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In hoc signo vinces ? "By this sign you will conquer" (Constantine's vision before the Battle of Milvian Bridge).Comment
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Ridendo dicere verum ? (it is hard) "To tell the truth and be happy"Comment
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Maxima debetur puero reverentia ? "One owes the greatest possible care for the child" (Juvenal)Comment
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Quod nocet, saepe docet ? "That which harms, often brings a benefit"Comment
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Si vis pacem, para bellum. ? "If you want peace, prepare for war." (Vegetius, Epitoma rei militaris) origin of the name parabellum for some ammunition and firearms, e.g. Luger parabellumComment
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Ad astra per aspera ? "To the stars through difficulties," motto of Kansas. (More frequently as per aspera ad astra.)Comment
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Donec eris felix multos numerabis amicos. ? "As long as you're happy, you'll have many friends." (Ovid, Tristia I,9,5)Comment
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Audiatur et altera pars ? "Hear both sides."Comment
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Habent sua fata libelli. ? "Books have their fate." (Terentianus Maurus)Comment
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Cogito ergo sum ? "I think, therefore I am." Argument used by René Descartes as proof of his own existence.Comment
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A mari usque ad mare ? "From sea to sea," motto of Canada.Comment
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Nil sine numini. ? "Nothing without Providence."Comment
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Piscem natare doces ? "[You] teach a fish to swim."Comment
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Nomen est omen. ? "A name is an omen."Comment
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Si uno adhuc proelio Romanos vincemus, funditus peribimus! ? "Another victory like that, and I'm done for!" (Plutarch, Pyrrhus 21, 14) Attributed to King Pyrrhus of Epirus after a victory with heavy casualties. See Pyrrhic victoryComment
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Deus ex machina! ? "God from [the] machine!" The term was made by Greek tragic playwrights: when a plot twist occured that couldn't be solved by the mortal characters, an actor (playing the role of God) would be brought in on a stage crane (the "machine") to fix everything. Today, it's used for a person, who, with his sudden appearance, solves a twisted situation.Comment
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Praesente medico nihil nocet. ? "In the presence of a doctor nothing can harm."Comment
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Manus manum lavat ? "One hand washes the other."Comment
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Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto. ? "I am human, so nothing that is human is foreign to me." (Terence)Comment
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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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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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Una salus victis, nullam sperare salutem ?"The only [hope of ]safety for the defeated is to relinquish all hope of safety." (Virgil, Aeneid, II, 354)Comment
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Nil satis nisi optimum ? "Nothing but the best is good enough."Comment
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Bene diagnoscitur, bene curatur. ? "Something that is well diagnosed can be cured well."Comment
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Quod non est in actis, non est in mundo ? "What is not in the documents does not exist"Comment
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Interdum dormitat bonus Homerus ? "Sometimes even the good Homer slumbers" (i.e. even the best of us makes mistakes); originally quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus, Horace, Ars PoeticaComment
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Medicus curat, natura sanat ? "The doctor cares [for his patient], nature heals [him]." or "Doctor cures, nature saves"Comment
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Natura abhorret vacuum. ? "Nature abhors a vacuum."Comment
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Dominus Illuminatio Mea ? "The Lord is my light," motto of Oxford University.Comment
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Bis repetita non placent ? "Repetitions are not well received." (Horace, Ars Poetica 365)Comment
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Nunc aut numquam ? "Now or never"Comment
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De gustibus non est disputandum. ? "Matters of taste ought not to be disputed."Comment
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Una hirundo non facit ver ? "One swallow doesn't make spring"Comment
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Bona diagnosis, bona curatio. ? "Good diagnosis, good cure."Comment
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Facilis descensus Averno ? "The descent to hell is easy."Comment



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