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Mentem non formam plus pollere.
Intelligence matters, not beauty
XLVIII.
Ingressa vulpes in Choragi pergulam,
Fabrč expolitum invenit humanum caput,
Sic eleganter fabricatum, ut spiritus
Solům deesset, caeteris vivisceret:
Id illa cům 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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Verstand giltet mehr dan hupsche.
XLVIII.
In ains bildschnitzers hawß on gfer
Ein fuchs eins menschen hawpt erfand,
Woelchs so er lang bsach hin und her,
Sagt er, das ist ein wunder thand,
Das hawpt so wercklich gmacht von hand,
So schoen geziert, hat doch kayn hirn.
Offt einen [=einem]
acht man groß verstand,
Den man allein siht an der stirn.
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IN FACILE A VIRTUTE
desciscentes.
Easily deflected from the right course
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Parva velut limax remora spreto[1] impeti venti,
Remorumque ratem sistere sola potest.
Si [=Sic]
quosdam ingenio & virtute ad sydera vectos,
Detinet in medio tramite causa levis.
Anxia lis veluti est, vel qui meretricius ardor,
Egregiis iuvenes sevocat ŕ 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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