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198 Cards in this Set
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Mundas vult decipi
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The world wants to be deceived
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Ex nilhilo nihil fit
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From, or out of, nothing, nothing comes; nothing begetes nothing.)
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Intellectum valde amat
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Love the intellect strongly. (St. Augustine)
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Vade mecum
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Come with me. A constant companion
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Cum grano salis
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With a grain of salt. (Pliny the Elder?)
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Nulla dies sine linea
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Not a day without a line. Do something every day! (Apeles, Greek painter)
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Nonne de novo eboraco venis?
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You're from New York, aren't you?
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Favete linguis
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To keep a (religious) silence. (Horace)
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O praeclarum custodem ovium lupum!
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An excellent protector of sheep, the wolf! (Cicero)
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Multun, non multa
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Much, not many (quality not quantity)
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Sine ira et studio
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Without anger or bias. (Tacitus)
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In quaestione versare
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To be under investigation
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Noli equi dentes inspicere donati
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Do not look a gift horse in the mouth. (St. Jerome)
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Eiusdem generis
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Of the same kind
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Solitudinem fecerunt, pacem appelunt
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They made a desert and called it peace. (Tacitus)
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Lector benevole
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Kind reader
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Qvi me amat, amat et canem meam
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Who loves me loves my dog as well. Love me love my dog
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Ad nauseum
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To the point of making one sick
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Adsum
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I am here
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Rex regnant sed non gubernat
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The king reigns but does not govern
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Vivat rex
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long live the king
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Quaere verum
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Seek the truth
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Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est
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The designated hitter rule has got to go
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Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare
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I think some people in togas are plotting against me
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Numero pondere et mensura Deus omnia condidit
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God created everything by number, weight and measure (Isaac Newton)
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Finem respice
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Look to the end [before setting forth]
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Age. Fac ut gaudeam
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Go ahead. Make my day!
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Scala naturae
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The ladder of nature
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Una voce
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With one voice, unanimously
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E re nata
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As circumstances dictate
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Festina lente
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Make haste slowly
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Ad honorem
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In honour. Honour not baring any material advantage
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Resurgam
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I shall rise again
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Parva scintilla saepe magnam flamam excitat
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The small sparkle often initiates a large flame
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In parvo
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In miniature
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Nolens volens
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Whether one likes it or not; willing or unwilling
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Pax et bonum!
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Peace and salvation!
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Non multa, sed multum
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Not many, but much. (Meaning, not quantity but quality) (Plinius)
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Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt
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These are the tears of things, and our mortality cuts to the heart. (Vergil)
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Ex curia
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Out of court
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Puris omnia pura
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To the pure all things are pure
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In specie
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In kind; (a) in its own form and not in an equivalent (b) in coins and not in paper money
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Ut si!
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As if!
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Omnium rerum principia parva sunt
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Everything has a small beginning. (Cicero)
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Obiit (Ob.)
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He/she died
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A pedibus usque ad caput
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From feet to head
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Et sequentes (et seq. Or seqq.)
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And those that follow
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Magister artium (MA)
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Master of arts
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Fronti nulla fides
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No reliance can be placed on appearance. (don't judge a book by its cover)
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Ad hoc
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For a particular purpose. (improvised, made up in an instant)
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Pecunia non olet
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Money has no smell. Money doesn't stink. (don't look a gift horse in the mouth) (Vespasianus)
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Utile et dulce
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Useful and pleasant
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Sub voce (Sv)
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Under the voice
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Ad valorem
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By the value, e.g. Ad valorem tax
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Disjecta membra
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The scattered remains
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Felo de se
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Suicide
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Ad referendum
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Subject to reference
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Unus multorum
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One of many. (Horace)
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Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus
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False in one thing, false in all
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Vacca foeda
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Stupid cow
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Lex non scripta
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The unwritten (common) law
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In usu
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in use
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Aude sapere
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Dare to know
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Orbiter dictum/dicta
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Said by the way (miscellaneous remarks)
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Rerum concordia discors
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The concord of things through discord. (Horace)
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Virtute et armis
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By courage and by arms
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Audere est facere
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To dare is to do. (Motto of Tottenham Hotspur)
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Bellum omium contra omnes
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Everyman's struggle against everyman. (Thomas Hobbes)
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Ego nolo caesar esse
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I don't want to be Caesar. (Florus)
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Tibi gratias agimus quod nihil fumas
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Thank you for not smoking
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In posterum
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Till the next day
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Nisi
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Unless
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Vox populi
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The voice of the people
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Ad litem
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For a lawsuit or action
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Argumentum ad ignorantiam
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Arguing from ignorance
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Salus populi suprema lex
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The safety of the people is the supreme law. (Cicero)
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Venire facias
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You must make come
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Coruscantes disci per convexa caeli volantes
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Flying saucers
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Ubi fumus, ibi ignis
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Where there's smoke, there's fire
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Locus poenitentiae
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A place for repentance
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Nihil ad rem
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Nothing to do with the point
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Quidnunc? Or Quid nunc?
