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In wondrous ways do the gods make sport with men.
[Lat., Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus.]
Safety lies in the middle course.
[Lat., Medio tutissimus ibis.]
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
[Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris
Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]
There is no need of words; believe facts.
[Lat., Non opus est verbis, credite rebus.]
Carpe librum, meant "Seize the book.
Busy idleness urges us on.
[Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]
In hoc signo vinces
Illegitimis nil carborundum.
Moderation in all things
Semper fuckin' fi
Difficile est satiram non scribere
[It is hard not to write a satire]
Everything unknown is magnified.
[Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
[Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]
Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received.
[Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo
Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. Lucius Accius, Telephus
ArchGovernor's ears," Podginus orders. Bridge forces
Cucullus non facit monachum; that's as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.
Det ille veniam facile, cui venia est opus - the one who needs pardon should readily grant it
Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)
In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits.
[Lat., Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda est
Externis virtus incomitata bonis.]
Art for art's sake.
[Lat., Ars gratia artis.]
Moderation: a median with no means, praised by those with no misfortunes, practiced by those with no merits.
I have been wrong and Simon Magus has been right.
A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)
Posse ad ease --from possibility to actuality
The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless.
[Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra; malique
In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]
Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human reason. They are often obliged to infer one thing from another, and this, whether that other be a fact direct or circumstantial.
When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened.
[Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
Alea iacta est. The die has been cast.
Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].
The dynamics of the Roman Christian creed is an oscillating maneuver between covert and overt Polytheisms; between Modalism and Partialism.
It shall be a duty and a pleasing sport to wander with Momus beneath the tropic stars where Melpomene once stalked austere.
A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things.
[Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]
Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention.
[Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]
Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet.
Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.
And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
[Lat., Itidemque ut saepe jam in multis locis,
Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni.]
A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. Quid obscurum, quid divinum. Each historian traces, to some extent, the particular feature which pleases him amid this pell-mell.
Cogito, ergo sum" - I think, therefore I am.
Ex hoc momento pendet aeternites.
(Eternity hangs from this moment.)
Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
Moderation is the basis of justice.
trivium (grammar, rhetoric, and logic)
Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Lucky is he who has been able to understand the causes of things Virgil, Georgics, Book 2
Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur(nothing moves without having been moved).
Priusquam autem ad creationem, hoc est ad finem omnis disputationis, veniamus: tentanda omnia existimo.
However, before we come to [special] creation, which puts an end to all discussion: I think we should try everything else.
Unlike the first two Critiques, which ground the doctrinal metaphysical systems of natural science and morals, the Critique of Judgment has no specific metaphysical application. It deals with the harmony of the cognitive faculties and examines the conditions for the systematization of all knowledge.
Fallaces sunt rerum speciaes. The appearances of things are deceptive.
Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!"
"Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton.
We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow.
[Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.]
Ratio et prudentia curas,
Non locus effusi late maris arbiter, aufert.
[it is reason and wisdom which take away cares, not places affording wide views over the sea.]
Je pense, donc je suis; English: I think, therefore I am)
Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part.
Judgments. A mistake, therefore, of right may become a species
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace.
[Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]
One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
[Lat., Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem,
Non ponebat enim rumores ante salutem.]
When men exercise their reason coolly and freely, on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions, on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions if they are so to be called, will be the same.
Veritas odium parit. (Truth breeds hatred)
Navigare necesse est. Vivere non est necesse.' I've
Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
[Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]
Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.
First, I must distinguish between that which always is and never becomes and which is apprehended by reason and reflection, and that which always becomes and never is and is conceived by opinion with the help of sense.
Hocus Pocus let's try to focus
But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
[Lat., Sed profecto Fortuna in omni re dominatur; ea res cunctas ex lubidine magis, quam ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque.]
The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.
The abject pleasure of an abject mind
And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind.
[Lat., Vindicta
Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]
Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace.
[Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]
Sed lex, dura lex
The profession of the law of which he [a judge] is a part is charged with the articulation and final incidence of the successive efforts towards justice; it must feel the circulation of the communal blood or it will wither and drop off, a useless member.
Salus populi suprema lex esto. Let the good (or safety) of the people be the supreme (or highest) law.
Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings.
[Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus
Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.]
You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
[Lat., Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad judicem.]
Tempore difficiles veniunt ad aratra juvenci;
Tempore lenta pati frena docentur equi.
In time the unmanageable young oxen come to the plough; in time the horses are taught to endure the restraining bit.
Translated 'Non omnia possumus omnus' as 'No possums allowed on the omnibus.
Si Vis Pacem, Para Iustitiam: In order to have peace, you must first have justice.
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa - my fault, my fault, my most grievous fault - as she pounded her fist to her chest three times as if pounding shut a door to keep her guilt from escaping.
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.
[Lat., Ergo hoc proprium est animi bene constituti, et laetari bonis rebus, et dolere contrariis.]
Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.
[Fr., La force est la reine du monde, et non pas l'opinion; mais l'opinion est celle qui use de la force.]
Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Caesar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.
Pestis eram vivus ... moriens tua mors ero - Living, I was your plague ... dying, I shall be your death.
Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character ...
Nothing is stronger than Custom
(Fac tibi consuescat: nil adsuetudine maius)
There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est
In times of war, the law falls silent.
Silent enim leges inter arma
Per ardua ad astra. Through adversity to the stars.
Trust not to outward show.
[Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]
Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!
Thou art moist and soft clay; thou must instantly be shaped by the glowing wheel.
[Lat., Udum et molle lutum es: nunc, nunc properandus et acri
Fingendus sine fine rota.]
You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.
Transit umbra, lux permanet
A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
[Lat., Mulieri nimio male facere melius est onus, quam bene.]
Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it.
[Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.]
Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!