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199 Cards in this Set
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Carpe diem
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Seize the day (opportunity) (Horace)
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In vitro
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In a test tube (literally glass)
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Ergo bibamus
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Therefore, let us drink
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Sub sole nihil novi est
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There's nothing new under the sun
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Mens rea
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Guilty mind
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Optimis parentibus
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To my excellent parents. A common dedication in a book
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In pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello
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In peace, like a wise man, he appropriately prepares for war
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Proxime accessit
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He/she came close
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Qui non est hodie cras minus aptus erit
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He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow. (Ovid)
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Omnia mutantur, nihil interit
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Everything changes, nothing perishes. (Ovid)
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Libra solidus denarius (L.S.D.)
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Pounds, shillings, pence
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Manus manum lavat
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One hand washes the other. The favor for the favor. (Petronius)
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Res ipsa loquitur
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The thing speaks for itself
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Facilius est multa facere quam diu
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It is easier to do many things than to do one for a long time. (Quintilianus)
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Argumentum ad hominem
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An argument against the man. Directing an argument against an opponent's character rather than the subject at hand
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Amor tussisque non celantur
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Love, and a cough, are not concealed. (Ovid)
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Qvi docent discit
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He who teaches, learns. (George Bernard Shaw)
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Clara pacta, boni amici
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Clear agreements, good friends
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Tolerabiles ineptiae
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Bearable absurdities
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Errare humanum est
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To err is human. / It is human to err. (Seneca)
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Lex talionis
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The law of revenge
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In terrorem
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As a warning; in order to terrify others
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Compos mentis
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Of sound mind (and judgement)
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In extremis
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In extremity
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Appareo Decet Nihil Munditia?
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Is It Not Nifty?
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Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt
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When catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults
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Memento vivere
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A reminder of life (literally remember that you have to live)
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Arduum sane munus
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A truly arduous task
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Lupus in fabula
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The wolf in the tale (i.e. Speak of the wolf, and he will come) (Terence)
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Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia
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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives. (Cicero)
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Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes
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Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even bearing gifts. (Vergil)
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Ex ante
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Before the event, beforehand. (economics: based on prior assumptions)
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Pro opportunitate
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As circumstances allow
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Res melius evinissent cum coca
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Things go better with Coke
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Ne nimium
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Not too much
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Mea maxima culpa
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Through my very great fault
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Inter caecos regnat strabo
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Among blinds the squinting rules. (Erasmus)
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Occasio aegre offertur, facile amittitur
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Opportunity is offered with difficulty, lost with ease. (Publius Syrus)
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Bella detesta matribus
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Wars, the horror of mothers. (Horace)
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Pro re nata (Prn)
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For an occasion as it arises
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Certum est, quia impossibile
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It is certain, because it is impossible. (Tertullianus)
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Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labi
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The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. (still waters run deep)
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Consummatum est
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It is completed
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Memoria in aeterna
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In everlasting remembrance
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Abutebaris modo subjunctivo denuo
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You've been misusing the subjunctive again
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In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas
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In necessary things unity, in doubtful things liberty, in all things charity
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Diligite justitiam, o judices terrae
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Cherish justice, o judges of the earth
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Ridentem dicere verum quid vetat?
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What forbids a laughing man from telling the truth? (Horace)
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Felis qvi nihil debet
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Happy [is] he who owes nothing
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Illiud latine dici non potest
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You can't say that in Latin
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Tu quoque
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You likewise
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In medio tutissimus ibis
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In the middle of things you will go most safe. (Ovid)
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Mvtatis mvtandis
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The things that ought to have changed having been changed with the necessary substitutions having been made
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Repetitio est mater memoriae/ studiorum/
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Repetition is the mother of memory/studies
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Sub secreto
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In secret
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Vita brevis, ars lunga
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Life is short, art is long
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Quantum meruit
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As much as he/she deserved
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Amicus humani generis
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A friend of the human race (philanthropist)
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Omnia mihi lingua graeca sunt
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It's all Greek to me
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Audentes fortuna juvat
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Fortune favors the bold. (Virgil)
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Ab aeterno
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From the beginning of time
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Ex tempore
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Off the cuff, without preparation
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Ipso facto
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By the fact itself
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Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes
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It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. (Publilius Syrus)
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Ad locum
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At the place
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Est modus in rebus
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There is a middle ground in things. (Horace)
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Qvalis artifex pereo
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Such an artist dies in me
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In re
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Refering to
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Post hoc ergo propter hoc
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After this, therefore because of this
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Utinam populus romanus unam cervicem haberet!
