en gros de très honnêtes gens=--Men who are knaves severally are in the mass highly honourable people. _Montesquieu._
=Les hommes ne sont justes qu'envers ceux qu'ils aiment=--Men are just only to those they love. _Fr._
=Les hommes sont cause que les femmes ne= 35 =s'aiment point=--It is on account of the men that the women do not love each other. _La Bruyère._
=Les hommes sont rares=--Men are rare. _Fr. Pr._
=Les honneurs changent les mœurs=--Honours change manners. _Fr. Pr._
=Les honneurs coutent à qui veut les posséder=--Honours are dearly bought by whoever wishes to possess them. _Fr. Pr._
=Les jeunes gens disent ce qu'ils font, les vieillards ce qu'ils ont fait, et les sots ce qu'ils ont envie de faire=--Young people talk of what they are doing, old people of what they have done, and fools of what they have a mind to do. _Fr._
=Les jours se suivent et ne se ressemblent pas=--The 40 days follow, but are not like each other. _Fr. Pr._
=Les magistrates, les rois n'ont aucune autorité sur les âmes; et pourvu qu'on soit fidèle aux lois de la société dans ce monde, ce n'est point à eux de se mêler de ce qu'on deviendra dans l'autre, où ils n'ont aucune inspection=--Rulers have no authority over men's souls; and provided we are faithful to the laws of society in this world, it is no business of theirs to concern themselves with what may become of us in the next, over which they have no supervision. _Rousseau._
=Les maladies viennent à cheval, retournent à pied=--Diseases make their attack on horseback, but retire on foot. _Fr._
=Les malheureux qui ont de l'esprit trouvent des resources en eux-mêmes=--Men of genius when under misfortune find resources within themselves. _Bouhours._
=Les maximes des hommes décèlent leur cœur=--Men show what they are by their maxims. _Vauvenargues._
=Les méchants sont toujours surpris de trouver= 5 =de l'habilité dans les bons=--Wicked men are always surprised to discover ability in good men. _Vauvenargues._
=Les médiocrités croient égaler le génie en dépassant la raison=--Men of moderate abilities think to rank as geniuses by outstripping reason. _Lamartine._
=Les mœurs du prince contribuent autant à la liberté que les lois=--The manners of the prince conduce as much to liberty as the laws. _Montesquieu._
=Les mœurs se corrompent de jour en jour, et on ne saurait plus distinguer les vrais d'avec les faux amis=--Our manners are daily degenerating, and we can no longer distinguish true friends from false. _Fr._
=Les moissons, pour mûrir, ont besoin de rosée, / Pour vivre et pour sentir, l'homme a besoin des pleurs=--Harvests to ripen have need of dew; man, to live and to feel, has need of tears. _A. de Musset._
=Les mortels sont égaux; ce n'est point la naissance, /= 10 =C'est la seule vertu qui fait la différence=--All men are equal; it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference. _Voltaire._
=Les murailles= (or =murs=) =ont des oreilles=--Walls have ears. _Fr. Pr._
=Les passions personelles se lassent et s'usent; les passions publiques jamais=--Private passions tire and exhaust themselves; public ones never. _Lamartine._
=Les passions sont les seuls orateurs qui persuadent toujours=--The passions are the only orators which always convince us. _La Roche._
=Les passions sont les vents qui enflent les voiles du vaisseau; elles le submergent quelquefois, mais sans elles il ne pourrait voguer=--The passions are the winds that fill the sails of the ship; they sometimes sink it, but without them it could not make any way. _Voltaire._
=Les passions sont les vents qui font aller notre= 15 =vaisseau, et la raison est le pilote qui le conduit; le vaisseau n'irait point sans les vents, et se perdrait sans le pilote=--The passions are the winds which propel our vessel; our reason is the pilot that steers her; without winds the vessel would not move; without pilot she would be lost. _Fr._
=Les petits chagrins rendent tendre; les grands, dur et farouche=--Slight troubles render us tender; great ones make us hard and unfeeling. _André Chénier._
=Les peuples une fois accoutumés à des maîtres ne sont plus en état de s'en passer=--People once accustomed to masters are no longer able to dispense with them. _Rousseau._
=Les plaisirs sont amers si tôt qu'on en abuse=--Pleasures become bitter as soon as they are abused. _Fr. Pr._
=Les plus grands crimes ne coutent rien aux ambitieux, quand il s'agit d'une couronne=--The greatest crimes cause no remorse in an ambitious man when a crown is at stake. _Fr._
=Les plus grands hommes d'une nation sont= 20 =ceux qu'elle met à mort=--The greatest men of a nation are those whom it puts to death. _Renan._
=Les plus malheureux osent pleurer le moins=--Those who are most wretched dare least give vent to their grief. _Fr._
=Les querelles ne dureraient pas longtemps, si le tort n'était que d'un côté=--Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side. _La Roche._
=Les races se féminisent=--Races are becoming effeminate. _Fr._
=Les républiques finissent par le luxe; les monarchies par la pauvreté=--Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. _Montesquieu._
=Les rivières sont des chemins qui marchent=--Rivers 25 are moving roads. _Pascal._
=Les sophistes ont ébranlé l'autel, mais ce sont les prêtres qui l'ont avili=--The sophists have shaken the altar, but it is the priests that have disgraced it. _Regnault de Waren._
=Les sots depuis Adam sont en majorité=--Ever since Adam's time fools have been in the majority. _Delavigne._
=Les talents sont distribués par la nature, sans égard aux généalogies=--Talents go by nature, not by birth. _Frederick the Great._
=Les utopies ne sont souvent que des vérités prématuriées=--Utopias are often only premature truths. _Lamartine._
=Les vérités sont des fruits qui ne doivent être= 30 =cueillis que bien mûrs=--Truths, like fruits, ought not to be gathered until they are quite ripe, _i.e._, till the time is ripe for them. _Fr. Pr._
=Les vers sont enfants de la lyre; / Il faut les chanter, non les lire=--Verses are children of the lyre; they must be sung, not read. _Fr._
=Les vertus se perdent dans l'intérêt comme les fleuves se perdent dans la mer=--Our virtues lose themselves in our interests, as the rivers lose themselves in the ocean. _La Roche._
=Les vieillards aiment à donner de bons préceptes, pour se consoler de n'être plus en état de donner de mauvais exemples=--Old men like to give good precepts, to make amends for being no longer able to set bad examples. _La Roche._
=Les vieilles coutumes sont les bonnes coutumes=--The old customs are the good customs. _Bret. Pr._
=Les vieux fous sont plus fous que les jeunes=--Old 35 fools are more foolish than young ones. _La Roche._
=Les villes sont le gouffre de l'espèce humaine=--Towns are the sink of our race. _Rousseau._
=Lèse-majesté=--High-treason. _Fr._
=Leser, wie gefall' ich dir? / Leser, wie gefällst du mir?=--Reader, how please I thee? Reader, how pleasest thou me? _M._
=Less in rising into lofty abstractions lies the difficulty, than in seeing well and lovingly the complexities of what is at hand.= _Carlyle._
=Less of your courtesy and more of your purse.= _Pr._
=Less of your honey and more of your honesty.= 5 _Pr._
=Lessons hard to learn are sweet to know.= _Pr._
=Lessons of wisdom have never such power over us as when they are wrought into the heart through the groundwork of a story which engages the passions.= _Sterne._
=Lessons of wisdom open to our view / In all life's varied scenes of gay or gloomy hue.= _De Bosch._
=Let a good pot have a good lid.= _Pr._
=Let a hoard always be made, but not too= 10 =great a hoard.= _Hitopadesa._
=Let a horse drink when he will, not what he will.= _Pr._
=Let a man be a man, and a woman a woman.= _Pr._
=Let a man be but born ten years sooner or ten years later, his whole aspect and performance shall be different.= _Goethe._
=Let a man believe in God, and not in names, places, and persons.= _Emerson._
=Let a man do his work; the fruit of it is the= 15 =care of Another than he.= _Carlyle._
=Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good; let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth.= _Buddha._
=Let a saint be ever so humble, he will have his wax taper.= _Dan. Pr._
=Let a woman once give you a task, and you are hers, heart and soul; all your care and trouble lend new charms to her for whose sake they are taken.= _Jean Paul._
=Let ae deil ding= (beat) =anither.= _Sc. Pr._
=Let all things be done decently and in order.= 20 _St. Paul._
=Let anger's fire be slow to burn.= _Pr._
=Let another do what thou wouldst do.= _Pr._
=Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.= _Bible._
=Let another's shipwreck be your beacon.= _Pr._
=Let any man compare his present fortune= 25 =with the past, and he will probably find himself, upon the whole, neither better nor worse than formerly.= _Goldsmith._
=Let authors write for glory or reward; / Truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.= _Bp. Corbet._
=Let but the mirror be clear, this is the great point; the picture must and will be genuine.= _Carlyle._
=Let but the public mind once become thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty, or life by mere force of laws written on parchment will be as vain as putting up printed notices in an orchard to keep off canker-worms.= _Hor. Mann._
=Let byganes be byganes, / Wha's huffed at anither, / Dinna cloot the auld days / And the new anes thegither; / Wi' the fauts and the failings / O' past years be dune, / Wi a grip o' fresh freen'ship / A New-Year begin.= _M. W. Wood._
=Let charity be warm if the weather be cold.= 30 _Pr._
=Let dogs delight to bark and bite, / For God hath made them so.= _Watts._
=Let each tailor mend his own coat.= _Pr._
=Let every bird sing its own note.= _Dan. Pr._
=Let every eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.= _Much Ado_, ii. 1.
=Let every fox take care of his own brush.= 35 _Pr._
=Let every herring hang by its own tail.= _Irish Pr._
=Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.= _St. Paul._
=Let every man come to God in his own way.= _Ward Beecher._
=Let every man do what he was made for.= _Pr._
=Let every man praise the bridge he goes over.= 40 _Pr._
=Let every minute be a full life to thee.= _Jean Paul._
=Let every one inquire of himself what he loveth, and he shall resolve himself of whence he is a citizen.= _S. Augustine._
=Let every one look to himself, and no one will be lost.= _Dut. Pr._
=Let every tailor keep to his goose.= _Pr._
=Let every thought too, soldier-like, be= 45 =stripped, / And roughly looked over.= _P. J. Bailey._
=Let ev'ry man enjoy his whim; / What's he to me or I to him?= _Churchill._
=Let fate do her worst; there are moments of joy, / Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy; / Which come in the nighttime of sorrow and care, / And bring back the features that joy used to wear.= _Moore._
=Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me, / I have a soul that, like an ample shield, / Can take in all, and verge enough for more.= _Dryden._
=Let fouk bode weel, and strive to do their best; / Nae mair's required; let Heaven mak' out the rest.= _Allan Ramsay._
=Let gleaners glean, though crops be lean.= 50 _Pr._
=Let go desire, and thou shalt lay hold on peace.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Let go quarrel and contention, nor embroil thyself in trouble and differences by being over-solicitous in thy own defence.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with following it; but the great one that goes up the hill, let him draw thee after.= _Lear_, ii. 4.
=Let grace our selfishness expel, / Our earthliness refine.= _Gurney._
=Let her= (woman) =make herself her own, / To= 55 =give or keep, to live, and learn, and be, / All that not harms distinctive womanhood.= _Tennyson._
=Let Hercules himself do what he may, / The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.= _Ham._, v. 1.
=Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink; / So may he cease to write, and learn to think.= _Prior._
=Let him count himself happy who lives remote from the gods of this world.= _Goethe._
=Let him tak' his fling, and find oot his ain wecht= (weight). _Sc. Pr._
=Let him that does not know you buy you.= 5 _Pr._
=Let him that earns eat.= _Pr._
=Let him that stole steal no more; but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.= _St. Paul._
=Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.= _St. Paul._
=Let him who gives say nothing, and him who receives speak.= _Port. Pr._
=Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or= 10 =uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest thee," which thou knowest to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.= _Carlyle._
=Let him who has hold of the devil keep hold of him; he is not likely to catch him a second time in a hurry.= _Goethe._
=Let him who is reduced to beggary first try every one and then his friend.= _It. Pr._
=Let him who is well off stay where he is.= _Pr._
=Let him who knows not how to pray go to sea.= _Pr._
=Let him who sleeps too much borrow the pillow= 15 =of a debtor.= _Sp. Pr._
=Let him who would move and convince others be first moved and convinced himself. Let a man but speak forth with genuine earnestness the thought, the emotion, the actual condition of his own heart, and other men, so strangely are we all knit together by the tie of sympathy, must and will give heed to him.= _Carlyle._
=Let him who would write heroic poems make his life a heroic poem.= _Milton._
=Let ilka ane soop= (sweep) =before his ain door.= _Sc. Pr._
=Let it be your first care not to be in any man's debt.= _Johnson._
=Let it not be grievous to thee to humble and= 20 =submit thyself to the capricious humours of men with whom thou conversest in this world, but rather ... endure patiently whatever they shall, but should not, do to thee.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must necessarily be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures, to enjoy others infinitely greater.= _Pascal._
=Let John Bull beware of John Barleycorn.= _Pr._
=Let justice guide your feet.= _Hipparchus._
=Let knowledge grow from more to more, / But more of reverence in us dwell.= _Tennyson._
=Let man be noble, helpful, and good, for that= 25 =alone distinguishes him from every other creature we know.= _Goethe._
=Let man's own sphere confine his view.= _Beattie._
=Let May be oot= (out) =before you cast a cloot= (a piece of clothing). _Sc. Pr._
=Let me be cruel, not unnatural; / I will speak daggers to her, but use none. / My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=Let me die to the sounds of the delicious music.= _Last words of Mirabeau._
=Let me have men about me that are fat; /= 30 =Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights; / Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look; / He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=Let me have no lying; it becomes none but tradesmen.= _Winter's Tale_, iv. 3.
=Let me keep from vice myself, and pity it in others.= _Goldsmith._
=Let me make the ballads of a people, and I care not who makes the laws.= _Quoted by Fletcher of Saltoun._
=Let me play the fool; / With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, / And let my liver rather heat with wine / Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 1.
=Let me say amen betimes, lest the devil cross= 35 =my prayers.= _Mer. of Ven._, iii. 1.
=Let me still take away the harms I fear, / Not fear still to be taken.= _Lear_, i. 4.
=Let me tell the adventurous stranger, / In our calmness lies our danger; / Like a river's silent running, / Stillness shows our depth and cunning.= _Durfey._
=Let me warn you very earnestly against scruples.= _Johnson._
=Let men know that they are men, created by God, responsible to God, who work in any meanest moment of time what will last through eternity.= _Carlyle's version of John Knox's gospel to the Scotch._
=Let men laugh when you sacrifice desire to= 40 =duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.= _Theodore Parker._
=Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.= _M. Aurelius._
=Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass, / But still remember what the Lord hath done.= 2 _Hen. VI._, ii. 1.
=Let never maiden think, however fair, / She is not finer in new clothes than old.= _Tennyson._
=Let no complaisance, no gentleness of temper, no weak desire of pleasing on your part, no wheedling, coaxing, nor flattery on other people's, make you recede one jot from any point that reason and prudence have bid you pursue.= _Chesterfield._
=Let no man be called happy before his death.= 45 _Solon._
=Let no man doubt the omnipotence of nature, doubt the majesty of man's soul; let no lonely unfriended son of genius despair. If he have the will, the right will, then the power also has not been denied him.= _Carlyle._
=Let no man measure by a scale of perfection the meagre product of reality.= _Schiller._
=Let no man think he is loved by any man, when he loves no man.= _Epictetus._
=Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.= _Young._
=Let no man value at a little price a virtuous woman's counsel.= _George Chapman._
=Let no mean spirit of revenge tempt you to throw off your loyalty to your country, and to prefer a vicious celebrity to obscurity crowned with piety and virtue.= _Sydney Smith._
=Let no one so conceive of himself as if he were the Messiah the world was praying for.= _Goethe._
=Let no one think that he can conquer the first impressions of his youth.= _Goethe._
=Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy;= 5 =even love unreturned has its rainbow.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Let nobility and virtue keep company, for they are nearest of kin.= _William Penn._
=Let none admire / That riches grow in hell; that soil may best / Deserve the precious bane.= _Milton._
=Let none henceforth seek needless cause t' approve / The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek / Such proof, conclude they then begin to fail.= _Milton._
=Let none presume / To wear an undeservéd dignity.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 9.
=Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast= 10 =himself as he that putteth it off.= _Bible._
=Let not man tempt the gods, or ever desire to pry into what they graciously conceal under a veil of darkness or terror.= _Schiller._
=Let not mercy and truth forsake thee.= _Bible._
=Let not mirth turn to mischief.= _Pr._
=Let not my bark in calm abide, / But win her cheerless way against the chafing tide.= _Keble._
=Let not one enemy be few, nor a thousand= 15 =friends many, in thy sight.= _Heb. Pr._
=Let not one look of fortune cast you down; / She were not fortune if she did not frown; / Such as do braveliest bear her scorns awhile / Are those on whom at last she most will smile.= _Orrery._
=Let not plenty make you dainty.= _Pr._
=Let not poverty part good company.= _Pr._
=Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honour and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.= _Emerson._
=Let not the grass grow on the path of friendship.= 20 _American-Indian Pr._
=Let not the remembrance of thy former trials discourage thee.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Let not the sun go down upon your wrath=, _i.e._, let it set with the sun, or, as Ruskin suggests, let it never go down so long as the wrong is there. _St. Paul._
=Let not thine heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.= _Bible._
=Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.= _Jesus._
=Let not your money become your master.= _Pr._ 25
=Let not your mouth swallow you.= _Pr._
=Let not your sail be bigger than your boat.= _Ben Jonson._
=Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory.= _St. Paul._
=Let nothing in excess be done; with this let all comply.= _Anon._
=Let observation, with extensive view, / Survey= 30 =mankind, from China to Peru; / Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, / And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.= _Johnson._
=Let our finger ache, and it endues / Our other healthful members ev'n to that sense / Of pain.= _Othello_, iii. 4.
=Let pleasure be ever so innocent, the excess is always criminal.= _St. Evremond._
=Let present rapture, comfort, ease, / As heaven shall bid them, come and go; / The secret this of rest below.= _Keble._
=Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.= _Chapman, Jonson, and Marston._
=Let prideful priests do battle about creeds, /= 35 =The Church is mine that does most Christ-like deeds.= _Prof. Blackie._
=Let prudence number o'er each sturdy son, / Who life and wisdom at one race begun.= _Burns._
=Let rumours be, when did not rumours fly?= _Tennyson._
=Let sleeping dogs lie.= _Sc. Pr._
=Let still the woman take / An elder than herself; so wears she to him, / So sways she level in her husband's heart; / For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, / Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, / More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn / Than women's are.= _Twelfth Night_, ii. 4.
=Let such teach others who themselves excel, /= 40 =And censure freely who have written well.= _Pope._
=Let that which is lost be for God.= _Sp. Pr._
=Let the angry person always have the quarrel to himself.= _Rev. John Clark._
=Let the best horse leap the hedge first.= _Pr._
=Let the cobbler stick to his last.= _Pr._
=Let the dainty rose awhile / Her bashful fragrance= 45 =hide; / Rend not her silken veil too soon, / But leave her, in her own soft noon, / To flourish and abide.= _Keble._
=Let the dead bury their dead=, _i.e._, let the spiritually dead bury the bodily dead. _Jesus._
=Let the devil catch you by a hair, and you are his for ever.= _Lessing._
=Let the devil get into the church, and he will soon be on the altar.= _Ger. Pr._
=Let the foibles of the great rest in peace.= _Goldsmith._
=Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung.= 50 _Ham._, iii. 2.
=Let the great book of the world be your principal study.= _Chesterfield._
=Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change.= _Tennyson._
=Let the matter be good, and let the manner befit it.= _Spurgeon._
=Let the night come before we praise the day.= _Pr._
=Let the path be open to talent.= _Napoleon._ 55 _See La Carrière._
=Let the reader have seen before he attempts to oversee.= _Carlyle._
=Let the road be rough and dreary, / And its end far out of sight, / Foot it bravely! strong or weary, / "Trust in God, and do the right."= _Dr. Norman Macleod._
=Let the shoemaker stick to his last, the peasant to his plough, and let the prince understand how to rule.= _Goethe._
=Let the thing we do be what it will, it is the principle upon which we do it that must recommend it.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Let the tow= (rope) =gang wi' the bucket.= _Sc. Pr._
=Let the world slide, let the world go; / A fig for care, and a fig for woe! / If I can't pay, why, I can owe, / And death makes equal the high and low.= _Heywood._
=Let the world wag.= _Pr._
=Let the young people mind what the old people= 5 =say, / And where there is danger keep out of the way.= _Pr._
=Let them call it mischief; / When it is past and prosper'd it will be virtue.= _Ben Jonson._
=Let them obey that know not how to rule.= 2 _Hen. VI._, v. 1.
=Let there be thistles, there are grapes; / If old things, there are new; / Ten thousand broken lights and shapes, / Yet glimpses of the true.= _Tennyson._
=Let thine eyes look right on.= _Bible._
=Let this be an example for the acquisition of= 10 =all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.= _Hitopadesa._
=Let those have night that love the night.= _Quarles._
=Let those who believe in immortality enjoy their belief in silence, and give themselves no airs about it.= _Goethe._
=Let those who hope for brighter shores no more, / Not mourn, but turning inland, bravely seek / What hidden wealth redeems the shapeless shore.= _Eugene Lee Hamilton._
=Let thy alms go before, and keep heaven's gate / Open for thee, or both may come too late.= _George Herbert._
=Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and= 15 =the second will be what thou wilt.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion, sway.= _Twelfth Night_, iv. 1.
=Let thy great deeds force fate to change her mind; / He that courts fortune boldly, makes her kind.= _Dryden._
=Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting where, / And when, and how thy business may be done, / Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, / Though he alights sometimes, still goeth on.= _George Herbert._
=Let thy mind's sweetness have his operation / Upon thy body, clothes, and habitation.= _George Herbert._
=Let thy words be few.= _Bible._ 20
=Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.= _Montaigne._
=Let us approach our friend with an audacious trust in the truth of his heart, in the breadth, impossible to be overturned, of his foundations.= _Emerson._
=Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas, / Which He hath given for fence impregnable, / And with these helps only defend ourselves; / In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies.= 3 _Hen. VI._, iv. 1.
