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Mortui vivis docent - the dead teach the living.
Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa.
To the latecomers are left the bones.
Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!
Si vas a volverte loco, vuelve te solo
Oh, lovely. Magical zombies have stolen my valknut.
The views of the multitude are neither bad nor good.
[Lat., Neque mala, vel bona, quae vulgus putet.]
Alis volat propiss. (She flies with her own wings.)
Our Darling Eva We Love You
[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.
Fortune and love favour the brave.
[Lat., Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant.]
The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
It is noble to grant life to the vanquished.
[Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]
The wise and decent priest Jos de Vries
makes me smile by heart and soul.
Petra Hermans
November 4, 2016
V?"
"What?"
"I will die rather than hurt you."
~Vutch moments~
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory.
[Lat., Horae
Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.
The result justifies the deed
(Exitus acta probat)
Vive ut vivast - Live so that you may live.
Vade Mecum
I want the scissors to be sharp
and the table perfectly level
when you cut me out of my life
and paste me in that book you always carry.
Reaching and reached. Cassia
In a profound, symbolic gesture, I am giving you this bar of Vosges I got when we went to Edgartown. You can eat it, or just sit next to it and feel superior.
The battle of Varus is an enigma, not in a military but in a political point of view - not in its course, but in its consequences.
Vertue now is in herbs and stones and words onely.
Opto Civitas." "I choose civility. That's the new me,
Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her.
[Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]
Yours most sincerely,
Peter Van Houten
c/o Lidewij Vliegnthart
"WHAT?!" I shouted aloud. "WHAT IS THIS LIFE?
My warhorse has new shoes" - Thomas Van Pelt
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
[Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara aeternaque habetur.]
Vashon is an island, accessible by ferry from Seattle, mainly populated by NIMBY-ish hippies, NIMBY-ish yuppies, boutique farmers, and wizards riding recumbent bicycles. A full quarter of the children in Vashon schools are unvaccinated.
The God's been walking through our halls again: Brothers have been having visions. What's Vartra been saying to you?
I didn't know a van could go up on two wheels like that, for so long. -Nudge
Andy and Terry went into the kitchen to serve out the Neapolitan (which we called van-choc-straw . . . funny how it all
VI VERI VENIVERSUM VIVUS VICI.
By the Power of Truth, I, while living, have Conquered the Universe.
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.]
Lauricia or Aurelia?
Valar Dohaeris. All men must serve.
I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this, O, that's for lover's thoughts.
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.]
No one painted a more accurate picture of military depredation than Vergil. Inspired though he was by the Latin spirit and by his pride in Rome, he nevertheless glorified Rome's true mission as one of providing the world with the rules of peace and justice.
I briefly stole a look from Vanni, who's dark eyes seem to speak volumes in a language I was not familiar. I did t speak Cheating Dirt Bag, nor did I with to learn.
Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
[Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum
Deseruit pede poena claudo.]
Dear God, she couldn't give this man sex. She could barely give it to Van, and he currently smelled so good she just wanted to shove her face under his t-shirt and eat whatever she found there.
Efferfreshpainted livy, in beautific repose, upon the silence of the dead, from pharoph the nextfirst down to ramescheckles the last bust thing. The Vico road goes round and round to meet where terms begin.
Velva wasn't merely a rose among the thorns, the lily of the valleys, she was Empress amongst the stars and planet.
Mens videt astra.
(The soul sees the stars.)
Now drown care in wine.
[Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.]
Insofar as Pancasila is concerned, I am only its formulator: a formulator of those feelings which have been present silently in the heart of the Indonesian people.
A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)
Venissa is a perfect destination for day-trippers from Venice proper who are searching for great food and a little adventure; it's a 30-minute jaunt by vaporetto from St. Mark's, quicker by water taxi.
Arma virumque cano ... "
*Literally: "I sing of arms and man".
