=Vache ne sait ce que vaut sa queue jusqu'à-ce-qu'elle
l'ait perdue=--The cow doesn't
know the worth of her tail until she has lost it.
_Fr. Pr._
=Vacuus cantat coram latrone viator=--The traveller 45
with an empty purse sings in the face of
the robber. _Juv._
=Vade in pace=--Go in peace.
=Vade mecum=--Go with me; a constant companion;
a manual.
=Vade retro!=--Avaunt!
=Væ victis!=--Woe (_i.e._, extermination) to the conquered!
=Vaillant et veillant=--Valiant and on the watch. _M._ 50
=Vain for the rude craftsman to attempt the
beautiful; only one diamond can polish
another.= _Goethe._
=Vain hope to make people happy by politics!=
_Carlyle._
=Vain is the help of man.= _Bible._
=Vain man would be wise, though man be born
like a wild ass's colt.= _Bible._
=Vain men delight in telling what honours have
been done them, what great company they
have kept, and the like; by which they
plainly confess that these honours were
more than their due.= _Swift._
=Vain people are loquacious; and proud, taciturn.=
_Schopenhauer._
=Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye.=
_Hen. VIII._, iii. 2.
=Vain to send the purblind or blind to the shore= 5
=of a Pactolus never so golden: these find
only gravel; the seer and finder alone picks
up golden grains there.= _Carlyle._
=Vain, very vain, my weary search to find / That
bliss which only centres in the mind.= _Goldsmith._
=Vainglory blossoms, but never bears.= _Pr._
=Val meglio piegarsi che rompersi=--Better submit
than be ruined. _It. Pr._
=Val più un asino vivo che un dottore morto=--A
living ass is better than a dead doctor. _It. Pr._
=Val più un' oncia di discrezione che una libra= 10
=di sapere=--An ounce of discretion is worth more
than a pound of knowledge. _It. Pr._
=Valeant mendacia vatum=--Away with the
fictions of poets! _Ovid._
=Valeat quantum valere potest=--Let it pass for
what it is worth.
=Valeat res ludicra, si me / Palma negata
macrum, donata reducit opimum=--Farewell
to the drama if the palm as it is granted or denied
makes me happy or miserable. _Hor._
=Valet anchora virtus=--Virtue is a sure anchor. _M._
=Valet ima summis / Mutare, et insignem attenuat= 15
=Deus, / Obscura promens=--The Deity
has power to supplant the highest by the lowest,
and he dims the lustre of the exalted by bringing
forth to the light things obscure. _Hor._
=Validius est naturæ testimonium quam doctrinæ
argumentum=--The testimony of nature
is weightier than the arguments of the learned.
_St. Ambrose._
=Valour consists in the power of self-recovery.=
_Emerson._
=Valour in distress challenges respect, even
from an enemy.= _Plutarch._
=Valour is the fountain of Pity too;--of Truth,
and all that is great and good in man.= _Carlyle._
=Valour is worth little without discretion.= _Pr._ 20
=Valour would cease to be a virtue if there
were no injustice.= _Agesilaus._
=Vana quoque ad veros accessit fama timores=--Idle
rumours were also added to well-founded
apprehensions. _Lucan._
=Vanitas vanitatum, et omnia vanitas=--Vanity
of vanities, all is vanity. _Vulgate._
=Vanity and coarse pride give gold; friendship
and love give flowers.= _Grillparzer._
=Vanity Fair.= _Bunyan._ 25
=Vanity, however artfully concealed or openly
displayed, always counteracts its own purposes.=
_Arliss._
=Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof
of an open nature. Eighty winters have not
frozen him up or taught him concealments.
In a young person it is simply allowable; we
do not expect him to be above it.= _Bovee._
=Vanity is a blue-bottle, which buzzes in the
window of the wise.= _Pr._
=Vanity is of a divisive, not a uniting nature.=
_Carlyle._
=Vanity is rather a mark of humility than pride.= 30
_Swift._
=Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that
the lowest drudge must boast and have his
admirers; and the philosophers themselves
desire the same.= _Pascal._
=Vanity is the food of fools.= _Swift._
=Vanity is the pride of Nature.= _Pr._
=Vanity is the vice of low minds; a man of
spirit is too proud to be vain.= _Swift._
=Vare, Vare, redde mihi legiones meas!=--Varus, 35
give me back my legions! _Suet. Exclamation
of Augustus Cæsar on hearing of the slaughter
of his troops under Varus by Arminius._
=Variæ lectiones=--Various readings.
=Varietas delectat=--Variety is charming. _Phædrus._
=Variety alone gives joy; / The sweetest meats
the soonest cloy.= _Prior._
=Variety is the condition of harmony.= _J. F.
Clarke._
=Variety is the mother of enjoyment.= _Disraeli._ 40
=Variety is the principal ingredient in beauty;
and simplicity is essential to grandeur.=
_Shenstone._
=Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure
than uniformity of somethings.= _Jean Paul._
=Variety's the very spice of life, / That gives it
all its flavour.= _Cowper._
=Variorum notæ=--Notes of various authors.
