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Quum illuc ventum est, illinc lubet, he is tired out with everything, displeased with all, weary of his life: Nec bene domi, nec militiae, neither at home nor abroad, errat, et praeter vitam vivitur, he wanders and lives besides himself.
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And being so alone, I began to sing lowly that hymn of Saint Bernard -- ` Hic breve vivitur, hic breve plangitur, '[Note 1] when of a sudden I was aroused from my singing by a sound like a groaning, and that very near.
Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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"_Sic vivitur_" -- "So goes the world;" "_Tempori serviendum est_" -- "We must bend to circumstances" -- these are not the noblest mottoes, but they are acted upon continually by the most respectable men in public and private life, who do not open their hearts to their friends so unreservedly as Cicero does to his friend Atticus.
Cicero Ancient Classics for English Readers Rev. W. Lucas Collins 1852
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Cluny, in his once famous hymn, "Hic breve vivitur," mingles the two conceptions of the unseen world in inextricable confusion.
Literary and General Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847
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The hedge of property, which is a hedge of protection to men's estates, shall be plucked up, and every man shall think all that his own which he can lay his hands on (vivitur ex rapto, non hospes ab hospite tutus -- they live on the spoil, and the rites of hospitality are all violated); and yet, when men thus catch at that which is none of their own, they are not satisfied.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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{29} St. Austin observes, Amor ipse ordinate amandus est, quo bene amatur quod amandum sit, ut sit in nobis virtue qua vivitur bene, _i. e.
Human Nature and Other Sermons Joseph Butler 1722
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They may give for their mottoe, vivitur ex rapto, stealing from their honest neighbours what they sometimes require.
The lay of the last minstrel, a poem. With Ballads and lyrical pieces Walter Scott 1812
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Unde vivitur, necefli 'tatis cft accipere, ca - ritatis eft przbere: noa tanquam venale litEvao -.
Diurnale Noviomense. ad usum regalis ecclesiæ S. Quintini accommodatum. Pars hiemalis (æstiva). 1774
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Non breve vivitur, non breve plangitur, retribuetur_. '"
In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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Softly I said -- [Note 8.] "` _Hic breve vivitur, hic breve plangitur, hic breve fletur;
In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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