carior

I shall now live mihi carior, with a higher opinion of my own merit. 'I am, my Lord, Your Lordship's most obliged, Most grateful, and Most humble servant, SAM. JOHNSON. 'September, 1784. Upon this unexpected failure I abstain from presuming to make any remarks, or to offer any conjectures. Having after repeated reasonings , brought Dr.

James Boswell - Life of Johnson, Volume 4 : 1780-1784

I shall now live mihi carior, with a higher opinion of my own merit. I am, my Lord, your Lordship's most obliged, most grateful, and most humble servant, 'September, 1784. Upon this unexpected failure I abstain from presuming to make any remarks, or to offer any conjectures.

James Boswell - Boswell's Life of Johnson : Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood

The theory of religion would then be that the crude idea of propitiatory and conciliatory sacrifice would fall to the ground; that to use the inspired words of the old Roman poet "Aptissima quaeque dabunt Di. Carior est illis homo quam sibi;"

Arthur Christopher Benson - From a College Window

'Pro jucundis aptissima quæque dabunt di; carior est illis homo quam sibi. That thought has left me patient, if not glad, in many a bitter hour.... You are never out of my thoughts." And this letter leads me naturally to the second great principle that pervaded all his writings—"the education of individuals."

Arthur Christopher Benson - Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge : Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College