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Their invariable motto is that if you wish for peace you must prepare for war "si vis pacem, para bellum" a notoriously false apophthegm, because armaments are provocative, not soothing, and the man who is a swash-buckler invites attack. It is needless to say that thousands of military men do not belong to this category: no one dreads war so much as the man who knows what it means.
Thus would this most famous, and formerly most learned, city of Greece have remained a stranger to the tomb of one of its most ingenious citizens, had it not been discovered by a man of Arpinum." To Archimedes is attributed the apophthegm: "Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, and with my own weight I will move the world."
To do Mrs Wilson justice, her nocturnal harangues upon such occasions not unfrequently terminated with this sage apophthegm, which always prefaced the producing of some provision a little better than ordinary, such as she now placed before him. She now eyed Mr Henry, as she called him, with great complacency, as he partook of her good cheer. "Muckle gude may it do ye, my bonny man.
On literary réclame, he says much that is true if not the whole truth, in the apophthegm for instance, 'You have to become famous before you can secure the attention which would give fame. Biffen, it is true, is a somewhat fantastic figure of an idealist, but Gissing cherished this grotesque exfoliation from a headline by Dickens and later in his career we shall find him reproducing one of Biffen's ideals with a singular fidelity.
Collier did so; and found that the moral of the Old Bachelor, the grave apophthegm which is to be a set-off against all the libertinism of the piece is contained in the following triplet: "What rugged ways attend the noon of life! Our sun declines, and with what anxious strife, What pain, we tug that galling load a wife."
Then said the prior of the convent: What should this drunken fellow do here? let him be carried to prison for troubling the divine service. Nay, said the monk, the wine service, let us behave ourselves so that it be not troubled; for you yourself, my lord prior, love to drink of the best, and so doth every honest man. Never yet did a man of worth dislike good wine, it is a monastical apophthegm.
In summer it will be full of the loveliest white water-lilies, though now you can see nothing but green weeds. He had left her side and gone a few paces away, but kept on speaking. 'One strange thing I can tell you about them, cousin the roots of that whitest of flowers make a fine black dye! What apophthegm founded upon that, thinkest thou, my father would drop for Dr Bayly?
As he said in an apophthegm with a deep melancholy lying at the bottom of it, you never can cite the example of a thoroughly happy man, for no one but the man himself knows anything about it. "By the side of people we love," he says very truly, "sentiment nourishes the intelligence as well as the heart, and we have little occasion to seek ideas elsewhere.
Readers of adequate culture were invited to exercise their learning and their wit in the conjectural completion of a sentence no quotation, but an original apophthegm whereof one word was represented by a blank.
In certain kinds of scientific argument any attempt at persuasion as such would be an impertinence: whether heat is a mode of motion, whether there are such infinitesimal bodies as the ions which physicists of to-day assume to explain certain new phenomena, whether matter consists of infinitesimal whirls of force in all such questions an argument appeals solely to the reason; and in such Bacon's favorite apophthegm has full sway, Dry light is ever the best.
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