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"What would you say if you read my last letter to Appius?" You would open your eyes if you knew how I have flattered Appius that was his meaning. "Sic vivitur!" "It is so we live now." When I read this I feel compelled to ask whether there was an opportunity for any other way of living.
And so the modern evangelical of the Venn and Newton school, to whom mysticism is neology and nehushtan, when he speaks of "spiritual experiences," uses the adjective in its purely mystic sense; while Bernard of Cluny, in his once famous hymn, "Hic breve vivitur," mingles the two conceptions of the unseen world in inextricable confusion.
By Francis Meres, Maister of Arts in both Universities. On the title-page is the motto 'Vivitur ingenio, cetera mortis erunt. It was printed by P. Short for Cuthbert Burbie.
"Sic vivitur" "So goes the world;" "Tempori serviendum est" "We must bend to circumstances" these are not the noblest mottoes, but they are acted upon continually by the most respectable men in public and private life, who do not open their hearts to their friends so unreservedly as Cicero does to his friend Atticus.
It had met him promptly at the end of his first number, and it had impressed him as a curious bit of irony, following as it did upon the closing phrases of Spe modo Vivitur. Were his crowns to be only the thornless, characterless ones that went with his profession?
An age which has adopted as its most popular hymn a paraphrase of the mediaeval monk's "Hic breve vivitur," and in which stalwart public-school boys are bidden in their chapel worship to tell the Almighty God of Truth that they lie awake weeping at night for joy at the thought that they will die and see Jerusalem the Golden is doubtless, a pious and devout age; but not at least as yet an age in which natural theology is likely to attain a high, a healthy, or a scriptural development.
When I was a boy, my father often repeated to me this proverb: "Dico tibi verum, honestas, optima rerum, Nunquam servili sub nexu vivitur fili." This saying of the parental teacher of Wallace is recorded. It means, "Know of a certainty that virtue, the best of possessions, never can exist under the bond of servility."
Boy, are you there? as, in turning, his eye fell on Malcolm. 'Take warning: the straight road is the best. You see, I have never come to Jerusalem. Then again he murmured: "'Hic breve vivitur, hic breve plangitur, hic breve fletur; Non breve vivere, non breve plangere, retribuetur."
XX. 72 Senectutis autem nullus est certus terminus, recteque in ea vivitur, quoad munus offici exsequi et tueri possit mortemque contemnere, ex quo fit ut animosior etiam senectus sit quam adulescentia et fortior.
The man who had been able to live with a humanity, a moderation, and an honesty befitting a Christian, had not risen to that appreciation of the beauty of truth which an exercise of Christianity is supposed to exact. "Sed quid agas? Sic vivitur!" "What would you have me do? It is thus we live now!" This he exclaims in a letter to Cælius, written a short time before he left the province.
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