Saepe Quotes

#1. It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate.
[Lat., Saepe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.]

Quintus Curtius Rufus

#2. A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
[Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]

Quintus Curtius Rufus

#3. The wild boar is often held by a small dog.
[Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.]

Ovid

#4. Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses

Ovid

#5. in Ovid, difficulty is what wakes up the genius (ingenium mala saepe movent),

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#6. And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
[Lat., Itidemque ut saepe jam in multis locis,
Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni.]

Plautus

#7. Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].

Publilius Syrus

#8. Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent (How often the greatest talents are shrouded in obscurity)

Plautus

#9. Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#10. Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice.
[Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]

Horace

#11. I think I need you to save me this time.

Cassia Leo

#12. Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.

Thomas A Kempis

#13. Be candid with everyone.

Jack Welch

#14. Your soul shines through even if you haven't got mascara on

Louise Rennison

#15. Anyone else find it funny that Bernie Madoff's last name is a homophone of 'made-off'?

David C. Holley

#16. There are pearls in the deepest fathoms of the Self, but to get them you will have to go through unimaginable perils.

Abhijit Naskar

#17. The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.

Marianne Williamson

#18. You will be known as the One who protected the Eight. - Hilde to One

Pittacus Lore

#19. Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed.

Louis Menand

#20. Photography is an act of love.

Jay Maisel