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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Si genus humanum et mortalia temnitis arma, At sperate Deos memores fandi atque nefandi."
Whenever his father considered a display of the son's powers in controversy to be capital, Denis, who knew the mollia tempora fandi, applied to him for a hat.
See ante, i. 71, and ii. 226. Captain Cook's third voyage. The first two volumes by Captain Cook; the last by Captain King. See ante, ii. 73, 228, 248; iii. 49. quae mollissima fandi Tempora. time wherein the word May softliest be said. MORRIS. Virgil, Aeneids, iv. 293. See ante, i. 71. See ante, i. 203, note 6. Boswell began to eat dinners in the Inner Temple so early as 1775.
He seldom, I believe, goes into company without an earnest desire to be useful to some one in it; but if circumstances are adverse; if the mollia tempora fandi does not present itself; he knows he should lose more than they would gain, by trying to make the occasion when he does not find it.
It is the abuse of a rule which nature suggests to every one. Every one looks out for the "mollia tempora fandi," and "mollia verba" too. Having thus explained what is meant by the economy as a rule of social intercourse between men of different religious, or, again, political, or social views, next I go on to state what I said in the Arians.
In substituting fortune for the object of his designs, the man of genius deprives himself of those heats of inspiration reserved for him who lives for himself; the mollia tempora fandi of Art. If he be subservient to the public taste, without daring to raise it to his own, the creature of his times has not the choice of his subjects, which choice is itself a sort of invention.
Could he be depended on for such self-sacrifice? Before leaving, he would have done anything at her request; but the mollia tempora fandi had now passed.
The time should also be judiciously made choice of. Every man has his particular times when he may be applied to with success, the mollia tempora fandi: but these times are not all the day long; they must be found out, watched, and taken advantage of.
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