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The famous passage in Seneca's tragedy, in which Medea asserts herself as sufficient to stand alone against the universe, contains its essence and is its complete expression. Nutr. Spes nulla monstrat rebus adflictis viam. Med. Qui nil potest sperare, desperet nihil. Nutr. Abiere Colchi; conjugis nulla est fides; Nihilque superest opibus e tantis tibi. Med.
The neglect of that ruined the princes of Italy and enabled Charles VIII. to conquer the fairest of European kingdoms with wooden spurs and a piece of chalk. In the Discorsi, lib. i. cap. 55, he calls Italy 'la coruttela del mondo, and judges that her case is desperate; 'non si può sperare nelle provincie che in questi tempi si veggono corrotte, come è l' Italia sopra tutte le altre.
"Cur hanc tibi, rector Olympi, Sollicitis visum mortalibus addere curam, Noscant venturas ut dira per omina clades?... Sit subitum, quodcumque paras; sit coeca futuri Mens hominum fati, liceat sperare timenti." Let the mind of men be blind to fate in store; let it be permitted to the timid to hope." "Ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit; miserum est enim, nihil proficientem angi,"
I repeat to you once more, you will do all that I have just said. LAUR. Sextus, mayhap, would pray the Gods to alter fate, to give him a better heart. ANT. He would receive the answer: Desine fata Deum flecti sperare precando. He cannot cause divine foreknowledge to lie. But what then will Sextus say? Will he not break forth into complaints against the Gods? Will he not say? What?
"Consul est impositus is nobis, quem nemo, praeter nos philosophos, aspicere sine suspiratu potest." Ib. i. 18. "Pompeius togulam illam pictam silentio tuetur suam." Ib. The "picta togula" means the triumphal robe which Pompey was allowed to wear. "Ceteros jam nosti; qui ita sunt stulti, ut amissa republica piscinas suas fore salvas sperare videantur." Ib. Ib., abridged.
Nunc sperare licet. Nobis Deus optime Quintum Reddito Nicoleon Eugeniumve patrem. and again: Hac sibi quam vivus construxit clauditur arca Corpore; nam Stygios mens habet atra lacus. Pius himself was not unconscious of the discrepancy between his old and his new self.
Atque hoc adhuc factum non est; quum vero factum fuerit, melius de scientiis sperare licebit." A considerable portion of lead must certainly have been added to the intellect of Bacon when he wrote this Aphorism.
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