"Aurum" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... y que en el principio del libro contaba una revelacion que habia tenido el que lo compuso, estando de noche orando, que vio en la oscuridad una luz, y que della oyo que salia una voz que dijo: Quomodo obscuratum est aurum, mutatus est color optimus! y que temiendose este declarante no fuese algun mal libro, le habia mucha instancia que le dijese si habia en el alguna herejia, y que el dicho Fr. Luis de Leon le respondio que en lo de confesion le parescia que decia una herejia, y que entonces este declarante ...
— Fray Luis de Leon - A Biographical Fragment • James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
... better for a man to set up his staff in Canada than in the States. "I do not know that we are richer," a Canadian says, "but on the whole we are doing better and are happier." Now, I regard the golden rules against the love of gold, the "aurum irrepertum et sic melius situm," and the rest of it, as very excellent when applied to individuals. Such teaching has not much effect, perhaps, in inducing men to abstain from wealth; but such effect as it may have will be good. Men and women do, I suppose, ...
— Volume 1 • Anthony Trollope |
