Quote #24

Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. Quid enim est aetas hominis, nisi ea memoria rerum veterum cum superiorum aetate contexitur? (120)

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  1. Prima enim sequentem honestum est in secundis tertiisque consistere. (3)
  2. Hannibal ad portas
  3. Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
  4. That, Senators, is what a favour from gangsters amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!
  5. The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
  6. Respublica est consensus iuris et communio utilitatis
  7. A friend is, as it were, a second self.
  8. Appetitus Rationi Pareat

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