=Let us be content in work / To do the thing we can, and not presume / To fret because it's little.= _E. B. Browning._
=Let us be men with men, and always children= 25 =before God.= _Joubert._
=Let us be poised, and wise, and our own to-day.= _Emerson._
=Let us be silent, for so are the gods.= _Emerson._
=Let us beware that our rest become not the rest of stones, which, so long as they are torrent-tossed and thunder-stricken, maintain their majesty; but when the stream is silent and the storm passed, suffer the grass to cover them and the lichen to feed upon them, and are ploughed down into dust.= _Ruskin._
=Let us do the work of men while we bear the form of them.= _Ruskin_
=Let us endeavour to see things as they are,= 30 =and then inquire whether we ought to complain.= _Johnson._
=Let us enjoy the cloven flame whilst it glows on our walls.= _Emerson._
=Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.= _Victor Hugo._
=Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.= _Lincoln._
=Let us have the crisis; we shall either have death or the cure.= _Carlyle._
=Let us know what to love, and we shall know= 35 =also what to reject; what to affirm, and we shall know also what to deny; but it is dangerous to begin with denial and fatal to end with it.= _Carlyle._
=Let us learn upon earth those things that can call us to heaven.= _St. Jerome._
=Let us leave the question of origins to those who busy themselves with insoluble problems, and have nothing better to do.= _Goethe._
=Let us make haste to live, since every day to a wise man is a new life.= _Sen._
=Let us march intrepidly wherever we are led by the course of human accidents. Where-ever they lead us, on what coasts soever we are thrown by them, we shall not find ourselves absolutely strangers.= _Bolingbroke._
=Let us not burden our remembrances with /= 40 =A heaviness that's gone.= _The Tempest_, v. 1.
=Let us not make imaginary evils when we have so many real ones to encounter.= _Goldsmith._
=Let us not strive to rise too high, that we may not fall too low.= _Schiller._
=Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity.= _Johnson._
=Let us th' important "now" employ, / And live as those who never die.= _Burns._
=Let us, then, be up and doing, / With a heart= 45 =for every fate; / Still achieving, still pursuing, / Learn to labour and to wait.= _Longfellow._
=Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things / Keep ourselves loyal to truth and the sacred professions of friendship.= _Longfellow._
=Let us try what esteem and kindness can effect.= _Johnson._
=Let vain men pursue vanity; leave them to their own methods.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, / But leave us still our old nobility.= _Lord J. Manners._
=Let wealth shelter and cherish unprotected merit, and the gratitude and celebrity of that merit will richly repay it.= _Burns._
=Let whatever you are and whatever you do, grow out of a firm root of truth and a strong soil of reality.= _Prof. Blackie._
=Let Whig and Tory stir their blood; / There must be stormy weather; / But for some true result of good, / All parties work together.= _Tennyson._
=Let woman learn betimes to serve according= 5 =to her destination, for only by serving will she at last learn to rule, and attain the influence that belongs to her in the household.= _Goethe._
=Let women spin, not preach.= _Pr._
=Let your daily wisdom of life be in making a good use of the opportunities given you.= _Prof. Blackie._
=Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but let them feel, at the same time, the steadiness of your just resentment.= _Chesterfield._
=Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.= _Hor._
=Let your pen fail, begin to trifle with blotting-paper,= 10 =look at the ceiling, bite your nails, and otherwise dally with your purpose, and you waste your time, scatter your thoughts, and repress the nervous energy necessary for your task.= _G. H. Lewes._
=Let your purse be your master.= _Pr._
=Let your reason with your choler question.... To climb steep hills / Requires slow pace at first.= _Hen. VIII._, i. 1.
=Let your rule in reference to your social sentiments be simply this; pray for the bad, pity the weak, enjoy the good, and reverence both the great and the small, as playing each his part aptly in the divine symphony of the universe.= _Prof. Blackie._
=Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how to answer every man.= _St. Paul._
=Let your trouble tarry till its own day comes.= 15 _Pr._
=Let's live with that small pittance which we have; / Who covets more is evermore a slave.= _Herrick._
=Let's not unman each other--part at once; / All farewells should be sudden when for ever, / Else they make an eternity of moments, / And clog the last sad sands of life with tears.= _Byron._
=Let's take the instant by the forward top; / For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees / Th' inaudible and noiseless foot of time / Steals ere we can effect them.= _All's Well_, v. 3.
=Let's teach ourselves that honourable stop, not to out-sport discretion.= _Othello_, ii. 3.
=Letters may be always made out of the books= 20 =of the morning or talk of the evening.= _Johnson._
=Letters of mere compliment, congratulation, or affected condolence, which have cost the authors most labour in composing, never fail of being the most disagreeable and insipid to the readers.= _Blair._
=Letters that are warmly sealed are often coldly opened.= _Jean Paul._
=Letters without virtue are like pearls in a dunghill.= _Cervantes._
=Letting down buckets into empty wells, and growing old with drawing nothing up.= _Cowper._
=Lettres de cachet=--Warrants of imprisonment 25 under royal seal, liberally issued in France before the Revolution.
=Leuk twice or ye loup ance=, _i.e._, look twice before you leap once. _Sc. Pr._
=Leve æs alienum debitorem facit, grave inimicum=--A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy. _Sen._
=Leve fit quod bene fertur onus=--The burden which is cheerfully borne becomes light. _Ovid._
=Leve incommodum tolerandum est=--A slight inconvenience must be endured. _M._
=Leve= (trust) =none better than thyself.= _Hazlitt's_ 30 _Poems._
=Level roads run out from music to every side.= _Goethe._
=Leves homines futuri sunt improvidi=--Light-minded men are improvident of the future. _Tac._
=Levia perpessi sumus, / Si flenda patimur=--Our sufferings are light, if they are merely such as we should weep for.
=Leviores sunt injuriæ, quæ repentino aliquo motu accidunt, quam eæ quæ meditate præparata inferuntur=--The injuries which befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which we are deliberately anticipating. _Cic._
=Levis est dolor qui capere consilium potest=--Grief 35 is light which can take advice. _Sen._
=Levis sit tibi terra=--May the earth lie light on thee.
=Levity is a prettiness in a child, a disgraceful defect in men, and a monstrous folly in old age.= _La Roche._
=Levity is often less foolish, and gravity less wise, than each of them appears.= _Colton._
=Levity of behaviour is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.= _Sen._
=Levius fit patientia / Quicquid corrigere est= 40 =nefas=--Whatever cannot be amended becomes easier to bear if we exercise patience. _Hor._
=Levius solet timere qui propius timet=--A man's fears are lighter when the danger is near at hand. _Sen._
=Lex aliquando sequitur æquitatem=--Law is sometimes according to equity. _L._
=Lex citius tolerare vult privatum damnum quam publicum malum=--The law will sooner tolerate a private loss than a public evil. _Coke._
=Lex neminem cogit ad impossibilia=--The law compels no one to do what is impossible. _L._
=Lex non scripta=--The common law. 45
=Lex prospicit non respicit=--The law is prospective, not retrospective. _L._
=Lex scripta=--The statute law.
=Lex talionis=--The law of retaliation.
=Lex terræ=--The law of the land.
=Lex universa est quæ jubet nasci et mori=--There 50 is a universal law which commands that we shall be born and shall die. _Pub. Syr._
=Liars act like the salt-miners; they undermine the truth, but leave just so much standing as is necessary to support the edifice.= _Jean Paul._
=Liars are always ready to take oath.= _Alfieri._
=Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.= _Epictetus._
=Liars ought to have good memories.= _Sidney._
=Libenter homines id, quod volunt, credunt=--Men are fain to believe what they wish. _Cæsar._
=Libera chiesa in libero stato=--A free church in 5 a free state. _Cavour._
=Libera Fortunæ mors est: capit omnia tellus / Quæ genuit=--Death is not subject to fortune; the earth contains everything which she ever brought forth. _Luc._
=Libera me ab homine malo, a meipso=--Deliver me from the evil man, from myself. _St. Augustine._
=Libera te metu mortis=--Deliver thyself from the fear of death. _Sen._
=Liberality consists less in giving profusely than in giving judiciously.= _La Bruyère._
=Liberality is not giving largely but wisely.= _Pr._ 10
=Libertas=--Liberty. _M._
=Libertas est potestas faciendi id quod jure licet=--Liberty consists in the power of doing what the law permits. _L._
=Libertas in legibus=--Liberty under the laws. _M._
=Libertas, quæ sera, tamen respexit inertem=--Liberty, which, though late, regarded me in my helpless state. _Virg._
=Libertas sub rege pio=--Liberty under a pious 15 king. _M._
=Libertas ultima mundi / Quo steterit ferienda loco=--In the spot where liberty has made her last stand she was fated to be smitten. _Lucan._
=Liberté toute entière=--Liberty perfectly entire. _M._
=Liberty, and not theology, is the enthusiasm of the nineteenth century. The very men who would once have been conspicuous saints are now conspicuous revolutionists, for while their heroism and disinterestedness are their own, the direction which these qualities take is determined by the pressure of the age.= _H. W. Lecky._
=Liberty comes with Christianity, because Christianity develops and strengthens the mass of men.= _Ward Beecher._
=Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome= 20 =restraint.= _Webster._
=Liberty has no actual rights which are not grafted upon justice.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=Liberty has no crueller enemy than license.= _Fr. Pr._
=Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.= _Kossuth._
=Liberty is a slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.= _Emerson._
=Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes= 25 =and its martyrs in almost every age.= _Chapin._
=Liberty is God's gift; liberties are the devil's.= _Ger. Pr._
=Liberty is not idleness; it is an unconstrained use of time. To be free is not to be doing nothing; it is to be one's own master as to what one ought to do or not to do.= _La Bruyère._
=Liberty is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured that men most commonly seek to oblige thee only that they may engage thee to serve them.= _Saadi._
=Liberty is one of the most precious gifts that Heaven has bestowed on man, and captivity is the greatest evil that can befall him.= _Cervantes._
=Liberty is quite as much a moral as a political= 30 =growth, the result of free individual action, energy, and independence.= _S. Smiles._
=Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.= _Montesquieu._
=Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty no happiness can be enjoyed by society.= _Bolingbroke._
=Liberty is to the lowest rank of every nation little more than the choice of working or starving.= _Johnson._
=Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty as well as by the abuse of power.= _Madison._
=Liberty must be a mighty thing, for by it= 35 =God punishes and rewards nations.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.= _Burke._
=Liberty of thinking and expressing our thoughts is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded.= _Hume._
=Liberty raises us to the gods; holiness prostrates us on the ground.= _Amiel._
=Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.= _Washington._
=Liberty will not descend to a people; a people= 40 =must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.= _Colton._
=Liberty, with all its drawbacks, is everywhere vastly more attractive to a noble soul than good social order without it, than society like a flock of sheep, or a machine working like a watch. This mechanism makes of man only a product; liberty makes him the citizen of a better world.= _Schiller._
=Liberum arbitrium=--Free will.
=Libidinosa et intemperans adolescentia effœtum corpus tradit senectuti=--A sensual and intemperate youth transmits to old age a worn-out body. _Cic._
=Libido effrenata effrenatam appetentiam efficit=--Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire. _Pr._
=Libito fè licito=--What pleased her she made law. 45 _Dante._
=Libra justa justitiam servat=--A just balance preserves justice.
=Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of saints full of true virtue, and that without delusion and imposture, are preserved and reposed.= _Bacon._
=Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed, might bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use.= _J. Dyer._
=License they mean when they cry liberty.= _Milton._
=Liceat concedere veris=--We are free to yield to 50 truth. _Hor._
=Licet superbus ambules pecunia, / Fortuna non mutat genus=--Although you strut insolent in your wealth, your fortune does not change your low birth. _Hor._
=Licht und Geist, jenes im Phyischen, dieses im Sittlichen herrschend, sind die höchsten denkbaren untheilbaren Energien=--Light and spirit, the one sovereign in the physical, the other in the moral, are the highest conceivable indivisible potences at work in the universe. _Goethe._
=Licuit, semperque licebit / Parcere personis, dicere de vitiis=--It has ever been, and ever will be, lawful to spare the individual but to censure the vice.
=Lie not in the mire, and say, "God help!"= _Pr._
=Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.= _George Herbert._
=Liebe bleibt die goldne Leiter / Darauf das= 5 =Herz zum Himmel steigt=--Love is ever the golden ladder whereby the heart ascends to heaven. _Geibel._
=Liebe ist die ältest-neuste / Einz'ge Weltbegebenheit=--Love is the oldest-newest sole world-event. _Rückert._
=Liebe kann nicht untergehen; / Was verwest, muss auferstehen=--Love cannot perish; what decays must come to life again. _J. G. Jacobi._
=Liebe kann viel, Geld kann alles=--Love cannot do much; money everything. _Ger. Pr._
=Liebe kennt der allein, der ohne Hoffnung liebt=--He alone knows what love is who loves without hope. _Schiller._
=Liebe ohne Gegenliebe ist wie eine Frage= 10 =ohne Antwort=--Love unreciprocated is like a question without an answer. _Ger. Pr._
=Liebe schwärmet auf allen Wegen; / Treue wohnt für sich allein; / Liebe kommt euch rasch entgegen; / Aufgesucht will Treue sein=--Love ranges about in all thoroughfares; fidelity dwells by herself alone. Love comes to meet you with quick footstep; fidelity will be sought out. _Goethe._
=Liebe ward der Welt von Gott verliehen, / Um zu Gott die Seele zu erziehen=--Love was bestowed on the world by God, in order to train the soul for God. _Rückert._
=Lieber Neid denn Mitleid=--Better envy than pity. _Ger. Pr._
=Lies are like nitro-glycerine--the best of judges can't tell where they are going to burst and scatter confusion.= _Billings._
=Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion= 15 =brings on substance.= _Bacon._
=Lies are the ghosts of truths, the masks of faces.= _J. Sterling._
=Lies have short legs.= _It. and Ger. Pr._
=Lies hunt in packs.= _Pr._
=Lies may be acted as well as spoken.= _Pr._
=Lies, mere show and sham, and hollow superficiality= 20 =of all kinds, which is at the best a painted lie, avoid.= _Prof. Blackie to young men._
=Lies need a great deal of killing.= _Pr._
=Lies that are half true are the worst of lies.= _Pr._
=Life abounds in cares, in thorns, and woes; many tears flow visibly, although many more are unseen.= _Antoni Malazeski._
=Life admits not of delays.= _Johnson._
=Life alone can rekindle life.= _Amiel._ 25
=Life, as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence where it comes upon soundings.= _Holmes._
=Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humoured and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.= _Goldsmith._
=Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for vicissitudes.= _Goethe._
=Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.= _Johnson._
=Life every man holds dear; but the brave= 30 =man / Holds honour far more precious dear than life.= _Troil. and Cress._, v. 3.
=Life everywhere will swallow a man, unless he rise and try vigorously to swallow it.= _Carlyle._
=Life expresses. A statue has no tongue, and needs none.= (?)
=Life, full life, / Full-flowered, full-fruited, reared from homely earth, / Rooted in duty, ... this is the prize / I hold most dear, more precious than the fruit / Of knowledge or of love.= _Lewis Morris._
=Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion still improves, by observing that the most swift are ever the least manageable, the most apt to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.= _Goldsmith._
=Life has no memory.= _Emerson._ 35
=Life has no pleasure nobler than that of friendship.= _Johnson._
=Life, however short, is made shorter by waste of time; and its progress towards happiness, though naturally slow, is made still slower by unnecessary labour.= _Johnson._
=Life I leave, as I would leave an inn, rather than a home; nature having given it us more as a sort of hostelry to stop at, than as an abiding dwelling-place.= _Cato in Cicero._
=Life in itself is neither good nor evil, but the scene of good or evil, as you make it; and if you have lived one day, you have lived all days.= _Montaigne._
=Life is a campaign, not a battle, and has= 40 =its defeats as well as its victories.= _Donn Piatt._
=Life is a casket, not precious in itself, but valuable in proportion to what fortune, or industry, or virtue has placed within it.= _Landor._
=Life is a comedy to him who thinks, and a tragedy to him who feels.= _Horace Walpole._
=Life is a crucible, into which we are thrown and tried. The actual weight and value of a man are expressed in the spiritual substance of the man; all else is dross.= _Chapin._
=Life is a disease of the spirit; a working incited by passion. Rest is peculiar to the spirit.= _Novalis._
=Life is a disease= (_Krankheit_), =sleep a palliative,= 45 =death the radical cure.= _C. J. Weber._
=Life is a dream and death an awakening.= _Beaumelle._
=Life is a fairy scene: almost all that deserves the name of enjoyment or pleasure is only a charming delusion; and in comes repining age, in all the gravity of hoary wisdom, and wretchedly chases away the bewitching phantom.= _Burns._
=Life is a fortress which neither you nor I know anything about. Why throw obstacles in the way of its defence? Its own means are superior to all the apparatus of your laboratories.= _Emerson._
=Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities, influenced by all that has preceded, and to influence all that follows.= _Channing._
=Life is a jest, and all things show it; / I thought so once, but now I know it.= _Gay._
=Life is a kind of sleep; old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake until they are to die.= _La Bruyère._
=Life is a little gleam of time between two= 5 =eternities.= _Carlyle._
=Life is a long lesson in humility.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Life is a moment between two eternities.= _Channing._
=Life is a plant that grows out of death.= _Ward Beecher._
=Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.= _Johnson._
=Life is a quarantine for Paradise.= _C. J. Weber._ 10
=Life is a rich strain of music suggesting a realm too fair to be.= _G. W. Curtis._
=Life is a scale of degrees. Between rank and rank of our great men are wide intervals.= _Emerson._
=Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated--there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged--that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.= _Emerson._
=Life is a series of surprises, and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.= _Emerson._
=Life is a short day, but it is a working day.= 15 _Hannah More._
=Life is a shuttle.= _The Merry Wives_, v. 1.
=Life is a sincerity. In lucid intervals we say, "Let there be an entrance opened for me into realities; I have worn the fool's cap too long."= _Emerson._
=Life is a sleep, love is a dream, and you have lived if you have loved.= _A. de Musset._
=Life is a stream upon which drift flowers in spring and blocks of ice in winter.= _Joseph Roux._
=Life is a succession of lessons which must be= 20 =lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.= _Emerson._
=Life is a voyage.= _Victor Hugo._
=Life is a warfare.= _Sen._
=Life is a wrestle with the devil, and only the frivolous think to throw him without taking off their coats.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Life is act, and not to do is death.= _Lewis Morris._
=Life is all a variorum; / We regard not how= 25 =it goes; / Let them cant about decorum / Who have characters to lose. / A fig for those by law protected! / Liberty's a glorious feast; / Courts for cowards were erected, / Churches built to please the priest.= _Burns, "Jolly Beggars."_
=Life is an earnest business, and no man was ever made great or good by a diet of broad grins.= _Prof. Blackie._
=Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, / Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.= _King John_, iii. 4.
=Life is as the current spark on the miner's wheel of flints; while it spinneth there is light; stop it, all is darkness.= _Tupper._
=Life is burdensome to us chiefly from the abuse of it.= _Rousseau._
=Life is but a tissue of habits.= _Amiel._ 30
=Life is but another name for action; and he who is without opportunity exists, but does not live.= _G. S. Hillard._
=Life is but thought; so think I will that youth and I are housemates still.= _S. T. Coleridge._
=Life is freedom--life in the direct ratio of its amount.... The smallest candle fills a mile with its rays, and the pupillæ of a man run out to every star.= _Emerson._
=Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky.... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.= _Emerson._
=Life is given us not to enjoy, but to overcome.= 35 _Schopenhauer._
=Life is half spent before we know what life is.= _Fr. Pr._
=Life is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.= _Alex. Smith._
=Life is kindled only by life.= _Jean Paul._
=Life is like wine; he who would drink it pure must not drain it to the dregs.= _Sir W. Temple._
=Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or= 40 =duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what win the heart and secure comfort.= _Sir H. Davy._
=Life is made up, not of knowledge only, but of love also.... The hues of sunset make life great; so the affections make some little web of cottage and fireside populous, important.= _Emerson._
=Life is movement.= _Arist._
=Life is no merrymaking.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=Life is not as idle ore, / But iron dug from central gloom, / And heated hot with burning fears, / And dipt in baths of hissing tears, / And battered with the shocks of doom / To shape and use.= _Tennyson._
=Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy.= 45 =Its chief good is for well-mixed people, who can enjoy what they find without question.= _Emerson._
=Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.= _Johnson._
=Life is not long enough for art, not long enough for friendship.= _Emerson._
=Life is not so short but there is always time enough for courtesy.= _Emerson._
=Life is not the supreme good; but of all earthly ills the chief is guilt.= _Schiller._
=Life is not victory, but battle.= _ R. D. Hitchcock._ 50
=Life is poor when its old faiths are gone, / Poorest when man can trust himself alone.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Life is probation, and this earth no goal, / But starting-point of man.= _Browning._
=Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.= _Franklin._
=Life is ravelled almost ere we wot, / And with our vexing / To disentangle it, we make the knot / But more perplexing, / Embittering our lot.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Life is real, life is earnest.= _Longfellow._
=Life is sacred; but there is something more= 5 =sacred still: woe to him who does not know that withal.= _Carlyle._
=Life is so complicated a game, that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.= _George Eliot._
=Life is so healthful that it even finds nourishment in death.= _Carlyle._
=Life is that which holds matter together.= _Porphyry._
=Life is the art of being well deceived.= _Hazlitt._
=Life is the best thing we can possibly make of= 10 =it.= _G. W. Curtis._
=Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.= _Lowell._
=Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death. What we call life is a journey to death, and what we call death is a passport to life.= _Colton._
=Life is the transmigration of a soul / Through various bodies, various states of being; / New manners, passions, new pursuits in each; / In nothing, save in consciousness, the same.= _Montgomery._
=Life is the triumph of our mouldering clay; death, of the spirit infinite, divine!= _Young._
=Life is to be considered happy, not in warding= 15 =off evil, but in the acquisition of good: and this we should seek for by employment of some kind or by reflection.= _Cic._
=Life is too much for most. So much of age, so little of youth; living, for the most part, in the moment, and dating existence by the memory of its burdens.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Life is too short to waste / In critic peep or cynic bark, / Quarrel or reprimand; / 'Twill soon be dark.= _Emerson._
=Life itself is a bubble and a scepticism, and a sleep within a sleep.= _Emerson._
=Life just the stuff / To try the soul's strength on, educe the man.= _Browning._
=Life lies before us as a huge quarry before= 20 =the architect; and he deserves not the name of architect except when, out of this fortuitous mass, he can combine, with the greatest economy, fitness and durability, some form the pattern of which originated in his own soul.= _Goethe._
=Life lies most open in a closed eye.= _Quarles._
=Life, like a dome of many coloured glass, / Stains the white radiance of eternity.= _Shelley._
=Life, like some cities, is full of blind alleys, leading nowhere; the great art is to keep out of them.= _Bovee._
=Life, like the water of the seas, freshens only when it ascends towards heaven.= _Jean Paul._
=Life may as properly be called an art as any= 25 =other, and the great incidents in it are no more to be considered as mere accidents than the severest members of a fine statue or a noble poem.= _Fielding._
=Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there the whole aspect of things changes.= _Emerson._
=Life only avails, not the having lived.= _Emerson._
=Life outweighs all things, if love lies within it.= _Goethe._
=Life passes through us; we do not possess it.= _Amiel._
=Life protracted is protracted woe, / Time= 30 =hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, / And shuts up all the passages of joy.= _Johnson._
=Life sues the young like a new acquaintance.... To us, who are declined in years, life appears like an old friend.= _Goldsmith._
=Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression: we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.= _Johnson._
=Life, upon the whole, is much more pleasurable than painful, otherwise we should not feel pain so impatiently when it comes.= _Leigh Hunt._
=Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.= _J. G. Holland._
=Life was never a May-game for men; not play= 35 =at all, but hard work, that makes the sinews sore and the heart sore.= _Carlyle._
=Life was spread as a banquet for pure, noble, unperverted natures, and may be such to them, ought to be such to them.= _W. R. Greg._
=Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.= _Emerson._
=Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here?= _Chapin._
=Life with all it yields of joy and woe, / And hope and fear, / Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love, / How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.= _Browning._
=Life without a freend is death wi' a witness.= 40 _Sc. Pr._
=Life without laughing is a dreary blank.= _Thackeray._
=Life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in it.= _Pr._
=Life's a reckoning we cannot make twice over.= _George Eliot._
=Life's a tragedy.= _Raleigh._
=Life's a tumble-about thing of ups and downs.= 45 _Disraeli._
=Life's but a day at most.= _Burns._
=Life's but a means unto an end; that end / Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.= _Bailey._
=Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, / And then is heard no more! It is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.= _Macb._, v. 5.
