Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Content thyself to be obscurely good; / When 25 vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, / The post of honour is a private station. Addison.

Content with poverty, my soul I arm; / And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. Dryden after Hor.

Contesa vecchia tosto si fa nuova—An old feud is easily renewed. It. Pr.

Conticuere omnes, intentique ora tenebant—All were at once silent and listened intent. Virg.

Continued eloquence wearies. Pascal.

Contra bonos mores—Against good morals. 30

Contra malum mortis, non est medicamen in hortis—Against the evil of death there is no remedy in the garden.

Contraria contrariis curantur—Contraries are cured by contraries.

Contrast increases the splendour of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power. Ruskin.

Contrat social—The social compact, specially Rousseau's theory thereof.