improbus

Not a soul can be worth anything, unless he knows how to be good and bad both. improbis cum improbus sit, harpaget, furibus furetur quod queat, vorsipellem frugi convenit esse hominem, pectus quoi sapit: bonus sit bonis, malus sit malis; 659-660 utcumque res sit, ita animum habeat.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

Cerberus et nullas hodie petat improbus umbras; 25

Cornelia's Plea 1912

'_Labor improbus omnia vincit_' tells him not half so much as a tale of the labours of

Poetry Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

So indomitable a fellow is Man, _improbus Homo_; and among men in his generation Captain

Lady Good-for-Nothing Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

But the _labor improbus_ knocks the stuffing out of all difficulties, as you put it in your neat American way.

Paul Patoff 1881

"Fugit improbus ac me sub cultro linquit," he said appealingly, secure in Hazlet's ignorance of the Latin tongue; but Mr Admer only shook his head significantly, and disappeared.

Julian Home 1867

João, though inscribed 'Omnia vincit improbus labor,' and though provided with the most expensive modern appliances, is understood not to be a success for the Companhia Fabril d'Assucar.

To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855

Cor bonum, adest mihi; nescio an vires aderint: tamen 'labor omnia vincit improbus.'

Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852

"_Labor omnia vincit improbus_" said he to himself.

The Bertrams Anthony Trollope 1848

This undertaking was executed with ardor, but did not immediately succeed — our descent was not skillfully planned — the water did not run, the earth falling in and stopping up the burrow; yet, though all went contrary, nothing discouraged us, Labor omnia vincit labor improbus.

The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1782