=Varium et mutabile semper / Fœmina=--Woman 45
is ever changeable and capricious. _Virg._
=Vary and intermingle speech of the present
occasion with arguments, tales with reasons,
asking of questions with telling of opinions,
and jest with earnest; for it is a dull thing
to tire, and, as we say now, to jade anything
too far.= _Bacon._
=Vast chain of being! / From Nature's chain
whatever link you strike / Tenth or ten
thousandth breaks the chain alike.= _Pope._
=Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, /
And falls on the other.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=Vaux mieux avoir affaire à Dieu qu'à ses
saints=--Better to have dealings with God than
his saints. _Fr. Pr._
=Vectigalia nervi sunt reipublicæ=--Taxes are the 50
sinews of the commonwealth. _Cic._
=Vedentem thus et odores=--Selling frankincense
and perfumes. _Hor., of worthless works fated
to wrap up parcels._
=Vedi Napoli, e poi muori=--See Naples and then
die. _It. Pr._
=Vehemens in utramque partem, aut largitate
nimia aut parsimonia=--Ready to rush to either
extreme of lavish liberality or niggardly parsimony.
_Ter._
=Veiosque habitante Camillo, / Illic Roma fuit=--When
Camillus dwelt at Veii, Rome was
there. _Lucan._
=Vel cæco appareat=--Even a blind man could 55
perceive it. _Pr._
=Vel capillus habet umbram suam=--Even a hair
has its shadow. _Pub. Syr._
=Velis et remis=--With sails and oars.
=Vellem nescire literas!=--I wish I never knew how
to read or write! _Nero on signing a death-warrant._
=Velocem tardus assequitur=--The slow overtakes
the swift. _Pr._
=Velocius ac citius nos / Corrumpunt vitiorum
exempla domestica, magnis / Cum subeant
animos auctoribus=--The examples of vice at
home more easily and more quickly corrupt us
than others, since they steal into our minds under
the highest authority. _Juv._
=Velox consilium sequitur pœnitentia=--Repentance
generally follows hasty counsels. _Pub.
Syr._
=Veluti in speculum=--As if in a mirror. 5
=Velvet paws hide sharp claws.= _Pr._
=Vendere fumos=--To sell smoke, or make empty
pledges.
=Vendetta boccon di Dio=--Revenge is a sweet
morsel for a god. _It. Pr._
=Veneering oft outshines the solid wood.= _Burns._
=Venerable to me is the hard hand--crooked,= 10
=coarse--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a
cunning virtue, indefeasibly royal, as of the
sceptre of this planet. Venerable, too, is the
rugged face, all weather-tanned, besoiled,
with its rude intelligence; for it is the face
of a man living manlike.= _Carlyle._
=Vengeance belongeth unto me; I will recompense,
saith the Lord.= _Bible._
=Vengeance has no foresight.= _Napoleon._
=Vengeance= (_Rache_) =has no limits, for sin has
none.= _F. Hebbel._
=Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the
Lord.= _St. Paul._
=Vengeance is wild justice.= _Pr._ 15
=Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and
torment the conscience.= _Schopenhauer._
=Veni, Creator Spiritus=--Come, Creator Spirit.
=Veni, vidi, vici=--I came, I saw, I conquered.
_Julius Cæsar's despatch, to a friend at Rome
on his defeat of Pharnaces._
=Venia necessitati datur=--Pardon is conceded to
necessity. _Cic._
=Venient annis / Sæcula seris, quibus Oceanus /= 20
=Vincula rerum laxet, et ingens / Pateat
tellus, Tiphysque novos / Detegat orbes;
nec sit terris / Ultima thule=--In later years
a time will come when Ocean shall relax his
bars, and a vast territory shall appear, and
Tiphys shall discover new worlds, and Thule
shall be no longer the remotest spot on earth.
_Sen. predicting the discovery of America._
=Venire facias=--Cause to come. (Writ of a sheriff
to summon a jury.) _L._
=Venit summa dies et ineluctabile tempus /
Dardaniæ=--The last day and inevitable hour
of Troy is come. _Virg._
=Vent au visage rend un homme sage=--Wind in
the face (_i.e._ adversity) makes a man wise. _Pr._
=Ventis secundis=--With a fair wind.
=Ventre à terre--At full speed; with all one's= 25
=might.= _Fr._
=Ventre affamé n'a point d'oreilles=--A hungry
belly has no ears. _Fr. Pr._
=Ventum ad supremum est=--A crisis has come;
we are at our last shift. _Virg._
=Ventum seminabant et turbinem metent=--They
were sowing the wind, and they shall reap the
whirlwind. _Vulgate._
=Venus, if men at sea you save, / And rescue
from the whirling wave, / Me too, a lover,
I implore, / Save from worse shipwreck here
on shore.= _Anon._
=Venus is beautiful, no doubt; but the artist= 30
=that created her is more beautiful still.= _Ed._
=Venus will not charm so much without her
attendant Graces, as they will without her.=
_Chesterfield._
=Ver non semper viret=--The spring does not
always flourish. _M._
=Vera redit facies, dissimulata perit=--Our natural
countenance comes back, the assumed mask falls
off. _Petron._
=Verachtung ist der wahre Tod=--The true death
is being treated with contempt. _Schiller._
=Verba dat omnis amans=--Every lover makes fair 35
speeches. _Ovid._
=Verba facit mortuo=--He talks to a dead man; he
wastes words. _Plaut._
=Verba ligant homines, taurorum cornua funes=--Words
bind men, cords the horns of bulls.
=Verba rebus aptare=--To fit words to things, _i.e._,
call a spade a spade.
=Verba volant, scripta manent=--What is spoken
flies, what is written remains.
=Verbaque provisam rem non invita sequentur=--Words 40
will not fail when the matter is well
considered. _Hor._
=Verbatim et literatim=--Word for word and letter
for letter.
=Verbi causa=, _or_ =gratia=--For example; for instance.
