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There is no need of words; believe facts.
[Lat., Non opus est verbis, credite rebus.]
Trust not to outward show.
[Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]
Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturae judicia confirmat.
Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.
By wine eating cares are put to flight.
[Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]
In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.
Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
[Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]
Rome is one enormous mausoleum. There, the Past lies visibly stretched upon his bier. There is no today or tomorrow in Rome; it is perpetual yesterday.
In laboring to be concise, I become obscure.
[Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]
You, Roman, remember to rule peoples with your power. -Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento
A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact.
I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as
agree best with practice.
Prestidigitation? You've got to be joking. No one says that.
In hoc signo vinces
Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.
Timendi causa est nescire -
Ignorance is the cause of fear.
Carpe Diam forever after.
the Precautionary Principle, a favorite tool of environmentalists to bypass the need for facts as the basis of decision-making.
Esse quam videri - "To be, rather than to seem (to be)
In our young days, when Modigliani and I first came to Paris, in 1906, nobody was very clear about ideas. But unconsciously, we knew quite a lot of things, of which we became aware later on.
If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.
Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
[Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum
Deseruit pede poena claudo.]
Cogito, ergo sum" - I think, therefore I am.
Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober.
[Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]
The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse.
[Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est:
Nam timor eventus deterioris abest.]
Quid quo pro - you cant get something from nothing .
A just fortune awaits the deserving.
[Lat., Fors aequa merentes
Respicit.]
I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home.
[Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]
For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.
Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction can be profitable to none but such as live by it.
Time was also (as an infant) I knew no Latin; but this I learned without fear or suffering, by mere observation, amid the caresses of my nursery and jests of friends, smiling and sportively encouraging me.
The ungovernable passion for wealth.
[Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]
Audentes fortuna iuvat. Fortune favors the bold.
Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.
Declare the past,
diagnose the present,
foretell the future.
Everything unknown is magnified.
[Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
2.223 In order to discover whether the picture is true or false we must compare it with reality. 2.224 It cannot be discovered from the picture alone whether it is true or false. 2.225 There is no picture which is a priori true.
I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
[Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]
One man's modus ponens is another man's reductio, as epistemologists are forever pointing out (In Critical Condition, p. 70)
Nunc fluens facit tempus,
nunc stans facit aeternitatum.
(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)
Conceptio culpa Nasci pena Labor vita Necesse mori 'Conception is sin, birth is pain, life is toil, death is inevitable.
Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune.
[Lat., Res secundae valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.]
Utterance is the evidence of foregone study.
Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).
Ser mal profesor sale barato
Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini.
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.]
Exitus Acta Probat---the outcome justifies the deed.
Carpe librum, meant "Seize the book.
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.]
Irene gasped. "Have you taken leave of your senses, Stuart?" she hissed. "Have you?"
Stuart closed his eyes.
"No," he said. "Au contraire." It was strong language for the Edinburgh New Town, but he had to say it.
"Don't au contraire me," said Irene.
But it was too late. He had.
Machiavelli is not an evil genius, nor a demon, nor a miserable and cowardly writer; he is nothing but the fact. And he is not only the Italian fact; he is the European fact, the fact of the sixteenth century. He seems hideous, and so he is, in the presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth.
Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written and original book.
If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.
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.]
History is the insight to foresight
Si Vis Pacem, Para Iustitiam: In order to have peace, you must first have justice.
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.
This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view.
Cucullus non facit monachum; that's as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.
It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate.
[Lat., Saepe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.]
Non sum qualis eram. I am not what I once was.
So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')
Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo.
I was not, I was, I am not, I don't care.
Et moriendo docebo - I will teach you how to die.
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.]
The ambition of Caesar and of Napoleon pales before that which could not rest until it had seized the minds of men and controlled even their unborn thoughts,
I'm actin' pro se. Do you even know what that means?" "Yeah, it's Latin for 'dumbass.
Precedents are treated by powerful minds as fetters with which to bind down the weak, as reasons with which to mistify the moderately informed, and as reeds which they themselves fearlessly break through whenever new combinations and difficult emergencies demand their highest efforts.
The cause is hidden, but the result is known.
[Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]
Semper fuckin' fi
In the months before coming to Italy, I was looking for another direction for my writing. I wanted a new approach. I didn't know that the language I had studied slowly for many years in America would, finally, give me the direction.
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.
Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago [Without learning, life is but the image of death]
Mortui vivis docent - the dead teach the living.
Modo, et modo, non habebent modum.
By-and-by has no end.
No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.
Vitanda est improba siren desidia. (One must avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.)
Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time.
Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men.
[Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae,
Noctis habent.]
Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing.
[Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]
Principle I:;: Legal rights are presumptive rights.
Giving requires good sense.
[Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]
The forming of general maxims from particular observation is a very nice operation; and nothing is more usual, from haste or a narrowness of mind, which sees not on all sides, than to commit mistakes in this particular.
In the course of social evolution, usage precedes law; and that when usage has been well established it becomes law by receiving authoritative endorsement and defined form.
Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself.
[Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]
You better introduce yourself before you start talking Latin.
Tota est scientia
Knowledge is all
The first rough draft of history.
'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about it.'
Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.
Salus populi suprema est lex [the good of the people is the chief law].
Noli me tangere; for Caesar's I am.
What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire.
[Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.]
I came, I saw, she conquered. The original Latin seems to have been garbled.
There is no precognition - there is only cognition.
The present work is, then, the masterpiece of one particular literary genre that flourished in the fourth century BC in Greece, that of the rhetorical manual, and it is a remarkable fact that it should have fallen to Aristotle to write it. It
I write under not only the presumption that everything I write is deeply conditioned by everything I've already written, but that everything I write changes, retroactively, all those things I've already written.
Illegitimis nil carborundum.
From no place can you exclude the fates.
[Lat., Nullo fata loco possis excludere.]
The event, in its emergence, poses its own premises, determining that they were the conditions for its realization. This transition is always the result of a salto mortale, which is a creative act in the sense that it gives the preceding links in the chain of events their meaning.