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  • Propter hoc ipsum; amor ingenii neminem unquam divitem fecit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Aut ea quae vix summa ingenii ratione comprehendat, nulla ratione moveri putet?

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

  • Their wits indeed serve them to that sole purpose, to make sport, to break a scurrile jest, which is levissimus ingenii fructus, the froth of wit, as

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [2099] Nam qui ob literas emersisse illos credat, desipit; qui vero ingenii, eruditionis, experientiae, probitatis, pietatis, et Musarum id esse pretium putat (quod olim revera fuit, hodie promittitur) planissime insanit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Qui sunt subtilis ingenii, et multae perspicacitatis de facili incidunt in Melancholiam, lib.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Peri tamen studio et pietate conscribendae vitae ejus munus suscepi, et postquam sumptuosa condere pro fortuna non licuit, exiguo sed eo forte liberalis ingenii monumento justa sanctissimo cineri solventur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Those Grecian orators, summa vi ingenii et eloquentiae, set out the renowned overthrows at Thermopylae, Salamis, Marathon, Micale,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Scaliger and Cardan admire Suisset the Calculator, qui pene modum excessit humani ingenii, and yet [456] Lod.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Et illi qui sunt subtilis ingenii, et multae praemeditationis, de facili incidunt in melancholiam.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Idleness of the mind is much worse than this of the body; wit without employment is a disease [1549] Aerugo animi, rubigo ingenii: the rust of the soul,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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