Chapter LEARNING to LEPROSY of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Publius Scipio Africanus.—A saying written of him by Cato the censor, and quoted by Cicero at the commencement of the third book of his Offices. The same idea is to be found in Seneca, Epi. VI. and Rogers on Human Life, Line 65 from the end, without acknowledgment.

LENDING.—If you lend a person any money, it becomes lost for any purpose as one’s own. When you ask for it back again, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press still further—either you must part with that which you have intrusted, or else you must lose that friend.

1 Riley’s Plautus.—The Trinummus, Act IV. Scene 4.

For loan oft loses both itself and friend.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 3.

LEPROSY.—Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.

2 Kings.—Chap. V. Verse 3.

LEPROSY.—He that of greatest works is finisher
Oft does them by the weakest minister;
So Holy Writ in babes hath judgment shown,
When judges have been babes.

Shakespeare.—All’s Well that Ends Well, Act II. Scene 1. (Helena to the King.)