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Sine qua non |
Without which, nothing, a necessity |
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Si vos me flere, dolendus est primum ipsi tibi |
HORACE, If you want me to weep, you yourself must 1st feel pain; One cannot describe poverty if he has not been impoverished |
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Sub Rosa |
Under the Rose, In Secret |
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Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re |
Gentle in manner, resolute in deed; saying something important in a mild manner |
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Amat victoria curiam |
Victory loves care; practice |
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Serva me, servabo te |
Petronius, Save me and I will save you |
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non omnes qui habent Cathiram sunt Cithroedi |
Vario, not all who have a lyre are lyre-players |
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Obsequim amicos, veritas adium parit |
Terence, Flattery produces friends, truth ill-will |
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Ille dolet vere qui sine teste dolet |
Martial, He who grieves without witness truly grieves |
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Prima est eloquentiae virtus perspicuitas |
Quintilian, The primary virtue of public speaking is clarity |
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Quantum enim Graeci praeceptes valent, tantum Romani, quod est maius exemptis |
Quintilian, For as strong as the Greeks are in the concepts, so too are the Romans in practice that which is the greater thing |
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Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis milli |
Martial, Fortune gives too much to many people, and enough to none |
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Prospera omnes sibi vindicant, adversa uniineputantur |
Tacitus, Success is claimed by everyone, failure is blamed on one |
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Ubi ira dominatur, ratio nihil valet |
Where anger is dominant, reason prevails not at all |
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Tendebant manus ulteriores ripae amore |
Virgil, They stretch out their hands with a yearning for the further shore, Aeneas at the River Styx |
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Malum est consilium quod mutare non potest |
Publilius Syrus, Bad is the plan which is not able to change |
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Insamus omnes furere credit ceteras |
The insane person believes all the others are crazy |
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Qui stultis videri eruditi stulta eruditis videntur |
Quintilian, They who want to seem scholarly to the foolish seem foolish to the scholarly |
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Est unus quisque faber ipse fortunae suae |
Appius Claudius, Each and every man is the fashioner of his own fortune |
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Horae quidem cedunt et dies et menses et anni, nec praeteritum, tempus cemquam revertitur, nec quid sequatur sciri potest |
Cicero, Indeed the hours do move on and the days and the months and the years, nor does time once past ever return, nor can it be known what is to follow" |
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Certa amittibus dum incerta petimus |
Plautus, We lose the sure while we seek the uncertain, "A bird in hand is worth 2 in bush" |
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Fortuna adversa virum magnae sapientiae non tenet |
Horace, Adverse fortune does not frighten a man of great wisdom; a wise man knows that fortune is fickle |
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Fama volat |
Virgil, Fame flies; fame is fleeting |
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Secrete amicos admonde; lauda polam |
Phaedrus, Admonish your friends in secret, praise them in public |
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Remedium irae est mora |
Seneca, The remedy for anger is delay |
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Homo ductus in se semper divitias habet |
Syrus, A learned man always has riches within himself |
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Ira furor brevis est; animum rege |
Horace, Anger is a brief madness; control your mind |
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Magnae res non fiunt sine periculo |
Terence, Great things do not happen without danger |
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Nemo liber est qui corpori servit |
Publilius Syrus, No man is free who is slave to his body; one must rise above the material |
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Ignosci alteri saepe, numquam tibi |
Publilius Syrus, Forgive others often, yourself not at all; hold yourself to a higher standard |
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Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur |
The man is wise who speaks few words |
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Homines id quod volunt credunt |
Caesar, Men believe what they want |
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Mea mihi conscientia pluris est quam omniam sismo |
Cicero, My conscience is of more value to me than the conversations of all |
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Parva leves capiunt animas |
Ovid, Small things occupy little minds |
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Nulla dies sine linea |
Pliny the Elder, Not a day without a line, describing the ancient Greek painter Apelles |
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Non teneas aurum totum quod splendet ut aurum |
Vulgate, You should not hold as gold all that glitters as gold |
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Non licet omnibus adire Corinthum |
Horace, It is not permitted for everyone to go to Corinth (upper class city) |
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Ne supra crepidam sutor iudicaret |
Pliny the Elder, A cobbler should not be judging above the ankle |
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Mortui non mordent |
The dead do not bite |
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Maior e conguinquo reverentia |
Greater reverence from afar; things look better after time; no man is a hero to his valet |
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forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit |
Vergil, Perhaps at some time it will be pleasing to recall even these times, Aeneas at Carthage |
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Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas |
Vergil, Fortunate is he who is able to learn the causes of things; ie - he is not lead by superstition |
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Ex nihilo nihil fit |
Lucretius, Nothing comes from Nothing |
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Ne gustibus non est disputandum |
Concerning Taste there must be no dispute |
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Caelum, non animum, mutant qui trans mare currunt |
Horace, They are changing the sky, not the mind, those who cross the sea; on does not become happy by changing locations |
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ars est celore artem |
Ovid, The art is to conceal the art |
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Altissima quoque flumino minimo sono labi |
The deepest rivers flow with the least sound; wise people are quieter, older |
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Qui tacet constituti |
He who is silent consents |
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