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What now? As a noun, a quidnunc is a busybody or a gossip
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Victoria Regina et Imperatrix (VRI)
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Victoria, Queen and Empress
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Novus homo
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A new Man; a man who was the first in his family to be elected to an office
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Vultus est index animi
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The face is the index of the soul/mind
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Post partum
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After childbirth
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Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas
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Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses. (Ovid)
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Mare nostrum
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Our sea. (Mediterranean)
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Idem
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The same
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Materia medica
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Medical matter
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Qui vir odiosus!
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What a bore!
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Redivivus
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Come back to life
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Dum spiro, spero
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While I breathe, I hope. (Cicero)
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Ad alta
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To the summit
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Hocine bibo aut in eum digitos insero?
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Do I drink this or stick my fingers in it?
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Nill illigitimi carborundum
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Do not let the bastards get you down
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Locus delicti
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The scene of the crime
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Astra inclinant, non necessitant
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The stars incline; they do not determine
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Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores
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You cling to your own ways and leave mine to me. (Petrarch)
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Necessitatis non habet legem
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Necessity knows no law
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Discere docendo
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To learn through teaching
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Nunc dimittis
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Now let depart
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Relata refero
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I tell what I have been told. (Herodotos)
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Per impossibile
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As is impossible a way to qualify a proposition that cannot ever be true
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Requiescat in pace (RIP)
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May he/she rest in peace
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In curia
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In court
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Feles mala! cur cista non uteris? stramentum novum in ea posui
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Bad kitty! Why don't you use the cat box? I put new litter in it
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Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret
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You can drive nature out with a pitchfork but she always comes back
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Missa solemnis
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Solemn Mass. (high Mass)
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Intra vires
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Within the power
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Vita mutatur, non tollitur
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Life is changed, not taken away
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Labra lege
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Read my lips
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In capite
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In chief
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Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero
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Seize the day, trust as little as possible in tomorrow. (Horace)
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Credite amori vera dicenti
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Believe love speaking the truth. (St. Jerome)
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Emitte lucem et veritatem
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Send out light and truth
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Aqua pura
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Pure water
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Studium discendi voluntate quae cogi non potest constat
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Study depends on the good will of the student, a quality which cannot be secured by compulsion
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Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo
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The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often. (Ovid)
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Obsta principiis
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Resist the beginnings
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Minime senuisti!
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You haven't aged a bit!
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Magnificat
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It magnifies
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Laudatores temporis acti
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Praisers of time past
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Spero nos familiares mansuros
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I hope we'll still be friends
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Senatus populusque romanus
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The senate and Roman people
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Pallida mors
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Pale Death. (Horace)
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Facta, non verba
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Deeds, not words. (Actions speak louder than words)
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Ius gentium
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The law of nations
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Non illigitamus carborundum
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Don't let the bastards grind you down
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Novus ordo seclorum
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A new order for the ages. (appears on the U.S. one
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Ignoratio elenchi
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An ignorance of proof
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Status quo
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The present state of affairs
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Mutato nomine
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The name being changed
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Bene qui latuit, bene vixit
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One who lives well, lives unnoticed. (Ovid)
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Communi consilio
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By common consent
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Lapsus stili
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A slip of the pen
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Sol omnibus lucet
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The sun shines upon us all. (Petronius)
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Omnia mea mecum porto
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All that is mine, I carry with me. (My wisdom is my greatest wealth) (Cicero)
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Aurora australis
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The Southern lights
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Paucis verbis, quid est deconstructionismus?
