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Mollia non desunt vacuae solatia vitae,  Sive libros poscant otia, sive lyram.

From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel

He says: “Hominis est enim affici dolore, sentire, resistere tamen, et solatia admittere, non solatiis non egere.”388.This characteristic of Stoicism is well noticed in Grant's Aristotle, vol. i. p.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

Ille gemens, si vera mihi solatia præbes, Hospes apud superos sis meus oro, refert.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel

Mollia non desunt vacuae solatia vitae Sive libros poscant otia, sive lyram.

From Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by Boswell, James

You ought to have brought the matter before us yourselves: at least, now, support him with the necessary "solatia."

From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Hodgkin, Thomas