I sing the praises of a man's stuggles
He had come abroad to enjoy the Flemish painters and all others; but what fair-tressed saint of Van Eyck or Memling was so interesting a figure as Madame de Mauves?
But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow.
[Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.]
Verily there is nothing in all Europe so beautiful as Valldemosa.
Van Der Vaart's movement is always on the move
Me and Mike, ve vork in mine,
Holy shit, ve have good time.
Vunce a veek ve get our pay,
Holy shit, no vork next day.
'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about it.'
Veni, vidi, flevi.
I came. I saw. I cried.
It's leviOsa, not levioSA!
In hoc signo vinces
The viol, the violet, and the vine.
Resignedly beneath the sky
Today we learned the letter "v"! It's in all kinds of words! Like "very" and "value" and "waves"!" "That's great!" Mavis giggled. She hoped it would be a few more years before he stopped calling her "Mace.
Hortense. We broke
Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.
The changeful change of circumstances.
[Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
Because of you Vadim, You are my home.
Valor was in Nikodemos, unquestionable, and commitment like trees to stand or night to fall.
By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow. The house was a haven amid the madness of the city: lily of the valley grew near our front gate, Virginia creeper decked the green picket fence.
In the V-shaped opening of her crape bodice Mlle. Vinteuil felt the sting of her friend's sudden kiss; ...
petraries and mangonels. Then, at vesper time,
She understands suddenly that the stuff that fills her up is not the love or attention she might get from other people; it is the love she herself has for other people. We are, Portia decides, the people we love
Rest, v. and n.
Rest with me for the rest of this.
That's it. Come closer.
We're here.
A just fortune awaits the deserving.
[Lat., Fors aequa merentes
Respicit.]
Hello, Goddess."- Roman Arceneaux
Siry answered with one simple, shattering word. Veelox.
Virtue is the only and true nobility.
[Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]
The youngest, dumpiest, dullest of the four dull and dumpy daughters whom Mrs. Van Osburgh, with unsurpassed astuteness, had "placed" one by one in enviable niches of existence!
Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze.
[Lat., Virtus repulse nescia sordidae,
Intaminatis fulget honoribus;
Nec sumit aut ponit secures
Arbitrio popularis aurae.]
This is the great evil in wine, it first seizes the feet; it is a cunning wrestler.
[Lat., Magnum hoc vitium vino est,
Pedes captat primum; luctator dolosu est.]
Your word is more than : Only One Word.
Remember.
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Cassita vulneratus. Raven awoke with a start.
the beautiful wreckage of mercy.
Passage Vero-Dodat - I started my company on this passage. It feels as much home as it can!
It lifts my spirits to see the statues of mothers, working women, and female peasants. These respectful and well-maintained tributes to women make the day special for me; this art is a lasting reminder that women matter in these rural Spanish towns and that women's contributions are remembered.
Per ardua ad astra. Through adversity to the stars.
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
You trump Valentine's Day chocolates.
Valar Dohaeris. All must men serve.
I gave everything for you, Vasilisa Petrovna.'
'Not everything,' said Vasya. 'Since clearly your pride is intact, as well as your illusions.
Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower.
[Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.]
Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
[Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]
Raft of the Medusa.
But I used to think," Josef says quietly, "that there are some weeds that are just as beautiful as flowers."
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In wondrous ways do the gods make sport with men.
[Lat., Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus.]
The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue.
[Lat., Semita certe
Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.]
His mouth came to hers suddenly, hovering above those thirsting lips as he drilled her with the intensity of his mercury gaze.
"Neliss ... " he murmured, reverting to the elegance of their ancient language. "Neliss ent desita."
Beauty of the ages.
The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants.
[Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
A dis plura feret.]
Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
All, whether believers or not, find something to love, and to love intensely, in the Virgin of Guadalupe. Against her in this land, no man blasphemes. She is the ideal, the light that shines above our strife and our incredulity.
The madrigore of verjuice must be talthibianised.
The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.