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What, in a nutshell, is deconstructionism?
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Obiter (Ob.)
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In passing
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Ut sementem feceris, ita metes
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As you sow, so shall you reap. (Cicero)
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Veni, vidi, vici
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I came, I saw, I conquered. (Julius Caesar)
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Sub dio
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Under the open sky
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Fortuna amicos parat, inopia amicos probat
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The fortune is preparing friends, the abundance is testing them
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Veto
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I forbid
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Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis
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All things are changing, and we are changing with them
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Sic faciunt omnes
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Everyone is doing it
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Ignis fatuus
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Foolish fire (will
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Suum cuique pulchrum est
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To each his own is beautiful. (Cicero)
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Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema
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I don't care. If it doesn't rhyme, it isn't a poem
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Qui dedit benificium taceat; narret qui accepit
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Let him who has done a good deed be silent; let him who has received it tell it. (Seneca)
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In forma pauperis
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In the form of a poor person; in a humble or abject manner
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Lusus naturae
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A freak of nature
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Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus
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We are slaves of the law so that we may be able to be free. (Cicero)
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Sub lite
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In dispute
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Mihi ignosce. Cum homine de cane debeo congredi
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Excuse me. I've got to see a man about a dog
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Nisi prius
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Unles previously
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Rex
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King
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Alibi
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Elsewhere
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Qvi desiderat pacem praeparat bellvm
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Who desires peace [should] prepare [for] war
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Via crucis
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The Way of the Cross
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Mus uni non fidit antro
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A mouse does not rely on just one hole. (Plautus)
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Extempore
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Without premeditation
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Vivat regina
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long live the queen
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Tu, rattus turpis!
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You dirty rat!
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Christus rex
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Christ the King
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Ipsa qvidem pretivm virtvs sibi
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Virtue is its own reward
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Liberum arbitrium
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Free will
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Interregnvm
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Period between rules anarchy, lawlessnes
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Quam bene vivas refert, non quam diu
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The important thing isn't how long you live, but how well you live. (Seneca)
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Post proelia praemia
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After the battles come the rewards
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Audi et alteram partem
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Hear the other side too
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Multi famam, conscientiam pauci verentur
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Many fear their reputation, few their conscience. (Pliny)
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Corruptio optimi pessima
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Corruption of the best is worst
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Corrigenda
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A list of things to be corrected. (in a book)
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Res severa est verum gaudium
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True joy is a serious thing. (Seneca)
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Corpus vile
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Worthless body
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Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit
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A wise man does not urinate against the wind
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Manus in mano
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Hand in hand
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Nemo hic adest illius nominis
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There is no one here by that name
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Contraria contrariis curantur
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The opposite is cured with the opposite. (Hippocrates)
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Satius est impunitum relinqui facinus nocentis, quam innocentem damnari
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It is better that a crime is left unpunished than that an innocent man is punished. (Corpus Iuris Civilis)
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Consensu omnium
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By the agreement of all
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Ivs gentivm
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Right of tribes law of nations
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Te igitur
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Thee, therefore
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Ille dolet vere, qui sine teste dolet
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He mourns honestly who mourns without witnesses. (Martialis)
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Bene
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Good
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Non timetis messor
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Don't Fear the Reaper
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Qvi bene amat bene castigat
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Who loves well castigates well. Spare the rod and spoil the child
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Ore rotundo
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With full voice
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Pacta sunt servanda
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Agreements are to be kept. (Cicero)
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Post mortem
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After death. (nowadays, the autopsy performed by a coroner)
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Spectaculorum procedere debet
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The show must go on
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Quis, quid, ubi, quibus auxiliis, cur, quomodo, quando?
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Who, what, where, with what, why, how, when?
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Mare clausum
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A closed sea
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Coniunctis viribus
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With united powers
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Adversus solem ne loquitor
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Don't speak against the sun (don't waste your time arguing the obvious)
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