=Life's ebbing stream on either side / Shows at each turn some mould'ring hope or joy, / The man seems following still the funeral of the boy.= _Keble._
=Life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.= _Byron._
=Life's life ony gate= (at any rate). _Scott._
=Life's no resting, but a moving; / Let thy life be deed on deed.= _Goethe._
=Light another's candle, but don't put out your= 5 =own.= _Pr._
=Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 3.
=Light burdens carried far grow heavy.= _Fr. and Ger. Pr._
=Light cares= (or =griefs=) =speak; great ones are dumb.= _Sen._
=Light flashes in the gloomiest sky, / And music in the dullest plain.= _Keble._
=Light gains make heavy purses, because they= 10 =come thick, whereas the great come but now and then.= _Bacon._
=Light is, as it were, a divine humidity.= _Joubert._
=Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.= _St. John._
=Light is coming into the world; men love not darkness; they do love light.= _Carlyle._
=Light is, in reality, more awful than darkness; modesty more majestic than strength; and there is truer sublimity in the sweet joy of a child, or the sweet virtue of a maiden, than in the strength of Antæus or the thunder-clouds of Ætna.= _Ruskin._
=Light is light, though the blind man doesn't= 15 =see it.= _Ger. Pr._
=Light is no less favourable to merit than unfavourable to imposture.= _H. Home._
=Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.= _Leigh Hunt._
=Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.= _Bible._
=Light is the burden love lays on; / Content and love brings peace and joy, / What mair hae queens upon a throne?= _Burns._
=Light is the symbol of truth.= _Lowell._ 20
=Light not your candle at both ends.= _Pr._
=Light, or, failing that, lightning--the world can take its choice.= _Carlyle._
=Light seeking light doth light of light beguile.= _Love's L. Lost_, i. 1.
=Light suppers mak' lang life.= _Sc. Pr._
=Light that a man receiveth by counsel from= 25 =another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever in his affections and customs.= _Bacon._
=Light that makes things seen makes some things invisible.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=Light visits the hearts, as it does the eyes, of all living.= _Carlyle._
=Light without life is a candle in a tomb; / Life without love is a garden without bloom.= _Pr._
=Lightly come, lightly go.= _Pr._
=Lightning and thunder (heaven's artillery) /= 30 =As harbingers before th' Almighty fly: / Those but proclaim His style, and disappear; / The stiller sounds succeed, and God is there.= _Dryden._
=Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water, and love.= _Heine._
=Like a large heart overflowing with an impotent and vague love, the universe is ceaselessly in the agony of transformation.= _Renan._
=Like a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.= _Pr._
=Like a man do all things, not sneakingly.= _George Herbert._
=Like a morning dream, life becomes more and= 35 =more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear.= _Jean Paul._
=Like a tailor's needle, say, "I go through."= _Pr._
=Like an old woman at her hearth, we warm our hands at our sorrows and drop in faggots, and each thinks his own fire a sun in presence of which all other fires should go out.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Like angels' visits, few and far between.= _Campbell, from Blair._
=Like angels' visits, short and bright; / Mortality's too weak to bear them long.= _J. Norris._
=Like author, like book.= _Pr._ 40
=Like blude, like gude, like age, mak' the happy marriage.= _Sc. Pr._
=Like coalesces in this world with unlike. The strong and the weak, the contemplative and the active, bind themselves together.= _Fr. Robertson._
=Like cures like.= _Pr._
=Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labour and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.= _Burton._
=Like doth quit like, and measure still for= 45 =measure.= _Meas. for Meas._, v. 1.
=Like draws to like, the world over.= _Pr._
=Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.= _Theodore T. Munger._
=Like father, like son.= _Pr._
=Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, / Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; / Another race the following spring supplies; / They fall successive, and successive rise.= _Pope's Homer._
=Like master, like man.= _Pr._ 50
=Like mighty rivers, with resistless force, / The passions rage, obstructed in their course, / Swell to new heights, forbidden paths explore, / And drown those virtues which they fed before.= _Pope._
=Like mistress, like maid.= _Pr._
=Like mother, like daughter.= _Pr._
=Like Niobe, all tears.= _Ham._, i. 2.
=Like other plants, virtue will not grow unless= 55 =its root be hidden, buried from the eye of the sun.= _Carlyle._
=Like our shadows / Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.= _Young._
=Like patience on a monument, / Smiling at grief.= _Twelfth Night_, ii. 4.
=Like priest, like people.= _Pr._
=Like prince, like people.= _Pr._
=Like Scotsmen, aye wise ahint the hand= (after the event). _Pr._
=Like talks best with like, laughs best with like, works best with like, and enjoys best with like; and it cannot help it.= _J. G. Holland._
=Like the air, the water, and everything else in= 5 =the world, the heart too rises the higher the warmer it becomes.= _Cötvös._
=Like the dog in the manger, he will neither eat himself nor let the horse eat.= _Pr._
=Like the hand which ends a dream, / Death, with the might of his sunbeam, / Touches the flesh and the soul awakes.= _Browning._
=Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.= _G. Colman._
=Likely tumbles in the fire, / When unlikely rises higher.= _Pr._
=Limæ labor et mora=--The labour and tediousness 10 of polishing as with a file. _Hor._
=Limit your wants by your wealth.= _Pr._
=Limitations refine as the soul purifies, but the ring of necessity is always perched at the top.= _Emerson._
=Limiting of one's life always conduces to happiness.= _Schopenhauer._
=Lingua mali loquax malæ mentis est indicium=--An evil tongue is the proof of an evil mind. _Pub. Syr._
=Lingua mali pars pessima servi=--His tongue is 15 the worst part of a bad servant. _Juv._
=Lingua melior, sed frigida bello / Dextera=--Excels in speech, but of a right hand slow to war. _Virg._
=Linguæ centum sunt, oraque centum, / Ferrea vox=--It has a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron. _Virg., of Rumour._
=Linguam compescere, virtus non minima est=--To restrain the tongue is not the least of the virtues.
=Linquenda tellus, et domus, et placens / Uxor, neque harum, quas colis, arborum, / Te, præter invisas cupressos, / Ulla brevem dominum sequetur=--Your estate, your home, and your pleasing wife must be left, and of these trees which you are rearing, not one shall follow you, their short-lived owner, except the hateful cypresses. _Hor._
=Lions are not frightened by cats.= _Pr._ 20
=Lions' skins are not to be had cheap.= _Pr._
=Lippen to= (trust) =me, but look to yoursel'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Lips become compressed and drawn with anxious thought, and eyes the brightest are quenched of their fires by many tears.= _S. Lover._
=Lips never err when wisdom keeps the door.= _Delaune._
=Lis litem generat=--Strife genders strife. _Pr._ 25
=List geht über Gewalt-=-Cunning overcomes strength. _Ger. Pr._
=List his discourse of war, and you shall hear / A fearful battle render'd you in music; / Turn him to any cause of policy, / The Gordian Knot of it he will unloose, / Familiar as his garter.= _Hen. V._, i. 1.
=Listen at a hole, and ye'll hear news o' yoursel'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Listeners never hear good of themselves.= _Sp. Pr._
=Lite pendente=--During the lawsuit. 30
=Litem parit lis, noxa item noxam parit=--Strife begets strife, and injury likewise begets injury. _Pr._
=Litera canina=--The canine letter (the letter R).
=Litera occidit, spiritus autem vivificat=--The letter killeth, but the spirit quickeneth. _Vulgate._
=Litera scripta manet, verbum ut inane perit=--Written testimony remains, but oral perishes.
=Literæ Bellerophontis=--A Bellerophon's letter, 35 _i.e._, a letter requesting that the bearer should be dealt with in some summary way for an offence.
=Literæ humaniores=--Polite literature; arts in a university.
=Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, and to whom they are related.= _Heine._
=Literary men are ... a perpetual priesthood.= _Carlyle._
=Literature, as a field for glory, is an arena where a tomb may be more easily found than laurels; as a means of support, it is the very chance of chances.= _H. Giles._
=Literature consists of all the books--and they= 40 =are not many--where moral truth and human passion are touched with a certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form.= _John Morley._
=Literature draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies.= _Lowell._
=Literature happens to be the only occupation in which wages are not given in proportion to the goodness of the work done.= _Froude._
=Literature has her quacks no less than medicine: those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth.= _Colton._
=Literature has other aims than that of harmlessly amusing indolent, languid men.= _Carlyle._
=Literature is a fragment of a fragment, and= 45 =of this but little is extant.= _Goethe._
=Literature is a great staff, but a sorry crutch.= _Scott._
=Literature is fast becoming all in all to us--our church, our senate, our whole social constitution.= _Carlyle._
=Literature is representative of intellect, which is progressive; government is representative of order, which is stationary.= _Buckle._
=Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.= _Tuckerman._
=Literature is the thought of thinking souls.= 50 _Carlyle._
=Literature, like virtue, is its own reward.= _Chesterfield._
=Literature positively has other aims than this of amusing from hour to hour; nay, perhaps this, glorious as it may be, is not its highest or true aim.= _Carlyle._
=Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.= _W. Godwin._
=Literature, when noble, is not easy; only when ignoble. It too is a quarrel and internecine duel with the whole world of darkness that lies without one and within one;--rather a hard fight at times.= _Carlyle._
=Litteræ non erubescunt=--A letter does not blush. _Cic._
=Little and often fills the purse.= _Pr._
=Little bantams are great at crowing.= _Pr._
=Little boats must keep near shore.= _Pr._
=Little bodies have great souls.= _Pr._ 5
=Little by little the little bird builds its nest.= _Pr._
=Little children, little sorrows; big children, great sorrows.= _Pr._
=Little chips light great fires.= _Pr._
=Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, / Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above.= _F. S. Osgood._
=Little dew-drops of celestial melody.= _Carlyle,_ 10 _of Burns' songs._
=Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.= _Bacon._
=Little drops of rain pierce the hard marble.= _Lily._
=Little drops of water, little grains of sand, / Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land. / Thus the little minutes, humble though they be, / Make the mighty ages of eternity.= _F. S. Osgood._
=Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised.= _Pr._
=Little fishes should not spout like whales.= _Pr._ 15
=Little flower--if I could understand / What you are, root and all, and all in all, / I should know what God and man is.= _Tennyson._
=Little folks like to talk about great folks.= _Pr._
=Little gear, less care.= _Sc. Pr._
=Little griefs are loud, great sorrows are silent.= _Pr._
=Little is done when every man is master.= _Pr._ 20
=Little joys refresh us constantly, like house-bread, and never bring disgust; and great ones, like sugar-bread, briefly, and then with satiety.= _Jean Paul._
=Little kingdom is great household, and great household little kingdom.= _Bacon._
=Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes' conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.= _Holmes._
=Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it.= _Washington Irving._
=Little minds are too much wounded by little= 25 =things; great minds see all, and are not even hurt.= _La Roche._
=Little minds, like weak liquors, are soonest soured.= _Pr._
=Little odds between a feast and a fu' wame= (stomach). _Sc. Pr._
=Little of this great world can I speak, / More than pertains to feats of broil and battle; / And, therefore, little shall I grace my cause / In speaking for myself. Yet by your gracious patience, / I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver / Of my whole course of love.= _Othello_, i. 3.