=Verbo tenus=--In name; as far as the words go.
=Verborum paupertas, imo egestas=--A poverty
of words, or rather an utter want of them. _Sen._
=Verbosa ac grandis epistola venit / A Capreis=--A 45
verbose and haughty epistle came from
Capreæ (the Emperor Tiberius's palace). _Juv._
=Verbum Dei manet in æternum=--The command
of God endures through eternity. _M._
=Verbum Domini manet in æternum=--The word
of the Lord endureth for ever. _Vulgate._
=Verbum sat sapienti=--A word is enough to a wise
man. _Pr._
=Verbunden werden auch die Schwachen
mächtig=--Even the weak become strong when
they are united. _Schiller._
=Vergebens dass ihr ringums wissenschaftlich= 50
=schweift, / Ein jeder lernt nur was er lernen
kann!=--In vain that ye go ranging round about
in your scientific, or learned, inquiries; each
one learns only what he can. _Mephisto, to the
scholar in Goethe's "Faust."_
=Vergieb soviel du kannst, und gieb soviel du
hast=--Forgive as much as thou canst, and give
as much as thou hast. _Rückert._
=Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man
be born of water and the spirit= (of death,
that is, and of life), =he cannot enter the kingdom
of God.= _Jesus._
=Veritas, a quocunque dicitur, a Deo est=--Truth,
by whomsoever spoken, comes from God.
=Veritas et virtus vincunt=--Truth and virtue
conquer. _M._
=Veritas nihil veretur nisi abscondi=--Truth fears 55
nothing but concealment.
=Veritas non recipit magis ac minus=--Truth
admits not of greater and less. _Wilkins._
=Veritas odium parit=--The truth begets hatred.
=Veritas temporis filia=--Truth is the daughter of
Time.
=Veritas vel mendacio corrumpitur vel silentio=--Truth
is violated by falsehood or by silence.
_Ammian._
=Veritas victrix=--Truth the conqueror. _M._
=Veritas vincit=--Truth conquers. _M._
=Veritas visu et mora, falsa festinatione et= 5
=incertis valescunt=--Truth is established by inspection
and delay; falsehood thrives by haste
and uncertainty. _Tac._
=Veritatis simplex oratio est=--The language of
truth is simple, _i.e._, it needs not the ornament of
many words. _Sen._
=Vérité sans peur=--Truth without fear. _M._
=Verletzen ist leicht, heilen schwer=--To hurt is
easy, to heal is hard. _Ger. Pr._
=Vermögen sucht Vermögen=--Ability seeks
ability. _Ger. Pr._
=Vernunft und Wissenschaft, / Des Menschen= 10
=allerhöchste Kraft!=--Reason and knowledge,
the highest might of man! _Goethe._
=Versate diu, quid ferre recusent, / Quid valeant
humeri=--Weigh well what your shoulders can
and cannot bear. _Hor._
=Verschoben ist nicht aufgehoben=--To put off
is not to let off. _Ger. Pr._
=Verse itself is an absurdity except as an expression
of some higher movement of the
mind, or as an expedient to lift other minds
to the same ideal level.= _Lowell._
=Verstand ist mechanischer, Witz ist chemischer,
Genie organischer Geist=--Understanding
is a mechanically, wit a chemically, and
genius an organically, acting spirit. _Fr. Schlegel._
=Verstellung ist der offnen Seele fremd=--Dissimulation 15
is alien to the open soul. _Schiller._
=Verstellung, sagt man, sei ein grosses Laster, /
Doch von Verstellung leben wir=--Dissimulation
they say is very wicked, yet we live by
dissimulation. _Goethe._
=Vertere seria ludo=--To turn from grave to gay.
_Hor._
=Vertrauen erweckt Vertrauen=--Confidence
awakens confidence. _Friedrich August II. von
Sachsen._
=Verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego
paucis / Offendar maculis=--But where many
beauties shine in a poem, I will not be offended
at a few blots. _Hor._
=Verus amicus est is qui est tanquam alter idem=--A 20
true friend is he who is, as it were, a second
self. _Cic._
=Verwelkt, entblättert, zertreten sogar / Von
rohen Schicksalsfüssen--/ Mein Freund,
das ist auf Erden das Los / Von allem
Schönen und Süssen=--To wither away, be disleaved,
be trodden to dust even by the rude feet
of Fate, that, friend, is the lot on earth of everything
that is beautiful and sweet. _Heine._
=Very few enjoy money, because they can't
get enough.= _Amer. Pr._
=Very few men acquire wealth in such a
manner as to receive pleasure from it.=
_Ward Beecher._
=Very few men, properly speaking, live at present,
but are providing to live another time.=
_Not traceable._
=Very few people are good economists of their= 25
=fortune, and still fewer of their time.= _Chesterfield._
=Very fine pagoda if ye could get any sort of
god to put in it.= _Carlyle to Bunsen of Cologne
Cathedral._
=Very great benefactors to the rich, or those
whom they call people at their ease, are
your persons of no consequence.= _Steele._
=Very learned women are to be met with, just
as female warriors; but they are seldom or
never inventors.= _Voltaire._
=Very like a whale.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=Verzeih dir nichts und den Andern viel=--Forgive 30
thyself nothing, others much. _Ger. Pr._
=Verzeihn ist leicht, allein vergessen schwer=--To
forgive is easy, but to forget hard. _Schiller._
=Verzeiht! Es ist ein gross Ergötzen / Sich in
den Geist der Zeiten zu versetzen, / Zu
schauen, wie vor uns ein weiser Mann
gedacht, / Und wie wir's dann zuletzt so
herrlich weit gebracht=--Pardon! It is a great
pleasure to transport one's self into the spirit of
the times, to see how a wise man thought before
us, and to what a glorious height we have at last
carried it. _Goethe, Wagner to Faust._
=Vestibulum domus ornamentum est=--The hall
is the ornament of a house, _i.e._, first impressions
have great weight. _Pr._
=Vestigia morientis libertatis=--The footprints of
expiring liberty. _Tac._
=Vestigia nulla retrorsum=--There is no stepping 35
backward.
