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Quod medicina aliis, aliis est acre venenum. ? "One person's medicine is another's foul poison."Comment
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Pro aris et focis ? "For altar and hearth" i.e. for our homes (Cicero)Comment
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Ex oriente lux ? "From the East [comes] the light [i.e. culture]"Comment
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Bene diagnoscitur, bene curatur. ? "Something that is well diagnosed can be cured well."Comment
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Age quod agis - "Do what you do", in the sense of "Do well what you do" or "Be serious in what you do"Comment
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Gutta cavat lapidem non bis, sed saepe cadendo; sic homo fit sapiens bis non, sed saepe legendo. ? "A drop drills a rock by falling not twice, but many times; so too is a human made smart by reading not two, but many books" (Giordano Bruno).Comment
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Rustica progenies semper villana fuit. ? "A rustic (as in, provincial, peasant-like) ancestry will always remain rustic."Comment
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Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit ? "Perhaps even this will one day be pleasant to look back on" from Virgil's Aeneid, possibly a translation from Aesop.Comment
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Hic Rhodus, hic salta. ? "It's Rhodos, jump here." AesopComment
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Amor vincit omnia ? "Love conquers all." (See Omnia vincit amor).Comment
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Dominus Illuminatio Mea ? "The Lord is my light," motto of Oxford University.Comment
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Sutor, ne ultra crepidam! ? "Cobbler, no further than the sandal!" I.e. don't offer your opinion on things that are outside your competence. It is said that Greek painter Apelles once asked the advice of a cobbler on how to render the sandals of a soldier he was painting. When the cobbler started offering advice on other parts of the painting, Apelles rebuked him with this phrase (but in Greek).Comment
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Nulla res tam necessaria est quam medicina. ? "Nothing is so necessary as medicine."Comment
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Quod nocet, saepe docet ? "That which harms, often brings a benefit"Comment
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Una hirundo non facit ver ? "One swallow doesn't make spring"Comment
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Nomen est omen. ? "A name is an omen."Comment
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Iura novat curia. ? "The law is known to the court." Legal principle (e.g. in Germany) that says lawyers are not to argue the law because that is the office of the court.Comment
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Varitatio delectat ? "Change pleases."Comment
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Carpe noctum ? "Seize the night."Comment
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Ulula cum lupis, cum quibus esse cupis. ? "Who keeps company with wolves, will learn to howl."Comment
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Omnia vincit amor ? "Love conquers all" More fully, Omnia vincit amor, nos et cedamus amori: "Love conquers all, let us too yield to love" (Virgil, Eclogues 10:69).Comment
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Homo homini lupus est. ? "Man is a wolf to man." HobbesComment
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Cuius regio, eius religio ? "He who rules, his religion": the privilege of a ruler to choose the religion of his subjects, established at the Peace of Augsburg in 1555.Comment
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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. "It is sweet and honorable to die for the fatherland." By Horace, Odes III, 2, 13, frequently quoted, notably in the poem Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen.Comment
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Vita brevis, ars longa ? see Ars longa, vita brevisComment
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Concordia civium murus urbium. ? "Harmony of citizens is the wall of cities."Comment
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Aegroto dum anima est, spes est ? "As long as a sick person is conscious (or, has a good character, or reacts), there is still hope."Comment
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Homines quod volunt credunt. ? "Men believe what they want to." (Julius Caesar)Comment
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Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum. ? "It is not every man's lot to go to Corinth" Corinth was at this time known for its many and lavish brothelsComment



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