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		<title>Horace -- Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep.  1 &#8220;To Maecenas,&#8221; l.  38ff (1.1.38-40) (20 BC) [tr. Creech (1684)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rash, the Lazy, Lover, none&#8217;s so wild, But may be tame, and may be wisely mild, If they consult true Vertue&#8217;s Rules with care, And lend to good advice a patient ear. [Invidus, iracundus, iners, vinosus, amator, nemo adeo ferus est, ut non mitescere possit, si modo culturae patientem commodet aurem.] (Source (Latin)). Other [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Rash, the Lazy, Lover, none&#8217;s so wild,<br />
But may be tame, and may be wisely mild,<br />
If they consult true Vertue&#8217;s Rules with care,<br />
And lend to good advice a patient ear.</p>
<p><em>[Invidus, iracundus, iners, vinosus, amator,<br />
nemo adeo ferus est, ut non mitescere possit,<br />
si modo culturae patientem commodet aurem.]</em></p>
<br><b>Horace</b> (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]<br><i>Epistles [Epistularum, Letters]</i>, Book 1, ep.  1 &#8220;To Maecenas,&#8221; l.  38ff (1.1.38-40) (20 BC) [tr. Creech (1684)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=eebo;c=eebo;idno=a44471.0001.001;node=A44471.0001.001:8;seq=1;rgn=div1;view=text#:~:text=The%20Rash%2C%20the,a%20patient%20ear." target="_blank">Source</a>)
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(<a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0539%3Abook%3D1%3Apoem%3D1#:~:text=invidus%2C%20iracundus,commodet%20aurem.">Source (Latin)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>Th'envyouse, angrye, drunken, slowe, the lover lewde and wylde<br>
None so outeragiouse, but in tyme he maye become full mylde.<br>
If he to good advertisemente will retche his listenyng eare,<br>
And meekely byde with pacience the counsaile he shall heare.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A03670.0001.001/1:7?rgn=div1;view=fulltext#:~:text=Th%27enuyouse%2C%20angrye%2C%20drunken,he%20shall%20heare.">Drant</a> (1567)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>The Envious, Wrathful, Sluggish, Drunkard, Lover:<br>
No Beast so wild, but may be tam'd, if he<br>
Will unto Precepts listen patiently.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=eebo;c=eebo;idno=a44478.0001.001;node=A44478.0001.001:8;seq=1;rgn=div1;view=text#:~:text=T%E2%80%A2e,Precepts%20listen%20patiently.">Fanshawe</a>; ed. Brome (1666)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>The slave to envy, anger, wine, or love, <br>
The wretch of sloth, its excellence shall prove: <br>
Fierceness itself shall hear its rage away. <br>
When listening calmly to the instructive lay.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresepistlesi00hora/page/164/mode/2up?q=%22envy%2C+anger%22">Francis</a> (1747)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>The heart with envy cold -- with anger hot, <br>
The libertine, the sluggard and the sot -- <br>
No wretch so savage, but, if he resign <br>
His soul to culture, wisdom can refine.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epodes_Satires_and_Epistles_of_Horac/TPgDAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22vice%20to%20renounce%22">Howes</a> (1845)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>The envious, the choleric, the indolent, the slave to wine, to women -- none is so savage that he can not be tamed, if he will only lend a patient ear to discipline.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_works_of_Horace/First_Book_of_Epistles#:~:text=The%20envious%2C%20the%20choleric%2C%20the%20indolent%2C%20the%20slave%20to%20wine%2C%20to%20women%E2%80%94none%20is%20so%20savage%20that%20he%20can%20not%20be%20tamed%2C%20if%20he%20will%20only%20lend%20a%20patient%20ear%20to%20discipline.">Smart/Buckley</a> (1853)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Run through the list of faults; whate'er you be,<br>
Coward, pickthank, spitfire, drunkard, debauchee,<br>
Submit to culture patiently, you'll find<br>
Her charms can humanize the rudest mind.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Satires,_Epistles_%26_Art_of_Poetry_of_Horace/Ep1-1#:~:text=Run%20through%20the%20list%20of%20faults%3B%20whate%27er%20you%20be%2C%0ACoward%2C%20pickthank%2C%20spitfire%2C%20drunkard%2C%20debauchee%2C%0ASubmit%20to%20culture%20patiently%2C%20you%27ll%20find%0AHer%20charms%20can%20humanize%20the%20rudest%20mind.">Conington</a> (1874)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>However coarse in grain a man may be,<br>
Drone, brawler, makebate, drunkard, debauchee,<br>
A patient ear to culture let him lend,<br>
He's sure to turn out gentler in the end.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/worksofhorace02horauoft/page/266/mode/2up?q=%22coarse+in+grain%22">Martin</a> (1881)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Are you envious, irascible, inert, given to wine or immorality? No person is so savage that he cannot grow milder, provided he lend a patient ear to civilization's culture.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Works_of_Horace/-f8pAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22unable%20to%20see%22">Elgood</a> (1893)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>The slave to envy, anger, sloth, wine, lewdness -- no one is so savage that he cannot be tamed, if only he lend to treatment a patient ear.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresepistlesa00horauoft/page/254/mode/2up?q=%22slave+to+envy%22">Fairclough</a> (Loeb) (1926)]</blockquote><br>



<blockquote>The envious, passionate, slothful, drunken, lewd — <br>
No man so savage but he drops the mood,<br>
Lend he but patient ear to counsel good.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/completeworksofh0000casp_g2w3/page/306/mode/2up?q=%22the+envious%2C+passionate%22">Murison</a>, ed. Kraemer (1936)]</blockquote><br>





<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">The envious man,<br>
The sorehead, the lazy lout, the drinker, the lover:<br>
No one is such a beast as not to be tamed<br>
By lending a patient ear to moral advice.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresanndepist0000hora/page/166/mode/2up?q=sorehead">Palmer Bovie</a> (1959)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Envious, wrathful, lazy, drunken men, lewd lovers too, <br>
none is so thoroughly wild a beast he can't be tamed, <br>
