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Quem di diligunt, adulescens moritur ? "Whom the gods love dies young" (Plautus, Bacchides, IV, 7, 18). In the comic play, a sarcastic servant says this to his aging master. The rest of the sentence reads: dum valet, sentit, sapit, "while he is full of health, perception and judgement."Comment
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Nil sine magno labore vita dedit mortalibus ? "life does not give mortals anything but hard labor" (Horace)Comment
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Nulla est medicina sine lingua Latina. ? "No medicine without Latin."Comment
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Fide, sed qui, vide. ? "Trust but take care whom."Comment
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Fortes fortuna iuvat ? "Fortune favors the strong." (cf. Audaces fortuna iuvat.) (Terence)Comment
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Reddite ergo quae sunt Caesaris, Caesari ? "Then give Caesar what's Caesar's" (Vulgate, Matthew 22:21 as well as Luke 20:25)Comment
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Acta est fabula ? "What happened is a fable," or "The fable is ended" (Augustus' last words)Comment
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Quot capita, tot sententiae. ? "As many opinions as people."Comment
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Scire aliquid laus est, pudor est nihil discere velle. ? "It is commendable to know some things, it is disgraceful to refuse to learn." (Seneca)Comment
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Quem dii odere, paedagogum fecere (also Quem dii oderunt, paedagogum fecerunt) ? "Whom the gods hated, they made them pedagogues"Comment
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Amor vincit omnia ? "Love conquers all." (See Omnia vincit amor).Comment
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Iustitia omni auro carior. ? "Justice is more precious than all gold."Comment
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Sunt facta verbis difficiliora ? "Works are harder than words." i.e. "Easier said than done."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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Igne natura renovatur integra (INRI) ? "Through fire nature is reborn whole"; an alchemical aphorism.Comment
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Vasa vana plurimum sonant ? "Empty pots make the most noise"Comment
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Aquiris quodcumque rapis ? "You acquire what you reap (or take by force)"Comment
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Hypotheses non fingo. ? "I feign no hypotheses" (I do not assert that any hypotheses are true). Newton, PrincipiaComment
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Nil admirari ? "To not admire anything" you shouldn't let yourself be taken away by anything (Horace)Comment
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Aquila non capit muscas ? "An eagle doesn't hunt flies"Comment
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Nunc est bibendum ? "Now it's time to drink" (Horace, Odes I, 37, 1)Comment
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Mens sana in corpore sano ? "Healthy mind in healthy body." (Usually understood as "a healthy mind requires a healthy body", but actually Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano, "One prays that there is a healthy mind in (that) healthy body." Juvenal, Satires 10, 356). See also ASICS.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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Omnium artium medicina nobilissima est. ? "Medicine is the noblest of all arts."Comment
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Per scientiam ad salutem aegroti. ? "To heal the sick through knowledge."Comment
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Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus ? "Outside the Church [there is] No Salvation" (a disputed thesis of Roman Catholic theology).Comment
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Festina lente ! ? "Make haste slowly" (i.e. proceed quickly but with caution, a motto of Augustus Caesar).Comment
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Si vis amaria, ama ? "If you want to be loved, love" (Seneca)Comment
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Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses. ? "If you had kept your silence, you would have stayed a philosopher."Comment
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Nunc aut numquam ? "Now or never"Comment
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Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor ? "I see the better and acknowledge it, but I follow the worse (Ovid)Comment



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