Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature - Unknown

[830:1] See Terence, page [702].

[835:1] Stare super vias antiquas.—The Vulgate.

[836:1] Magna est veritas et prævalet—The Vulgate.

Usually quoted "Magna est veritas et prævalebit."

[837:1] See Pliny, page [717].

Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

Matthew ii. 18; Jeremiah xxxi. 15.