=Little ones are taught to be proud of their clothes before they can put them on.= _Locke._
=Little opportunities should be improved.= 30 _Fenélon._
=Little pigeons can carry great messages.= _Pr._
=Little pigs eat great potatoes.= _Pr._
=Little pitchers have long ears=, _i.e._, children have. _Pr._
=Little pot, / Don't get hot / On the spot.= _Pr._
=Little pots soon boil over.= _Ger. Pr._ 35
=Little souls on little shifts rely.= _Dryden._
=Little strokes fell great oaks.= _Pr._
=Little thieves have iron chains and great thieves gold ones.= _Dut. Pr._
=Little things blame not: Grace may on them wait. / Cupid is little; but his godhead's great.= _Anon._
=Little things please little minds.= _Pr._ 40
=Little troubles are great to little people.= _Pr._
=Little waves with their soft white hands efface the footprints in the sands.= _Longfellow._
=Little wealth, little sorrow.= _Pr._
=Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet.= _Pr._
=Little wrongs done to others are great wrongs= 45 =done to ourselves.= _Pr._
=Littore quot conchæ, tot sunt in amore dolores=--There are as many pangs in love as shells on the sea-shore. _Ovid._
=Littus ama, altum alii teneant=--Hug thou the shore, let others stand out to sea. _Virg._
=Live and learn; and indeed it takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.= _Ruskin._
=Live and let live.= _Pr._
=Live as long as you may, the first twenty= 50 =years are the longest half of your life.= _Southey._
=Live for to-day! to-morrow's light, / Tomorrow's cares shall bring to sight; / Go sleep, like closing flowers, at night, / And Heaven thy morn will bless.= _Keble._
=Live in to-day, but not for to-day.= _Pr._
=Live, live to-day; to-morrow never yet / On any human being rose or set.= _Marsden._
=Live not for yourself alone.= _Pr._
=Live not to eat, but eat to live.= _Pr._ 55
=Live on, brave lives, chained to the narrow round / Of Duty; live, expend yourselves, and make / The orb of Being wheel onward steadfastly / Upon its path--the Lord of Life alone / Knows to what goal of Good; work on, live on.= _Lewis Morris._
=Live on what you have; live if you can on less; do not borrow either for vanity or pleasure--the vanity will end in shame, and the pleasure in regret.= _Johnson._
=Live only a moment at a time.= _Pr._
=Live thou! and of the grain and husk, the grape, / And ivy berry, choose; and still depart / From death to death thro' life and life, and find / Nearer and ever nearer Him, who wrought / Not Matter, nor the finite-infinite, / But this main miracle, that thou art thou, / With power on thine own act and on the world.= _Tennyson._
=Live to learn and learn to live.= _Pr._ 60
=Live upon trust, / And pay double you must.= _Pr._
=Live virtuously, and you cannot die too soon nor live too long.= _Lady R. Russel._
=Live we how we can, yet die we must.= 3 _Hen. VI._, v. 2.
=Live with a singer if you would learn to sing.= _Pr._
=Live with thy century, but be not its creature; produce for thy contemporaries, however, what they need, not what they applaud.= _Schiller._
=Live with your friend as if he might become your enemy.= _Pr._
=Lively feeling of situations, and power to express them, make the poet.= _Goethe._
=Lives of great men all remind us, / We can= 5 =make our lives sublime; / And departing leave behind us / Footprints on the sands of time.= _Longfellow._
=Living religion grows not by the doctrines, but by the narratives of the Bible.= _Jean Paul._
=Living well is the best revenge.= _Pr._
=Lo ageno siempre pia por su dueño=--What is another's always chirps for its master. _Sp. Pr._
=Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.= _Jesus to His disciples._
=Lo que hace el loco á la derreria, hace el sabio= 10 =á la primeria=--What the fool does at length the wise man does at the beginning. _Sp. Pr._
=Lo que no acaece en un año, acaece en un rato=--A thing that may not happen in a year may happen in two minutes. _Sp. Pr._
=Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind / Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; / His soul proud science never taught to stray / Far as the solar walk or milky way; / Yet simple nature to his hope has given, / Behind the cloud-topt hills, a humbler heaven.= _Pope._
=Loan oft loses both itself and friend.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=Loans and debts make worries and frets.= _Pr._
=Loans should come laughing home.= _Pr._ 15
=Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.= _Shakespeare._
=Loaves put awry in the oven come out awry.= _Pr._
=Loci communes=--Topics.
=Lock the stable before you lose the steed.= _Pr._
=Locking the stable door when the steed is= 20 =stolen.= _Pr._
=Loco citato=--In the place quoted.
=Locum tenens=--A deputy or substitute.
=Locus classicus=--A classical passage.
=Locus est et pluribus umbris=--There is room for more introductions. _Hor._
=Locus in quo=--The place in which; the place previously 25 occupied.
=Locus penitentiæ=--Place for repentance.
=Locus sigili=--The place for the seal; pointed out in documents by the letters L.S.
=Locus standi=--Standing in a case; position in an argument.
=Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.= _Joseph Roux._
=Logic works; metaphysic contemplates.= _Joubert._ 30
=Loin de la cour, loin du souci=--Far from court, far from care. _Fr. Pr._
=Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labours in vain.= _Johnson._
=Long experience made him sage.= _Gay._
=Long lent is not given.= _Pr._
=Long talk makes short work.= _Pr._ 35
=Long talking begets short hearing, for people go away.= _Jean Paul._
=Longa est injuria, longæ / Ambages=--Long is the story of her wrongs, tedious the details. _Virg._
=Longa mora est, quantum noxæ sit ubique repertum / Enumerare: minor fuit ipsa infamia vero=--It would take long to enumerate how great an amount of crime was everywhere perpetrated; even the report itself came short of the truth. _Ovid._
=Longe aberrat scopo=--He is wide of the mark; has gone quite out of his sphere.
=Longe absit=--Far be it from me; God forbid. 40
=Longe mea discrepat istis / Et vox et ratio=--Both my language and my sentiments differ widely from theirs. _Hor._
=Longo sed proximus intervallo=--Next, with a long interval between. _Virg._
=Longum iter est per præcepta, breve et efficax per exempla=--The road to learning by precept is long, by example short and effectual. _Sen._
=Look above you, and then look about you.= _Pr._
=Look, as I blow this feather from my face, / And= 45 =as the air blows it to me again / ... Commanded always by the greater gust; / Such is the lightness of you common men.= 3 _Henry VI._, iii. 1.
=Look at home, father priest, mother priest; your church is a hundredfold heavier responsibility than mine can be. Your priesthood is from God's own hands.= _Ward Beecher._
=Look at paintings and fightings from a distance.= _Pr._
=Look at the bright side of a failure as well as the dark.= _Anon._
=Look at your own corn in May, / And you'll come weeping away.= _Pr._
=Look before you leap.= _Pr._ 50
=Look before you, or you'll have to look behind you.= _Pr._
=Look for squalls, but don't make them.= _Pr._
=Look how the floor of heaven / Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; / There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st / But in his motion like an angel sings, / Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims.= _Mer. of Ven._, v. 1.
=Look how we can, or sad or merrily, / Interpretation will misquote our looks.= 1 _Hen. IV._, v. 2.
=Look in the glass when you with anger glow, /= 55 =And you'll confess you scarce yourself would know.= _Ovid._
=Look in thy heart and write.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Look not a gift horse in the mouth.= _Pr._
=Look not mournfully into the past--it comes not back again; wisely improve the present--it is thine; go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.= _Longfellow._
=Look not on pleasures as they come, but go. / Defer not the least virtue; life's poor span / Make not an ell by trifling in thy woe. / If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains; / If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.= _George Herbert._
=Look not to what is wanting in any one; consider that rather which still remains to him.= _Goethe._
=Look out for a people entirely destitute of religion. If you find them at all, be assured that they are but few degrees removed from brutes.= _Hume._
=Look round the habitable world, how few / Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue.= _Dryden, after Juvenal._
=Look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, / Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill.= _Ham._, i. 1.
=Look through a keyhole, and your eye will be= 5 =sore.= _Pr._
=Look to the players; ... / They are the abstract and brief chroniclers of the times.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=Look to thy mouth; diseases enter there.= _George Herbert._
=Look to thyself; reach not beyond humanity.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Look unto those they call unfortunate; / And, closer viewed, you'll find they are unwise.= _Young._
=Look upon every day, O youth, as the whole= 10 =of life, not merely as a section, and enjoy the present without wishing, through haste, to spring on to another.= _Jean Paul._
=Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.= _Marcus Aurelius._
=Lookers-on see more than the players.= _Pr._
=Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world, words with little meaning, actions with little worth, one loves to reflect on the great empire of silence. The noble silent men, scattered here and there each in his department, silently thinking, silently working; whom no morning newspaper makes mention of.= _Carlyle._
=Looking where others looked, and conversing with the same things, we catch the charm which lured them.= _Emerson._
=Looks kill love, and love by looks reviveth.= 15 _Shakespeare._
=Loop'd and window'd raggedness.= _Lear_, iii. 4.
=Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.= _Pr._
=Loquendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut docti=--We should speak as the populace, think as the learned. _Coke._
=Lord, help me through this warld o' care, / I'm weary sick o't late and air; / Not but I hae a richer share / Than mony ithers; / But why should ae man better fare, / And a' men brithers?= _Burns._
=Lord, keep my memory green!= _Dickens._ 20
=Lord of himself, that heritage of woe.= _Byron._
=Lord of himself, though not of lands; having nothing yet hath all.= _Sir Henry Wotton_ (?).
=Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye, / Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, / Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.= _Smollett._
=Lord of thy presence and no land beside.= _King John_, i. 1.
=Lord, we know what we are, but know not= 25 =what we may be.= _Ham._, iv. 5.