=Vestigia terrent=--The footprints frighten me.
_Hor._
=Vestis virum facit=--The garment makes the
man. _Pr._
=Vetera extollimus, recentium incuriosi=--We
extol what is old, regardless of what is of modern
date. _Tac._
=Vetustas pro lege semper habetur=--Ancient
custom is always held as law. _L._
=Vi et armis=--By force and arms; by main 40
force.
=Via crucis, via lucis=--The way of the cross is the
way of light. _M._
=Via media=--A middle way or course; any middle
course. _M._
=Via trita est tutissima=--The beaten path is the
safest. _Coke._
=Via trita, via tuta=--The beaten path is the safe
path. _L._
=Viam qui nescit qua deveniat ad mare, / Eum= 45
=oportet amnem quærere comitem sibi=--He
who knows not his way straight to the sea
should choose the river for his guide. _Plaut._
=Viamque insiste domandi, / Dum faciles animi
juvenum, dum mobilis ætas=--Enter upon the
way of training while the spirits in youth are still
pliant, while they are at that period when the
mind is docile. _Virg._
=Vice=--In place of.
=Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, / As
to be hated needs but to be seen; / Yet seen
too often, familiar with her face, / We first
endure, then pity, then embrace.= _Pope._
=Vice is its own punishment.= _Pr._
=Vice is learned without a schoolmaster.= _Dan._ 50
_Pr._
=Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its
grossness.= _Burke._
=Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.=
_Hazlitt._
=Vice versa=--The terms being reversed; in reverse
order.
=Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither
man nor the proudest of his works, which
buries empires and cities in a common grave.=
_Gibbon._
=Vicisti Galilæe!=--Thou hast conquered, O Galilæan!
_Julian the Apostate on his deathbed,
apostrophising Christ._
=Victoria concordia crescit=--Victory is increased
by concord. _M._
=Victoriæ gloria merces=--Glory is the reward of 5
victory. _M._
=Victory belongs to the most persevering.=
_Napoleon._
=Victory or Westminster Abbey.= _Nelson at
Trafalgar._
=Victrix causa Diis placuit, sed victa Catoni=--The
conquering cause pleased the gods, the
conquered one Cato. _Lucan._
=Victrix fortunæ sapientia=--Wisdom overcomes
fortune. _Juv._
=Vide licet=--Namely; you may see. 10
=Vide ut supra=--See preceding statement.
=Video meliora proboque, / Deteriora sequor=--I
see and approve the better course, but I follow
the worse. _Ovid._
=Viel Klagen hör' ich oft erheben / Vom Hochmut,
den der Grosse übt. / Der Grossen
Hochmut wird sich geben, / Wenn unsre
Kriecherei sich giebt=--Much complaining I
often hear raised against the proud bearing of
the great. The pride of the great will disappear
as soon as we cease our cringing. _Körner._
=Viel Rettungsmittel bietest du? Was heisst'
es? / Die beste Rettung, Gegenwart des
Geistes=--Many a remedy offerest thou? What
is the worth of it? The best remedy (the sole
deliverance) is the presence of the spirit. _Goethe._
=Viele Freunde und wenige Nothhelfer=--Many 15
friends and few helpers in distress. _Ger. Pr._
=Vieles wünscht sich der Mensch, und doch
bedarf er nur wenig; / Denn die Tage sind
kurz, und beschränkt der Sterblichen Schicksal=--Much
wishes man for himself, and yet needs
he but little; for the days are short, and limited is
the fate of mortals. _Goethe._
=Vigilantibus=--To those that watch. _M._
=Vigilantibus, non dormientibus, subveniunt
jura=--The laws assist those who watch, not
those who sleep. _L._
=Vigor ætatis fluit ut flos veris=--The vigour of
manhood passes away like a spring flower.
=Vile is the vengeance on the ashes cold, / And= 20
=envy base to bark at sleeping fame.= _Spenser._
=Vilius argentium est auro, virtutibus aurum=--Silver
is of less value than gold, gold than
virtue. _Hor._
=Vincere scis, Hannibal, victoria uti nescis=--You
know how to conquer, Hannibal, but you
know not how to profit by your victory. _Maharbal
in Livy._
=Vincit amor patriæ=--The love of our country
outweighs all other considerations. _Virg._
=Vincit omnia veritas=--Truth conquers all things.
_M._
=Vincit qui se vincit=--He is a conqueror who 25
conquers himself. _M._
=Vinegar given is better than honey bought.=
_Arab. Pr._
=Vino dentro, senno fuora=--When wine is in, wit
is out. _It. Pr._
=Vino diffugiunt mordaces curæ=--Corroding cares
are dispelled by wine. _After Horace._
=Violence does ever justice unjustly.= _Carlyle._
=Violence of sorrow is not at the first to be= 30
=striven withal; being, like a mighty beast,
sooner tamed with following than overthrown
by withstanding.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Violent combativeness for particular sects, as
Evangelical, Roman Catholic, High Church,
Broad Church, or the like, is merely a form
of party egoism, and a defiance of Christ,
not a confession of Him.= _Ruskin._
=Violent delights have violent ends, / And in
their triumph die, like fire and powder, /
Which, as they kiss, consume.= _Rom. and
Jul._, ii. 6.