if only he'll lend for cultivation's sake an open ear.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/horacessatiresep0000hora/page/50/mode/2up?q=%22envious%2C+wrathful%22">Fuchs</a> (1977)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Jealousy,<br>
Anger, laziness, drunkenness, lust: everything<br>
Can be cured, nothing is so wild <br>
That patient teaching will ever fail you.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/essentialhoraceo0000hora/page/198/mode/2up?q=%22anger%2C+laziness%22">Raffel</a> (1983)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Nobody's so far gone in savagery --<br>
A slave of envy, wrath, lust, drunkenness, sloth --<br>
That he can't be civilized, if he'll only listen<br>
Patiently to the doctor's good advice.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Epistles_of_Horace/FUyHO-GZ9A8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22gone%20in%20savagery%22">Ferry</a> (2001)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Whether he’s envious, choleric, indolent, drunken or lustful -- <br>
no one is so unruly that he can’t become more gentle,<br>
if only he listens with care to what his trainer tells him.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/satiresofhoracep00hora/page/78/mode/2up?q=%22envious%2C+choleric%22">Rudd</a> (2005 ed.)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Envious, irascible, idle, drunken, lustful,<br>
No man’s so savage he can’t be civilised,<br>
If he’ll attend patiently to self-cultivation.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/HoraceEpistlesBkIEpI.php#anchor_Toc98156301:~:text=Envious%2C%20irascible%2C%20idle,to%20self%2Dcultivation.">Kline</a> (2015)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Joubert, Joseph -- Pensées [Thoughts], ch.  5 &#8220;Des Passions et des Affections de l’Âme [On the Soul],&#8221; ¶  13, 1805 entry (1850 ed.) [tr. Auster (1983)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In every kind of debauch there enters much coldness of soul. It is a conscious and voluntary abuse of pleasure. [Il entre, dans toute espèce de débauche, beaucoup de froideur d&#8217;àme; elle est un abus réfléchi et volontaire du plaisir.] (Source (French)). Other translations: Into every kind of excess there enters much coldness of soul; [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In every kind of debauch there enters much coldness of soul. It is a conscious and voluntary abuse of pleasure.</p>
<p><em>[Il entre, dans toute espèce de débauche, beaucoup de froideur d&#8217;àme; elle est un abus réfléchi et volontaire du plaisir.]</em></p>
<br><b>Joseph Joubert</b> (1754–1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet<br><i>Pensées [Thoughts]</i>, ch.  5 <i>&#8220;Des Passions et des Affections de l’Âme</i> [On the Soul],&#8221; ¶  13, 1805 entry (1850 ed.) [tr. Auster (1983)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/translations0000unse_s5s8/page/126/mode/2up?q=debauch" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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(<a href="https://archive.org/details/pensesessaisma01joubuoft/page/180/mode/2up?ref=ol&q=%22beaucoup+de+froideur%22">Source (French)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>Into every kind of excess there enters much coldness of soul; it is a thoughtful and voluntary abuse of pleasure.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/JoubertSomeThoughts/page/n65/mode/2up?q=coldness">Calvert</a> (1866), ch. 5]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>There is much coldness of soul in every kind of excess; -- it is the deliberate and voluntary abuse of pleasure.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/joubertaselecti00lyttgoog/page/n70/mode/2up?q=%22voluntary+abuse%22">Lyttelton</a> (1899), ch. 4, ¶ 11]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>There is an element of callousness in every kind of dissipation; it is a deliberate, willful abuse of pleasure.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015033374441&seq=73&q1=abuse">Collins</a> (1928), ch. 5]</blockquote><br>
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		<title>Goethe, Johann von -- Sprüche in Prosa: Maximen und Reflexionen [Proverbs in Prose: Maxims and Reflections] (1833) [tr. Saunders (1893), #489]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing is more frightful than imagination without taste. [Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.] From Wilhelm Meister&#8217;s Journeyman Years (1829). (Source (German)). Other translations: There is nothing so horrible as imagination devoid of taste. [tr. Rönnfeldt (1900)] There is nothing more awful than imagination devoid of taste. [tr. Stopp (1995), #507] There is [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nothing is more frightful than imagination without taste.</p>
<p><em>[Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]</em></p>
<br><b>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</b> (1749–1832) German poet, statesman, scientist<br><i>Sprüche in Prosa: Maximen und Reflexionen [Proverbs in Prose: Maxims and Reflections]</i> (1833) [tr. Saunders (1893), #489] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/maximsreflection00goetrich/page/172/mode/2up?q=%22imagination+without+taste%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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From <i>Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years</i> (1829). (<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Spr%C3%BCche_in_Prosa/2HsQAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22ohne%20Geschmack%22">Source (German)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>There is nothing so horrible as imagination devoid of taste.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/criticismsreflec00goet/page/148/mode/2up?q=%22imagination+devoid+of+taste%22">Rönnfeldt</a> (1900)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>There is nothing more awful than imagination devoid of taste.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/maxims-and-reflections-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/page/66/mode/2up?q=%22devoid+of+taste%22">Stopp</a> (1995),  #507] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste.<br>
[<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Beautiful_Thoughts_from_German_and_Spani/Dh2nkXsUCqgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22nothing+more+fearful+than+imagination%22&pg=PA159&printsec=frontcover">E.g.</a> (1868)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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