=Lorsqu'une pensée est trop faible pour porter une expression simple, c'est la marque pour la rejeter=--When a thought is too weak to bear a simple expression, it is a sign that it deserves rejection. _Vauvenargues._
=Lose the habit of hard labour with its manliness, and then, / Comes the wreck of all you hope for in the wreck of noble men.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Lose thy fun rather than thy friend.= _Pr._
=Losing the bundles gathering the wisps.= _Gael. Pr._
=Losses are comparative, only imagination= 30 =makes them of any moment.= _Pascal._
=Lost time is never found again.= _Pr._
=Lotis manibus=--With clean-washen hands.
=Loud clamour is always more or less insane.= _Carlyle._
=Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true wit or good sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world.= _Chesterfield._
=Loudness is a foe to melody.= _Pr._ 35
=Louer les princes des vertus qu'ils n'ont pas, c'est leur dire impunément des injures=--To praise princes for virtues which they do not possess, is to insult them with impunity. _La Roche._
=Louis ne sut qu'aimer, pardonner et mourir; / Il aurait su régner s'il avait su punir=--Louis (XVI.) knew only how to love, pardon, and die; had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign. _Tilly._
=Love abounds in honey and poison.= _Sp. Pr._
=Love accomplishes all things.= _Petrarch._
=Love all, trust a few, / Do wrong to none; be= 40 =able for thine enemy / Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend / Under thy own life's key; be checked for silence, / But never tax'd for speech.= _All's Well_, i. 1.
=Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.= _B. R. Haydon._
=Love and friendship exclude each other.= _Du Cœur._
=Love and gratitude are seldom found in the same breast without impairing each other ... we cannot command both together.= _Goldsmith._
=Love and light winna hide.= _Sc. Pr._
=Love and lordship like not fellowship.= _Pr._ 45
=Love and poverty are hard to hide.= _Pr._
=Love and pride stock Bedlam.= _Pr._
=Love and religion are both stronger than friendship.= _Disraeli._
=Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.= _Fielding._
=Love and the Soul, working together, might= 50 =go on producing Venuses without end, each different, and all beautiful; but divorced and separated, they may continue producing indeed, yet no longer any being, or even thing, truly godlike.= _Ed._
=Love and trust are the only mother-milk of any man's soul.= _Ruskin._
=Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.= _Emerson._
=Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness.= _Pr._
=Love at two-and-twenty is a terribly intoxicating draft.= _Ruffini._
=Love betters what is best, / Even here below, but more in heaven above.= _Wordsworth._
=Love breaks in with lightning flash: friendship comes like dawning moonlight. Love will obtain and possess; friendship makes sacrifices but asks nothing.= _Geibel._
=Love can do much, but duty still more.= _Goethe._
=Love can hope where reason would despair.= 5 _Lyttleton._
=Love can neither be bought nor sold; its only price is love.= _Pr._
=Love cannot clasp all it yearns for in its bosom, without first suffering for it.= _Ward Beecher._
=Love concedes in a moment what we can hardly attain by effort after years of toil.= _Goethe._
=Love converts the hut into a palace of gold.= _Hölty._
=Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when= 10 =it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence the expression of its yearning tenderness.= _Bovee._
=Love delights to bring her best, / And where love is, that offering evermore is blest.= _Keble._
=Love dies by satiety, and forgetfulness inters it.= _Du Cœur._
=Love divine, all love excelling, / Joy of heaven to earth come down.= _Toplady._
=Love does much, but money does more.= _Pr._
=Love ends with hope: the sinking statesman's= 15 =door / Pours in the morning worshipper no more.= _Johnson._
=Love ever flows downward.= _Quoted by Hare._
=Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, / Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.= _Pope._
=Love, friendship, charity are subjects all / To envious and calumniating time.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 3.
=Love furthers knowledge.= _Pr._
=Love gives itself, and is not bought.= _Longfellow._ 20
=Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books; / But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 2.
=Love has made its best interpreter a sigh.= _Byron._
=Love has no age, as it is always renewing itself.= _Pascal._
=Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights, all the rays emitted from the beloved object, by the burning-glass of fantasy, into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without spots.= _Goethe._
=Love hath a large mantle.= _Pr._ 25
=Love hides ugliness.= _Gael. Pr._
=Love in the heart is better than honey in the mouth.= _Pr._
=Love is a bottomless pit; it is a cormorant--a harpy that devours everything.= _Swift._
=Love is a boy by poets spoiled.= _S. Butler._
=Love is a debt which inclination always pays,= 30 =obligation never.= _Pascal._
=Love is a familiar; love is a devil: there is no evil angel but love. Yet was Samson so tempted, and he had an excellent strength; yet was Solomon so seduced, and he had a very good wit.= _Love's L. Lost_, i. 2.
=Love is a personal debt.= _George Herbert._
=Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance.= _Talleyrand._
=Love is a secondary passion in those who love most, a primary in those who love least. He who is inspired by it in a high degree is inspired by honour in a higher; it never reaches its plenitude of growth and perfection but in the most exalted minds.= _Landor._
=Love is a secret no man knows / Till it within= 35 =his bosom glows.= _Pr._
=Love is a sleep; love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.= _Alfred De Musset._
=Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; / Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; / Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: / What is it else? A madness most discreet, / A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.= _Rom. and Jul._, i. 1.
=Love is a spirit all compact of fire; / Not gross to sink, but light and will aspire.= _Shakespeare._
=Love is a superstition that doth fear the idol which itself hath made.= _Sir T. Overbury._
=Love is a sweet idolatry, enslaving all the soul.= 40 _Tupper._
=Love is an exotic of the most delicate constitution.= _Goldsmith._
=Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image; not one painted on paper, but the living essence of the divine nature, which beams full of all goodness.= _Luther._
=Love is as warm among cottars as courtiers.= _Sc. Pr._
=Love is as warm in fustian as in velvet.= _Pr._
=Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty= 45 =follies that themselves commit.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 6.
=Love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage round his eyes. Blind: yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.= _Emerson._
=Love is deemed the tenderest= (_zärteste_) =of our affections, as even the blind and the deaf know; but I know, what few believe, that true friendship is more tender still.= _Platen._
=Love is eternally awake, never tired with labour, nor oppressed with affliction, nor discouraged by fear.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Love is ever busy with his shuttle, is ever wearing into life's dull warp bright gorgeous flowers and scenes Arcadian.= _Longfellow._
=Love is ever the beginning of knowledge, as= 50 =fire is of light; and works also more in the manner of fire.= _Carlyle._
=Love is ever the gift, the sacrifice of self.= _Canon Liddon._
=Love is full of unbefitting strains; / All wanton as a child, skipping and vain; / Formed by the eye, and therefore, like the eye, / Full of strange shapes, of habits, and of forms, / Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll / To every varied object in his glance.= _Love's L. Lost_, v. 2.
=Love is incompatible with fear.= _Pub. Syr._
=Love is indestructible, / Its holy flame for ever burneth; / From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.= _Southey._
=Love is just another name for the inscrutable presence by which the soul is connected with humanity.= _Simms._
=Love is kin to duty.= _Lewis Morris._
=Love is life's end--an end, but never ending....= 5 =Love is life's wealth; ne'er spent, but ever spending.... Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.= _Spenser._
=Love is like the painter, who, being to draw the picture of a friend having a blemish in one eye, would picture only the other side of his face.= _South._
=Love is loveliest when embalmed in tears.= _Scott._
=Love is merely a madness.= _As You Like It_, iii. 2.
=Love is mightier than indignation.= _Ward Beecher._
=Love is more pleasing than marriage, because= 10 =romances are more amusing than history.= _Chamfort._
=Love is neither bought nor sold.= _Pr._
=Love is never lasting which flames before it burns.= _Feltham._
=Love is not a fire which can be confined within the breast; everything betrays it; and its fires imperfectly covered, only burst out the more.= _Racine._
=Love is not altogether a delirium, yet has it many points in common therewith ... I call it rather a discerning of the Infinite in the Finite, of the Idea made Real; which discerning again may be either true or false, either seraphic or demonic, Inspiration or Insanity.= _Carlyle._
=Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which= 15 =shows us what is most worthy of regard.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds.= _Shakespeare._
=Love is not to be reason'd down or lost / In high ambition or a thirst of greatness.= _Addison._
=Love is old, old as eternity, but not outworn; with each new being born or to be born.= _Byron._
=Love is omnipresent in nature as motive and reward.= _Emerson._
=Love is sparingly soluble in the words of men,= 20 =therefore they speak much of it; but one syllable of woman's speech can dissolve more of it than a man's heart can hold.= _Holmes._
=Love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.= _Bible._
=Love is strongest in pursuit, friendship in possession.= _Emerson._
=Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, manly, and never seeking her own.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Love is the bond which never corrodes.= _Dr. Parker._
=Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness= 25 =of the busy.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Love is the eldest, noblest, and mightiest of the gods, and the chiefest author and giver of virtue in life and happiness after death.= _Plato._
=Love is the greatest thing that God can give us, and it is the greatest we can give God.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=Love is the joining of two souls on their way to God.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Love is the master-key that opens every ward of the heart of man.= _J. H. Evans._
=Love is the most easy and agreeable, and= 30 =gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind.= _Goldsmith._
=Love is the mother of love.= _Pr._
=Love is the occupation of an idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.= _Napoleon._
=Love is the only ink which does not fade.= _Dr. Parker._
=Love is the only memory which strengthens with time.= _Dr. Parker._
=Love is vanity, / Selfish in its beginning as its= 35 =end.= _Byron._
=Love knows nothing of labour.= _It. Pr._
=Love labour; for if thou dost not want it for food, thou may'st for physic.= _Wm. Penn._
=Love laughs at locksmiths.= _Pr._
=Love lessens the woman's refinement and strengthens the man's.= _Jean Paul._
=Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths;= 40 =/ Love laps his wings on either side the heart / ... Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, / So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.= _Tennyson._
=Love lightens labour and sweetens sorrow.= _Pr._
=Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues; / Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.= _Merry Wives_, ii. 2.
=Love, like fire, cannot subsist without continual motion, and ceases to exist as soon as it ceases to hope or fear.= _La Roche._
=Love, like men, dies oftener of excess than hunger.= _Jean Paul._
=Love likes not shallow mirth.= _Dr. Walter_ 45 _Smith._
=Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; / And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.= _Mid. Night's Dream_, i. 1.
=Love makes labour light.= _J. G. Holland._
=Love makes obedience lighter than liberty.= _W. R. Alger._
=Love makes time pass away, and time makes love pass away.= _Fr. Pr._
=Love me little, love me long, / Is the burden of= 50 =my song; / Love that is too hot and strong / Burneth soon to waste; / Still I would not have thee cold, / Not too backward or too bold; / Love that lasteth till 'tis old / Fadeth not in haste.= _Old Ballad._
=Love me, love my dog.= _Pr._
=Love mocks all sorrows but its own, and damps each joy he does not yield.= _Lady Dacre._
=Love moderately; long love doth so; / Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 6.