=Violent fires soon burn out.= _Pr._
=Violent mirth is the foam, and deep sadness
the subsidence, of a morbid fermentation.=
_Johnson._
=Violent passions are formed in solitude. In= 35
=the bustle of the world no object has time
to make a deep impression.= _Henry Home._
=Violenta nemo imperia continuit diu; /
Moderata durant=--No one ever held power
long by violence; it lasts only when wielded
with moderation. _Sen._
=Vir bonus est quis? / Qui consulta patrum,
qui leges juraque servat=--What man is to be
called good? He who obeys the decrees of the
fathers, he who respects the laws and justice.
_Hor._
=Vir sapiens forti melior=--A wise man is better
than a strong.
=Vires acquirit eundo=--She acquires strength as
she advances. _Virg., of Fame._
=Virescit vulnere virtus=--Virtue flourishes from 40
a wound. _M._
=Viret in æternum=--It flourishes for ever. _M._
=Virgilium vidi tantum=--Virgil I have only seen.
_Ovid._
=Viribus unitis=--With united strength. _M. of
Joseph I._
=Viris fortibus non opus est mœnibus=--Brave
men have no need of walls.
=Virtue alone can procure that independence= 45
=which is the end of human wishes.= _Petrarch._
=Virtue alone has majesty in death.= _Young._
=Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise
of government; laws alone carry themselves
into practice.= _Mencius._
=Virtue alone outbuilds the pyramids; / Her
monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.=
_Young._
=Virtue and goodness tend to make men powerful
in this world; but they who aim at the
power have not the virtue.= _Newman._
=Virtue does not consist in doing what will be= 50
=presently paid; it will be paid some day;
but the vital condition of it, as virtue, is
that it shall be content in its own deed, and
desirous rather that the pay of it, if any,
should be for others.= _Ruskin._
=Virtue, if it could only be beheld by our eyes,
would excite a marvellous love for wisdom.= (?)
=Virtue is an absolute Amen, uttered with reference
to the obscure ends that Providence
pursues through us.= _Renan._
=Virtue is an angel; but she is a blind one, and
must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway
that leads to her goal. Mere knowledge,
on the other hand, like a Swiss mercenary,
is ready to combat either in the ranks
of sin or under the banners of righteousness:
ready to forge cannon-balls or to print New
Testaments; to navigate a corsair's vessel
or a missionary ship.= _Horace Mann._
=Virtue is beauty; but the beauteous-evil / Are
empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.=
_Twelfth Night_, iii. 4.
=Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.=
_Meas. for Meas._, iii. 1.
=Virtue is choked with foul ambition.= 2 _Hen.
VI._, iii. 1.
=Virtue is free-will to choose the good, not= 5
=tool-usefulness to forge at the expedient.=
_Carlyle._
=Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it
the truest and highest pleasures; but they
who cultivate it for the pleasure's sake are
selfish, not religions, and will never have the
pleasure, because they never can have the
virtue.= _Newman._
=Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.=
_Bacon._
=Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant
where they are incensed or crushed.= _Bacon._
=Virtue is necessary to a republic.= _Montesquieu._
=Virtue is not a knowing, but a willing.= _Zachariä._ 10
=Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.= _C. H.
Parkhurst._
=Virtue is the adherence in action to the nature
of things, and the nature of things makes it
prevalent. It consists in a perpetual substitution
of being for seeming, and with sublime
propriety God is described as saying, I AM.=
_Emerson._
=Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.=
_Marlowe._
=Virtue is the health of the soul; it gives a
flavour to the smallest leaves of life.= _Joubert._
=Virtue is the queen of labourers.= _Pr._ 15
=Virtue itself offends when coupled with forbidding
manners.= _Bp. Middleton._
=Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, / And
vice sometime's by action dignified.= _Rom. and
Jul._, ii. 3.
=Virtue, like a plant, will not grow unless its
root be hidden, buried from the eye of the
sun. Let the sun shine on it, nay, do but
look at it privily thyself, the root withers,
and no flower will glad thee.= _Carlyle._
=Virtue, like a strong and hardy plant, will
root when it can find an ingenuous nature
and a mind not averse to labour.= _Plutarch._
=Virtue, like health, is the harmony of the whole= 20
=man.= _Carlyle._
=Virtue may be stern, but never cruel, never inhuman.=
_Schiller._
=Virtue, not misery, is the appointed road to
heaven.= _W. R. Greg._
=Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edged
rocks of poverty.= _Eugene Sue._
=Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree
perfumes the axe which strikes it.= _Saadi._
=Virtue repulsed, yet knows not to repine, /= 25
=But shall with unattainted honour shine.=
_Swift._
=Virtue should be considered as a part of taste,
and we should as much avoid deceit or
sinister meanings in discourse as we would
puns, bad language, or false grammar.= (?)
=Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches
as she does in purple and fine linen.= _Dickens._
=Virtue that goes unrewarded is doubly beautiful.=
_Seume._
=Virtue that wavers is not virtue.= _Milton._
=Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb,= 30
=commands respect.= _Schiller._
=Virtue, though in rags, will keep one warm.=
_Dryden, after Horace._
=Virtue, which breaks through all opposition /
And all temptations can remove, / Most
shines and most is acceptable above.= _Milton._
=Virtue which is according to the precepts of
reason, appears equally great in avoiding as
in overcoming dangers.= _Spinoza._
=Virtuous and vicious every man must be; / Few
in the extreme, but all in a degree.= _Pope._
=Virtus ariete fortior=--Virtue is stronger than a 35
battering-ram. _M._
=Virtus est medium vitiorum, et utrinque reductum=--Virtue
is the mean between two vices,
and equally removed from either. _Hor._
=Virtus est militis decus=--Valour is the soldier's
honour. _Livy._
=Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima /
Stultitia caruisse=--It is virtue to shun vice, and
the first step of wisdom is to be free from folly.
_Hor._
=Virtus hominem jungit Deo=--Virtue unites man
with God. _Cic._
=Virtus in actione consistit=--Virtue consists in 40
action. _M._
=Virtus in arduis=--Valour in difficulties.
=Virtus laudatur et alget=--Virtue is praised and
is left to freeze in the cold. _Juv._
=Virtus mille scuta=--Virtue is as good as a thousand
shields. _M._
=Virtus post nummos=--After money virtue.
_Hor._
=Virtus probata florebit=--Approved virtue will 45
flourish. _M._
=Virtus, recludens immeritis mori / Cœlum,
negata tentat iter via; / Cœtusque vulgares,
et udam / Spernit humum fugiente penna=--Virtue,
opening heaven to those who deserve not
to die, explores her way by a path to others
denied, and spurns with soaring wing the vulgar
crowds and the foggy earth. _Hor._
=Virtus repulsæ nescia sordidæ / Intaminatis
fulget honoribus; / Nec sumit aut ponit
secures / Arbitrio popularis auræ=--Virtue,
which knows no base repulse, shines with unsullied
honours, neither receives nor resigns the
fasces (_i.e._, badges of office) at the will of popular
caprice. _Hor._
=Virtus requiei nescia sordidæ=--Virtue which
knows no mean repose. _M._
=Virtus semper viridis=--Virtue is always flourishing
(_lit._ green). _M._
=Virtus sola nobilitat=--Virtue alone confers nobility. 50
_M._
=Virtus vincit invidiam=--Virtue subdues envy. _M._
=Virtute et opera=--By virtue and industry. _M._
=Virtute, non astutia=--By virtue, not by cunning.
_M._
=Virtute, non verbis=--By virtue, not by word. _M._
=Virtute quies=--In virtue there is tranquillity.
_M._
=Virtutem doctrina paret, naturane donet?=--Does
training produce virtue, or does nature bestow
it? _Hor._
=Virtutem incolumem odimus, / Sublatam ex
oculis quærimus invidi=--We in our envy hate
virtue when present, but seek after her when she
is removed out of our sight. _Hor._
=Virtuti nihil obstat et armis=--Nothing can withstand
valour and arms. _M._
=Virtuti non armis fido=--I trust to virtue, not to 5
arms. _M._
=Virtutibus obstat / Res angusta domi=--Straitened
domestic means obstruct the path to virtue.
_Juv._
=Virtutis avorum præmium=--The reward of the
valour of my forefathers. _M._
=Virtutis expers verbis jactans gloriam / Ignotos
fallit, notis est derisui=--A fellow who brags
of his prowess and is devoid of courage, imposes
on strangers but is the jest of those who know
him. _Phædrus._
=Virtutis fortuna comes=--Fortune is the companion
of valour. _M._
=Vis comica=--Comic power, or a talent for 10
comedy.
=Vis consili expers mole ruit sua / Vim temperatam
Di quoque provehunt / In majus;
idem odere vires / Omne nefas animo moventes=--Force,
without judgment, falls by its
own weight; moreover, the gods promote well-regulated
force to further advantage; but they
detest force that meditates every crime. _Hor._
=Vis inertiæ=--The inert property or resisting
power of matter.
=Vis unita fortior=--Power is strengthened by
union. _M._
=Vis viva=--The power residing in a body in virtue
of its motion.
=Visage fardé=--A painted, or dissembling, countenance. 15
_Fr._
=Visible ploughmen and hammermen there have
been, ever from Cain and Tubal Cain downwards;
but where does your accumulated
agricultural, metallurgic, and other manufacturing
skill lie warehoused?= _Carlyle._
=Vita brevis, ars longa=--Life is short, art is
long.
=Vita dum superest, bene est=--If only life remain,
I am content. _Mæcenas._
=Vita hominis sine literis mors est=--Life without
letters is death. _M._
=Vita est hominum quasi quum ludas tesseris=--The 20
life of man is like a game with dice. _Ter._
=Vita sine proposito vaga est=--A life without a
purpose is a rambling one. _Sen._
=Vitæ est avidus, quisquis non vult / Mundo
secum pereunte mori=--He is greedy of life who
is unwilling to die when the world around him is
perishing. _Sen._
=Vitæ philosophia dux, virtutis indagatrix=--O
philosophy, thou guide of life and discoverer of
virtue. _Cic._
=Vitæ post-scenia celant=--They conceal the secret
actions of their lives (_lit._ what goes on behind the
scenes). _Lucret._
=Vitæ summa brevis spem nos vetat inchoare= 25
=longam=--The short span of life forbids us to spin
out hope to any length. _Hor._
=Vitæ via virtus=--Virtue is the way of life. _M._
=Vital truth is in its very nature self-evident;
carries its witness within itself, and needs
only to be understood to be at once accepted
as true.= _Ed._
=Vitam impendere vero=--To devote one's life to
the truth. _Juv._
=Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia=--Fortune
rules this life, and not wisdom. _Cic._
=Vitanda est improba Siren / Desidia=--You must 30
avoid sloth, that wicked Syren. _Hor._
=Vitavi denique culpam, / Non laudem merui=--I
have, in brief, avoided what is censurable, not
merited what is commendable. _Hor._
=Vitia nobis sub virtutum nomine obrepunt=--Vices
steal upon us under the name of virtues.
