![]() Thomas Fuller, Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)."'Tis better for thee to be wise and not seem so, than to seem wise and not be so: Yet Men, for the most Part, desire and endeavor the contrary.".English equivalent: Better fed than taught.English equivalent: Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs (Abbreviated ed.). The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs. "Somebody who has a very wide range of abilities or skills usually does not excel at any of them.".English equivalent: Jack of all trades, master of none Jack of all trades begs bread on Sundays.Translation: Someone in all, is nothing in one.Aliquis in omnibus est nullus in singulis.English equivalent: Even Homer sometimes nods.Sometimes attributed to Cardinal Richelieu.Axel Oxenstierna (1583 – 1654), 1648 letter to son, who was involved in negotiating the Peace of Westphalia.Translation: Don't you know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?.An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur? (alternatively: regatur orbis).(see also quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi) Translation: If others are allowed to, that does not mean you are.Translation: "If there is something you do (well), carry on", "If you do something, do it well" see also "Age quod agis". ![]()
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