"Cum Carum Moneas"

     My daily reading from Brevissima today was #170, given the title "Cum Carum Moneas" ("When You Advise Someone Dear To You") by the editor (originally from The Distichs of Cato 1.9, a 4th century work). I liked this one. The Latin runs thus:

Cum moneas aliquem nec se velit ille moneri,

Si tibi sit carus, noli desistere coeptis.

Roughly rendered in English:

When you advise [or "admonish"] someone and he does not wish to be advised ["admonished"],

If he is dear to you, do not hold back from what you have begun.