_Sen._
=Vitia otii negotio discutienda sunt=--The vice of
doing nothing is only to be shaken off by doing
something. _Sen._
=Vitiis nemo sine nascitur; optimos ille / Qui
minimis urgetur=--No man is born without
faults; he is the best who is oppressed with
fewest. _Hor._
=Vitiosum est ubique, quod nimium est=--Too 35
much of anything is in every case a defect. _Sen._
=Vitium commune omnium est, / Quod nimium
ad rem in senecta attenti sumus=--It is a fault
common to us all, that in old age we become
too much attached to worldly interests. _Ter._
=Viva voce=--By the living voice.
=Vivat Rex= _or_ =Regina=--Long live the king or
queen.
=Vive la bagatelle!=--Success to trifling! _Fr._
=Vive la nation!=--Long live the nation! _Fr._ 40
=Vive ut vivas=--Live that you may live. _M._
=Vive, valeque=--Long life to you and farewell. _M._
=Vivent les gueux!=--Long live the beggars! _Fr._
=Vivere est cogitare=--Living is thinking. _Cic._
=Vivere militare est=--To live is to fight. _Sen._ 45
=Vivere sat vincere=--To conquer is to live enough.
_M._
=Vivere si recte nescis, decede peritis=--If you
know not how to live aright, quit the company of
those who do. _Hor._
=Vivida vis animi=--The strong force of genius.
_Lucret._
=Vivimus aliena fiducia=--We live by trusting one
another. _Pliny the elder._
=Vivit post funera virtus=--Virtue survives the 50
grave. _M._
=Vivite fortes, / Fortiaque adversis opponite
pectora rebus=--Live as brave men, and breast
adversity with stout hearts. _Hor._
=Vivitur exiguo melius: natura beatis / Omnibus
esse dedit, si quis cognoverit uti=--Men
live best upon a little: nature has ordained all to
be happy, if they would but learn how to use her
gifts. _Claud._
=Vivitur parvo bene, cui paternum / Splendet in
mensa tenui salinum; / Nec leves somnos
timor aut cupido / Sordidus aufert=--He lives
well on little on whose frugal board the paternal
salt-cellar shines, and whose soft slumbers are
not disturbed by fear or the sordid passion for
gain. _Hor._
=Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui, / Quæ vos
ad cœlum fertis rumore secundo=--I live and
am a king, as soon as I have left those interests
of the city, which you exalt to the skies in such
laudation. _Hor._
=Vivre, c'est penser et sentir son âme=--To live
is to think, and feel one has a soul of his own.
_Fr._
=Vivre n'est pas respirer; c'est agir=--Living is
not breathing; it is acting. _Rousseau._
=Vivunt in Venerem frondes, etiam nemus omne
per altum / Felix arbor amat; nutant ad
mutua palmæ / Fœdera, populeo suspirat
populus ictu, / Et platani platanis, alnoque
assibilat alnus=--The leaves live to love, and
over the whole lofty grove each happy tree loves;
palm nods to palm in mutual pledge of love; the
poplar sighs for the poplar's embrace; plane
whispers to plane, and alder to alder. _Claud.,
in anticipation of the sexual system of Linnæus._
=Vix a te videor posse tenere manus=--I feel
hardly able to keep my hands off you. _Ovid._
=Vix decimus quisque est, qui ipse sese noverit=--Hardly 5
one man in ten knows himself.
_Plaut._
=Vix ea nostra voco=--I scarcely call these things
our own. _M._
=Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona / Multi; sed
omnes illacrymabiles / Urgentur, ignotique
longa / Nocte, carent quia vate sacro=--Many
brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all of
them, unwept and unknown, are o'erwhelmed in
endless night, because no sacred bard was there
to sing their praises. _Hor._
=Vixi dubius, anxius morior, nescio quo vado=--I
have lived in doubt, I die in anxiety, and I
know not whither I go. _Ascribed to a Pope of
Rome._
=Voce d'uno, voce di niuno=--Voice of one, voice
of none. _It. Pr._
=Vogue la galère!=--Come what may! _Fr._ 10
=Voilà le soleil d'Austerlitz=--That is the sun of
Austerlitz. _Napoleon._
=Voilà une autre chose=--That's quite another
matter. _Fr._
=Voilà une femme qui a des lunes=--There is a
woman who is full of whims (_lit._ has moons).
_Fr. Pr._
=Volenti non fit injuria=--An injury cannot be done
to a consenting party, _i.e._, if he consents or connives,
he cannot complain. _L._
=Volez de vos propres ailes=--Do for yourself (_lit._ 15
fly with your own wings). _Fr. Pr._
=Voll, toll=--Full, foolish. _Ger. Pr._
=Voll Weisheit sind des Schicksals Fügungen=--Full
of wisdom are the ordinations of Fate.
