as fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation, when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated and vanishes (Cicero) | EUdict

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as fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation, when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated and vanishes (Cicero)	ut ignis aquam conjectus, continuo restinguitur et refrigeratur, sic refervens falsum crimen in purissimam et castissimam vitam collatum, statim concidit et extinguitur
(documents) to falsify (character) to corrupt	corrumpo
a brief time if you count the years; an age if you count the changes it brought forth (Pliny the Younger)	si computes annos, exiguum tempus; si vices rerum, ævum putes
a claw in the wound (i.e., a knife in the wound) (Cicero)	unguis in ulcere
a community is as those who rule it (Cicero)	quales sunt summi civitatis viri talis est civitas
a competent person in my opinion, as he was accustomed often to hear him, and published his sentiments after the subject of them ceased to exist; there is no reason therefore to suppose that his partiality has misled him from the truth (Cicero)	idoneus quidem mea sententia, præsertim quum et ipse eum audiverit, et scribat de mortuo; ex quo nulla suspicio est amicitiæ causa eum esse mentitum
a dishonorable flight from death is worse than any death (Cicero)	turpis autem fuga mortis omni est morte pejor
a feeble dart (or spear) thrown to no effect (i.e., a weak and ineffectual argument) (Virgil)	telum imbelle sine ictu
a fire is difficult to ward off when the neighboring house is in flames (Ovid)	proximus a tectis ignis defenditur ægre
a fire, if neglected, always gathers in strength (Horace)	neglecta solent incendia sumere vires
a foolish fire (i.e., specious words; a will-o’-the-wisp)	ignis fatuus (pl. ignes fatui)
a friend is, as it were, a second self (Cicero)	amicus est tanquam alter idem
a good orator is pointed and impassioned (Cicero)	acer et vehemens bonus orator
a great fire, unless you feed it, spends its rage in vain (Virgil)	magnus sine viribus ignis incassum furit
a greater inheritance comes to each of us from our rights and laws than from our parents (Cicero)	major hæreditas venit unicuique nostrum a jure et legibus, quam a parentibus

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