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In facilč ą virtute desciscentes.
Easily deflected from the right course
Parva velut limax Remora spreto[1] impete venti,
Remorumque ratem sistere sola potest.
Sic quosdam ingenio & virtute ad sydera vectos,
Detinet in medio tramite causa levis.
Anxia lis veluti est, vel qui meretricius ardor
Egregiis iuvenes sevocat ą studiis.[2]
Just as the little slug, the remora, scorning the impetus of wind and oars, can by itself stop a ship from moving, so some trivial reason holds back in mid-course people who through intellect and ability are on their way to the stars: for example, a worrying law-suit, or that desire for whores which entices young men away from their good studies.
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A ceulx qui facilement lais-
sent vertus.
Il est des gens, dont la nature
Est si noble, heureuse, & puissante,
Que silz suyvoient leur adventure,
Ilz auroient vers tout bon heur sente:
Peu de cas retient leur entente,
Com Remora grand nef retient.
Ainsi amours proces pour rente,
Lestude a vifz espritz detient.
Aultrement.
Aulcuns vigoureux desperit
Se arrestent a petit de chose,
Ce pendant leur temps se perit,
Aux amours proces noise enclose:
Ilz laissent loix, vers latins, prose,
Pour satisfaire a leur facon.
Cest comme la nef qui repose,
Par Remora petit poisson.
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- 'litterae', symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ literature; 'Lettere' (Ripa) [48C90] Search | Browse Iconclass
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MENTEM NON FORMAM
plus pollere.
Intelligence matters, not beauty
Ingressa vulpes in Choragi pergulam,
Fabre expolitum invenit humanum caput.
Sic eleganter fabricatum, ut spiritus
Solum deesset, caeteris vivesceret,
Id illa cum sumpsisset in manus ait,
Hoc[1] quale caput est, sed cerebrum non habet.[2]
A fox, entering the store-room of a theatrical producer, found an actor’s mask, skilfully shaped, so finely fashioned that the spirit alone was missing, in all else it seemed alive. Taking it up, the fox addressed it - What a head is this, but it has no brain!
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