_Schiller._
=Vollkommenheit ist die Norm des Himmels; /
Vollkommenes Wollen, die Norm des Menschen=--Perfection
is the rule of heaven; to will
the perfect, that of man. _Goethe._
=Volo non valeo=--I am willing but unable. _M._
=Volte face=--A change of front. _Fr._ 20
=Voluntas non potest cogi=--The will cannot be
forced.
=Voluptates commendat rarior usus=--Pleasures
are enhanced that are sparingly enjoyed. _Juv._
=Vom Rechte, das mit uns geboren ist, / Von
dem ist, leider! nie die Frage=--Of the
right that is born with us, of that unhappily
there is never a question. _Goethe, Mephisto in
"Faust."_
=Vom Sein zum Sein geht alles Leben über--/
Zum Nichtsein ist kein Schritt in der Natur=--All
life passes over from being to being. There
is no step in Nature into non-being. _Tiedge._
=Vom sichern Port lässt sich's gemächlich= 25
=rathen=--It is easy to give advice from a port of
safety. _Schiller._
=Vom Vater hab' ich die Statur, / Des Lebens
ernstes Führen; / Von Mütterchen die Frohnatur, /
Und Lust zu fabulieren=--From my
father inherit I stature and the earnest conduct
of life; from motherkin my cheerful disposition
and pleasure in fanciful invention. _Goethe, of
himself._
=Von der Gewalt, die alle Wesen bindet, /
Befreit der Mensch sich, der sich überwindet=--From
the power which constrains every
creature man frees himself by overcoming himself.
_Goethe._
=Von der Menschheit--du kannst von ihr nie
gross genug denken; / Wie du im Busen
sie trägst, prägst du in Thaten sie aus=--Of
humanity thou canst never think greatly enough;
as thou bearest it in thy bosom, thou imprintest
it in thy deeds. _Schiller._
=Vor dem Glauben / Gilt keine Stimme der
Natur=--In matters of faith the voice of nature
has no standing (before the Inquisition).
_Schiller._
=Vor dem Tode erschrickst du? Du wünchest= 30
=unsterblich zu leben! / Leb' im Ganzen!
Wenn du lange dahin bist, es bleibt=--Art
thou afraid of death? Thou wishest for immortality?
Live in the whole! When thou art long
gone, it remains. _Schiller._
=Vor Leiden kann nur Gott dich wahren, /
Unmuth magst du dir selber sparen=--From
suffering God alone can guard thee; from ill-humour
thou canst guard thyself. _Geibel._
=Vorwärts=--Forward. _M. of Blücher._
=Vorwärts musst du / Denn rückwärts kannst
du nun nicht mehr=--Forwards must thou, for
backwards canst thou now no more. _Schiller._
=Vos finesses sont cousues de fil blanc=--Your arts
are easily seen through (_lit._ sewed with white
thread). _Fr. Pr._
=Vota vita mea=--My life is devoted. _M._ 35
=Vote it as you please; there is a company of
poor men that will spend all their blood before
they see it settled so.= _Cromwell._
=Votes should be weighed, not counted.= _Schiller._
=Vouloir c'est pouvoir=--Where there's a will,
there's a way (_lit._ to will is to be able). _Fr.
Pr._
=Vous bridez le cheval par la queue=--You begin
at the wrong end (_lit._ bridle the horse by the
tail). _Fr. Pr._
=Vous êtes orfèvre, Monsieur Josse!=--You are a 40
goldsmith, Monsieur Josse! _i.e._, an interested
party. _Molière._
=Vous ne jouez donc pas le whist, Monsieur?
Hélas! quelle triste vieillesse vous vous
préparez!=--Not play at whist, sir? Alas! what
a dreary old age you are preparing for yourself.
_Talleyrand._
=Vous prenez tout ce qu'il dit au pied de la
lettre=--You take everything he says literally.
_Fr. Pr._
=Vous voulez prendre la lune avec les dents=--You
attempt impossibilities (_lit._ wish to take the
moon with your teeth). _Fr. Pr._
=Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms.=
_Pr._
=Vox audita perit, litera scripta manet=--The 45
word that is heard perishes, the letter that is
written remains.
=Vox clamantis in deserto=--The voice of one crying
in the wilderness. _Vulgate._
=Vox et præterea nihil=--A voice and nothing
more.
=Vox faucibus hæsit=--His voice stuck fast in his
throat.
=Vox is the God of this universe.= _Carlyle._
=Vox populi, vox Dei=--The voice of the people is 5
the voice of God.
=Vox tantum atque ossa supersunt. / Vox
manet=--The voice and bones are all that's left;
the voice remains. _Ovid._
=Voyez comme il brûle le pavé=--See how fast he
drives (_lit._, burns the pavement). _Fr. Pr._
=Vulgar opulence fills the street from wall to
wall of the houses, and begrudges all but
the gutter to everybody whose sleeve is a
little worn at the elbows.= _John Weiss._
=Vulgarity consists in a deadness of the heart
and body, resulting from prolonged, and
especially from inherited conditions of "degeneracy,"
or literally "unracing;" gentlemanliness
being another name for intense
humanity. And vulgarity shows itself in
dulness of heart, not in rage or cruelty, but
in inability to feel or conceive noble character
or emotion. Dulness of bodily sense and
general stupidity are its material manifestations.=
_Ruskin._
=Vulgarity in manners defiles fine garments= 10
=more than mud.= _Plautus._
=Vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa,
æstimat=--The masses judge of few things by
the truth, of most things by opinion. _Cic._
=Vultus est index animi=--The countenance is the
index of the mind. _Pr._