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And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty.
[Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.]
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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.
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RODERIGO What, ho, Brabantio! Signior Brabantio, ho!
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You, Roman, remember to rule peoples with your power. -Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento
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Cruor pectoris mei, tutela tua est!
Blood of my heart, protection is thine!
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Illegitimis nil carborundum.
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Pax amor et lepos in iocando. Latin for Peace, love and sense of fun.
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Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.
(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)
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Everything's better when you say it in Latin.
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Alea iacta est. The die has been cast.
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It's leviOsa, not levioSA!
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Opto Civitas." "I choose civility. That's the new me,
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Lente, lente currite, noctis equi. Translation: Run slowly, slowly, horses of the night.
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Ridendo dicere severum. (tr. Through what is laughable say what is somber.)
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Joseph Robertson wrote in an essay on punctuation in 1785, "The art of punctuation is of infinite consequence in writing; as it contributes to the perspicuity, and consequently to the beauty, of every composition.
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Now drown care in wine.
[Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.]
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Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (Thus passes the glory of the world).
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It is my destiny to know people who abuse punctuation.
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Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)
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It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.'
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Vitanda est improba siren desidia. (One must avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.)
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Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
[Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum
Deseruit pede poena claudo.]
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Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.
(Whatever advice you give, be brief.)
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A just fortune awaits the deserving.
[Lat., Fors aequa merentes
Respicit.]
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Indignation leads to the making of poetry.
[Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]
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The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant I try and I achieve.
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Difficile est satiram non scribere
[It is hard not to write a satire]
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Cucullus non facit monachum; that's as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.
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Good-bye to the lies of the poets.
[Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]
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I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
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Nico: "Prodigium effodio" -- what does that mean again?
Vision: Excavating monster. It's Latin.
Nico: Damn, how much time did you spend in the library?
Vision: I am a library.
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Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads.
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Give not reins to your inflamed passions; take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.
[Lat., Ne frena animo permitte calenti;
Da spatium, tenuemque moram; male cuncta ministrat
Impetus.]
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Nothing is stronger than Custom
(Fac tibi consuescat: nil adsuetudine maius)
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Corruptio optimi pessima." The corruption of the best things are the worst things.
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The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.
[Lat., Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.]
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Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends.
[Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.]
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Procrastinatio n is still the thief of time.
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There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est
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Ex hoc momento pendet aeternites.
(Eternity hangs from this moment.)
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They make their fortune who are stout and wise,
Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies.
[Lat., Che sovente addivien che'l saggio e'l forte.
Fabro a se stesso e di beata sorte.]
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Speramus meliora; resurgret cineribus. We hope for better things; it will rise from the ashes,
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Whenever I can, in my study, on the subway, in bed before going to sleep, I immerse myself in Italian. I enter another land, unexplored, murky. A
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How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
[Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]
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the Roman satirical daily, Il Don Pirlone ('Mr Dickhead',
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Illegitimi non carborundum --don't let the bastards grind you down
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You expect death to bring some new form of punctuation, but there it is: one small gasp. Period.
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Arma virumque cano ... "
*Literally: "I sing of arms and man".
I sing the praises of a man's stuggles
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Hic scientia finit: Knowledge Stops Here.
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He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along.
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Don Basilio was a severe, forbidden-looking man who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or of someone with a vitamin deficiency.
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The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants.
[Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
A dis plura feret.]
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I need an irony punctuation mark for the clueless.
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Nadie me influye, todos contribuyen
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The shame of fools conceals their open wounds.
[Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]
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Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing.
[Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]
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The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture surveys the forms and uses of epigraphic writing from classical antiquity to the twentieth century.
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This chapter is dedicated to those other delights of punctuation--exquisite little squiggles, those most delightful dots and dashes, and other tragically under-appreciated tiny tidbits!

Nah. I'm just yankin' your chain.
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Be happy, Caro, because that's what you deserve.
I love you, I have always loved you, and where I go after this world, I will always love you.
Sempre e per sempre.
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He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another's experience.
[Lat., Feliciter sapit qui alieno periculo sapit.]
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Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could be victorious than the absolutely correct one.
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Gervasio Lonquimay
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...curiosity had the same impact on him as caffeine... (Commissario Soneri)
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SCARAMOUCHE Rafael
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Odi et amo; quare fortasse requiris, nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
(my translation: I hate and I love, you ask why I do this, I do not know, but I feel and I am tormented)
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Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.
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Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble.
[Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes),
Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!]
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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.]
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Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.
(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)
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Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini.
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Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune.
[Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]
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We are charmed by neatness: Let not your hair be out of order.
[Lat., Munditiis capimur: non sine lege capilli.]
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To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets, does not originate in an aesthetic clique. It expresses the violent desire that stirs in the veins of every creative artist today.
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Fidarsi e bene, non fidarsi e meglio. [To trust is good, not to trust is better.]
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Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina
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Festina lente. You know what that means?"
Hurry slowly."
Bene." He smiled.
-A Good & Happy Child
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The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent.
[Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]
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One Day, I Will Be Successful . . .
Un Dia Tendre Exito . . .
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Che sanza speme vivemo in disio.
That without hope we live in desire.
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I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital.
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I can't help but think that the way we punctuate now is the right way - that we are living in a punctuation renaissance.
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Tota est scientia
Knowledge is all
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Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or someone with a vitamin deficiency.
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Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member.
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There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it.
[It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]
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Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God.
[Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit
Non sit ut inferius suppositumque deo.]
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Potius sero quam nunquam.
Better late than never.
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Et tu, Caesar? Then fall, Caesar.
Et tu, Estha? Then fall, Estha.
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Asino tu nascesti, ad asino morrai. [An ass you were born; an ass you will die.]
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I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English - no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.
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Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.
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Date un regalo giornaliero: "capire ognuno."
Give a daily gift: "understand one another.
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Nemo est qui tibi sapientius suadere possit te ipso: numquam labere, si te audies.
(Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you'll never go wrong.)
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Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.
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The sick mind can not bear anything harsh.
[Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.]
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The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.
[It., Lo tuo ver dir m'incuora
Buona umilta e gran tumor m'appiani.]
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I'm no more than a comma in life. I who am a colon. Thou, thou art my exclamation.
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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.
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Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn.
[Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit; nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.]
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My name is Skippito Friskito. (clap-clap)
I fear not a single bandito. (clap-clap)
My manners are mellow,
I'm sweet like the Jell-o,
I get the job done, yes indeed-o. (clap-clap)