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"Nemo altero fragilior est; nemo in crastinum sui certior." For anything I have to do before I die, the longest leisure would appear too short, were it but an hour's business I had to do.
T. Great; why don’t you say greatest? “maxime” is superlative. C. The Latins use the superlative, when they only mean the positive. T. You mean, when English uses the positive; can you give me an instance of what you mean? C. Cicero always speaks of others as amplissimi, optimi, doctissimi, clarissimi. T. Do they ever use the comparative for the positive? C. thinks, then, Certior factus sum.
"But believe, sire, that it is for the love of you alone that I make this sacrifice." "Oh! yes, ma mie, I know you well, madame, and my brother of France also, he who speaks so well of you in this letter, and adds, 'Fiat sanum exemplum statim, atque res certior eveniet. Doubtless, ma mie, it is you who give this good example." And Henri kissed the cold hand of Marguerite.
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