„Taktgefühl kann nicht gelehrt nur angeboren werden.“
Sententiae P4, Übersetzung Wikiquote
Original lat.: "Pudor doceri non potest, nasci potest."
Zitate Publilius Syrus
„Der nächste Tag ist der Schüler des vorigen.“
Sententiae D1; meist zitiert als "Ein Tag belehrt den nächsten."
Original lat.: "Discipulus est prioris posterior dies." meist zitiert als "Dies diem docet."
„Wenn du Geld zu nutzen verstehst, ist es deine Dienerin; wenn du es aber nicht zu nutzen verstehst, deine Herrin.“
oft als Sententiae 47 geführt, aber nicht bei [Beckby], Übersetzung Wikiquote
Original lat.: "Pecunia, si uti scias, ancilla est, si nescias, domina."
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„Necessity gives the law without itself acknowledging one.“
Maxim 444
Variant translation: Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
Necessitas non habet legem, "Necessity has no law", is apparently of medieval origin. See Necessity for further variants.
Sentences
Original: (la) Necessitas dat legem non ipsa accipit.
„The judge is condemned when the guilty is absolved.“
Maxim 407
Adopted by the original Edinburgh Review magazine as its motto.
Sentences
Original: (la) Iudex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur.
„Whom Fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad.“
Maxim 911; one of the most famous renditions of the ancient Greek proverb (which is anonymous and dates to the 5th century BCE or earlier). The provenance of the proverb and its English versions is at Wikiquote's Euripides page, under the heading "Misattributed".
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Original: (la) Stultum facit fortuna, quem vult perdere.
„Be your money's master, not its slave.“
Maxim 657
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„In sterculino plurimum gallus potest.“
A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.
Maxim 357
Sentences
„Iudex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur.“
The judge is condemned when the guilty is absolved.
Maxim 407
Adopted by the original Edinburgh Review magazine as its motto.
Sentences
„Even a single hair casts its shadow.“
Maxim 228 http://books.google.com/books?id=_QQSAAAAIAAJ&q="even+a+single+hair+casts+its+shadow"&pg=PA28#v=onepage
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„To do two things at once is to do neither.“
Misattributed as Maxim 7, p. 13 https://books.google.com/books?id=GKFGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA13&dq=%22To+do+two+things+at+once+is+to+do+neither.%22
Variant of:
Duos qui sequitur lepores neutrum capit
Who chases two rabbits catches neither.
A Dictionary of Quotations in most frequent Use, David Evans Macdonnel, 1797, quoted in The Monthly Review, 1798, p. 467 https://books.google.com/books?id=KYhPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA467&dq=%22duos+qui+sequitur+lepores+neutrum+capit%22
Apparently of medieval or modern origin, not found in antiquity.
Misattributed