=Love must be as much a light as a flame.= _Thoreau._
=Love must be taken by stratagem, not by open force.= _Goldsmith._
=Love never reasons, but profusely gives--gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles then lest it has done too little.= _Hannah More._
=Love not pleasure; love God. This is the everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved: wherein whoso walks and works, it is well with him.= _Carlyle._
=Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty.= _Bible._
=Love not thyself, nor give thy humours way; /= 5 =God gave them to thee under lock and key.= _George Herbert._
=Love of gain never made a painter, but it has marred many.= _W. Allston._
=Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of it creates a great man.= _Talleyrand._
=Love of men cannot be bought by cash payment; and without love men cannot endure to be together.= _Carlyle._
=Love of power, merely to make flunkeys come and go for you, is a love, I should think, which enters only into the minds of persons in a very infantine state.= _Carlyle._
=Love of truth shows itself in being able everywhere= 10 =to find and value what is good.= _Goethe._
=Love on his lips and hatred in his heart: / His motto--constancy, his creed--to part.= _Byron._
=Love one human being with warmth and purity, and thou wilt love the world. The heart, in that celestial sphere of love, is like the sun in its course. From the drop on the rose to the ocean, all is for him a mirror, which he fills and brightens.= _Jean Paul._
=Love one time layeth burdens, another time giveth wings.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Love ought to raise a low heart and not humble a high one.= _Ariosto._
=Love ower het= (hot) =soon cools.= _Sc. Pr._ 15
=Love prefers twilight to daylight.= _Holmes._
=Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.= _Dryden._
=Love requires not so much proofs as expressions of love.= _Jean Paul._
=Love rules his kingdom without a sword.= _Pr._
=Love rules the camp, the court, the grove, /= 20 =And men below and saints above; / For love is heaven, and heaven is love.= _Scott._
=Love rules without a sword and binds without a cord.= _Pr._
=Love rules without law.= _It. Pr._
=Love sees what no eye sees; hears what no ear hears; and what never rose in the heart of man love prepares for its object.= _Lavater._
=Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, / And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.= _Pope._
=Love should have some rest and pleasure in= 25 =himself, / Not ever be too curious for a boon, / Too prurient for a proof against the grain / Of him ye say ye love.= _Tennyson._
=Love should not be all on one side.= _Pr._
=Love shows, even to the dullest, the possibilities of the human race.= _Helps._
=Love silence rather than speech in these tragic days, when for very speaking the voice of man has fallen inarticulate to man.= _Carlyle._
=Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.= _Twelfth Night_, iii. 1.
=Love strikes one hour--love. Those never= 30 =loved / Who dream that they loved once.= _Elizabeth B. Browning._
=Love that can flow, and can admit increase, / Admits as well an ebb, and may grow less.= _Suckling._
=Love the good and forgive the bad.= _Gael. Pr._
=Love, the last relay and ultimate outpost of eternity.= _D. G. Rossetti._
=Love the sense of right and wrong confounds; / Strong love and proud ambition have no bounds.= _Dryden._
=Love thinks nae ill, envy speaks nae gude.= 35 _Sc. Pr._
=Love thyself, and many will hate thee.= _Anon._
=Love to a yielding heart is a king, but to a resisting is a tyrant.= _Sidney._
=Love to make others happy; yes, surely at all times, so far as you can. But at bottom that is not the aim of any life. Do not think that your life means a mere searching in gutters for fallen creatures to wipe and set up.... In our life there is no meaning at all except the work we have done.= _Carlyle._
=Love too late can never glow.= _Keble._
=Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all= 40 =the chords with might; / Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight.= _Tennyson._
=Love-verses, writ without any real passion, are the most nauseous of all conceits.= _Shenstone._
=Love waits for love, though the sun be set, / And the stars come out, the dews are wet, / And the night-winds moan.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Love--what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear!= _Tupper._
=Love, when founded in the heart, will show itself in a thousand unpremeditated sallies of fondness; but every cool deliberate exhibition of the passion only argues little understanding or great insincerity.= _Goldsmith._
=Love which hath ends will have an end.= 45 _Dryden._
=Love, which is only an episode in the life of a man, is the entire history of a woman's life.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.= _Emerson._
=Love will creep where it cannot go.= _Pr._
=Love will find its way / Through paths where wolves would fear to prey.= _Byron._
=Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope,= 50 =but not altogether without it.= _Scott._
=Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea.= _Mme. de Girardin._
=Love without return is like a question without an answer.= _Ger. Pr._
=Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.= _St. Paul._
=Love works a different way in different minds, / The fool enlightens and the wise he blinds.= _Dryden._
=Love yet lives, and patience shall find rest.= _Keble._
=Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.= _Jesus._
=Love your neighbour, but don't tear down the fence.= _Ger. Pr._
=Love yourself, and in that love / Not unconsidered leave your honour.= _Hen. VIII._, i. 2.
=Love's fire, if it once go out, is hard to kindle.= 5 _Pr._
=Love's heralds should be thoughts, / Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams / Driving back shadows over lowering hills.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 5.
=Love's not love / When it is mingled with regards that stand / Aloof from the entire point.= _Lear_, i. 1.
=Love's of a strangely open simple kind, / And thinks none sees it 'cause itself is blind.= _Cowley._
=Love's of itself too sweet; the best of all / Is when love's honey has a dash of gall.= _Herrick._
=Love's plant must be watered with tears and= 10 =tended with care.= _Dan. Pr._
=Love's reasons without reason.= _Cymbeline_, iv. 2.
=Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances.= _Bovee._
=Love's the noblest frailty of the mind.= _Dryden._
=Love's true function in the world is as the regenerator and restorer of social life, the reconciler and uniter of living men.= _Ed._
=Love's voice doth sing as sweetly in a beggar= 15 =as a king.= _Decker._
=Lovely, far more lovely, the sturdy gloom of laborious indigence than the fawning simper of thriving adulation.= _Goldsmith._
=Loveliness does more than destroy ugliness; it destroys matter. A mere touch of it in a room, in a street, even on a door-knocker, is a spiritual force.= _Prof. Drummond._
=Loveliness / Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, / But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.= _Thomson._
=Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, / Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend / More than cool reason ever comprehends.= _Mid. Night's Dream_, v. 1.
=Lovers are as punctual as the sun.= _Goethe._ 20
=Lovers are never tired of each other; they always speak of themselves.= _La Roche._
=Lovers break not hours, / Unless it be to come before their time; / So much they spur their expedition.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, v. 1.
=Lovers' purses are tied with cobwebs.= _Pr._
=Lovers= (_Verliebte_) =see only each other in the world, but they forget that the world sees them.= _Platen._
=Lovers' time runs faster than the clock.= 25 _Pr._
=Loving goes by haps; some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.= _Much Ado_, iii. 1.
=Lowliness is the base of every virtue, and he who goes the lowest builds the safest.= _Bailey._
=Lowliness is young ambition's ladder, / Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; / But when he once attains the upmost round, / He then unto the ladder turns his back, / Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees / By which he did ascend.= _Jul. Cæs._, ii. 1.
=Loyal à la mort=--Loyal to death. _M._
=Loyal en tout=--Loyal in all. _M._ 30
=Loyal je serai durant ma vie=--I will be loyal during my life. _M._
=Loyauté m'oblige=--Loyalty binds me. _M._
=Loyauté n'a honte=--Loyalty feels no shame. _M._
=Lubrici sunt fortunæ gressus=--The footsteps of fortune are slippery.
=Lubricum linguæ non facile in pœnam est= 35 =trahendum=--A slip of the tongue ought not to be rashly punished. _L._
[Greek: Lychnou arthentos, gynê pasa hê autê]--When the candle is taken away, every woman is alike. _Gr. Pr._
=Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up. Labour, with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. Luck relies on chance, labour on character.= _Cobden._
=Luck is everything in promotion.= _Cervantes._
=Luck is the idol of the idle.= _Pr._
=Luck, mere luck, may make even madness= 40 =wisdom.= _Douglas Jerrold._
=Luck seeks those who flee, and flees those who seek it.= _Ger. Pr._
=Lucri bonus est odor ex re / Qualibet=--The smell of gain is good, from whatever it proceeds. _Juv._
=Luctantem Icariis fluctibus Africum / Mercator metuens, otium et oppidi / Laudat rura sui: mox reficit rates / Quassas, indocilis pauperiem pati=--The merchant, dreading the south-west wind wrestling with the Icarian waves, praises retirement and the rural life of his native town, but soon he repairs his shattered bark, incapable of being taught to endure poverty. _Hor._
=Ludere cum sacris=--To trifle with sacred things.
=Ludit in humanis divina potestas rebus, / Et= 45 =certam præsens vix habet hora fidem=--The divine power sports with human affairs so much that we can scarcely be sure of the passing hour. _Ovid._
=Lugete o Veneres Cupidinesque=--Weep, all ye Venuses and Cupids. _Cat._
=Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain, / Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; / Awake but one, and lo! what myriads rise! / Each stamps its image as the other flies.= _Rogers._
=Lupo agnum eripere postulant=--They insist on snatching the lamb from the wolf. _Plaut._
=Lupo ovem commisisti=--You have put the sheep to the care of the wolf. _Ter._
=Lupus in fabula=--It is the wolf in the story; 50 talking of him, he appeared.
=Lupus non curat numerum (ovum)=--The wolf is not scared by the number of the sheep. _Pr._
=Lupus pilum mutat, non mentem=--The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition. _Pr._
=Lusisti satis, edisti satis, atque bibisti; / Tempus abire tibi est=--Thou hast amused thyself enough, hast eaten and drunk enough; 'tis time for thee to depart. _Hor._
=Lust--hard by fate.= _Milton._
=Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.= _St. Ambrose._
=Lust is an enemy to the purse, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and a mortal bane to all the body.= _Pliny._
=Lust is, of all the frailties of our nature, / What most we ought to fear; the headstrong beast / Rushes along, impatient of the course; / Nor hears the rider's call, nor fears the rein.= _Rowe._
=Lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it better= 5 =or worse / Than the heart of the citizen hissing in war on his own hearthstone?= _Tennyson._
=Lust und Liebe sind die Fittiche / Zu grossen Thaten=--Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds. _Goethe._
=Lust yielded to is a pleasant madness, but it is a desperate madness when opposed.= _Bp. Hall._
=Lusus naturæ=--A freak of nature.
=Luther's shoes don't fit every country parson.= _Ger. Pr._
=Luther's words are half battles.= _Jean Paul._ 10
=Luxuriæ desunt multa, avaritiæ omnia=--Luxury is in want of many things; avarice, of everything. _Pub. Syr._
=Luxuriant animi rebus plerumque secundis; / Nec facile est æqua commoda mente pati=--The feelings generally run riot in prosperity; and to bear good fortune with evenness of mind is no easy task. _Ovid._
=Luxury is a nice master, hard to be pleased.= _Sir G. Mackenzie._
=Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.= _Victor Hugo._
=Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread= 15 =to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.= _H. Home._
=Lydius lapis=--A Lydian or test stone.
=Lying and stealing live next door to each other.= _Pr._
=Lying is a breach of promise; for whoever seriously addresses his discourse to another tacitly promises to speak the truth, because he knows the truth is expected.= _Paley._
=Lying is a disgraceful vice, "affording testimony," as Plutarch says, "that one first despises God and then fears men."= _Montaigne._
=Lying is the strongest acknowledgment of= 20 =the force of truth.= _Hazlitt._
=Lying lips are an abomination unto the Lord.= _Bible._
=Lying may be pernicious in its general tendency, and therefore criminal, though it produce no particular or visible mischief to any one.= _Paley._
=Lying pays no tax.= _Pr._
=Lying rides on debt's back.= _Pr._
=Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers= 25 =nous=--Lynx-eyed to our neighbours, and mole-eyed to ourselves. _La Fontaine._
=Lyrical poetry is much the same in every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.= _Heine._