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If only the Roman people had one neck!
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Homo sum
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I am a man
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Sit vis nobiscum
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May the Force be with you
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Fama volat
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The rumour has wings. (Vergil)
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Finis coronat opus
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The ending crowns the work. (Ovid)
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Simplex munditiis
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Unaffected by manners. (Horace)
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Melitae amor
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Love of Malta
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Struit insidias lacrimis cum femina plorat
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When a woman weeps, she is setting traps with her tears. (Dionysius Cato)
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Dum inter homines sumus, colamus humanitatem
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane. (Seneca)
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In banco
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On the bench
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Salve veritate
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Saving the truth
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Nvnc avt nvnqvam
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Now or never
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Radix omnium malorum est cupiditas
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the love of money is the root of all evil. Avarice is the problem, money itself is not evil
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Gramen artificiosum odi
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I hate Astroturf
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Impossibilium nulla obligatio est
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Nobody has any obligation to the impossible. (Corpus Iuris Civilis)
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Nvllvm qvod tetiget non ornavit
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He touched none he did not adorn
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Potius mori quam foedari
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rather to die than to be dishonoured (death before dishonour)
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Absit omen
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May the omen be absent. (may this not be an omen)
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Revera linguam latinam vix cognovi
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I don’t really know all that much Latin
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Opere citato (op. Cit.)
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In the work just quoted
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Nunc est bibendum
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Now we must drink. (Horace)
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Quae vide (Qqv)
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See these things
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Flagrante delicto
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Literally while the crime is blazing. Caught red
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Nemo me impune lacessit
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No one provokes me with impunity. (motto of the kings of Scotland)
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Unum necessarium
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The one necessary
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Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit
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Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdues both intelligence and skill. (Cicero)
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Machina improba! Vel mihi ede potum vel mihi redde nummos meos!
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You infernal machine! Give me a beverage or give me my money back!
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Malum consilium quod mutari non potest
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It's a bad plan that can't be changed. (Publilius Syrus)
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Divide et impera
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Divide and conquer
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Consule planco
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In the consulship of Plancus (In the good old days) (Horace)
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Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?
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How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? (Cicero)
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Nemo risum praebuit, qui ex se coepit
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Nobody is laughed at, who laughs at himself. (Seneca)
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Ubi dubium ibi libertas
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Where there is doubt, there is freedom
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Tempus fugit
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Time flees
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Homo vitae commodatus non donatus est
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Man has been lent to life, not given. (Pubilius Syrus)
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Saepe stilum vertas
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May you often turn the stylus (You should make frequent corrections.)
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Nummus americanus
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Greenback. ($US)
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Scandalum magnatum
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Scandal of magnates
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Variorum
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Of various people
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Anno regni
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In the year of reign
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Dum spiramus tuebimur
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While we breathe, we shall defend
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Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor
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I see the better way and approve it, but I follow the worse way
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Lumen naturale
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Natural light
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Et sequens (et seq.)
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And the following
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Qvi nescit dissimlare nescit regnare
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He who doesn't know how to lie doesn't know how to rule
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Id tibi praebet speciem lepidissimam!
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It looks great on you!
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Pavpertas omnivm artivm repertrix
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Poverty [is the] inventor of all the arts necessity is the mother of invention
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Urbanus et instructus
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A gentleman and a scholar
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Victurus te saluto
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He who is about to win salutes you
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Qui multum habet, plus cupit
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He who has much desires more. (Seneca)
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Regnat populus
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Let the People rule
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Ex post facto
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After the fact, or Retrospectively
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Hac lege
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with this law
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Navigare necesse est
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To sail is necessary
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Ex proprio motu
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Voluntarily
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Nihil declaro
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I have nothing to declare
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Floreat regina regina
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May it flourish. (The motto of the City of Regina, Saskatchewan Canada)
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Vestis virum reddit
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The clothes make the man. (Quintilianus)
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Verum et factum convertuntur
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The true and the made are interchangeable. One can know with certainty only what he have created himself
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A mari usque ad mare
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From sea to sea (Motto of Canada)
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Omne trium perfectum
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Everything that comes in threes is perfect
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Nullius in verba
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(Rely) on the words on no one. (Horace)
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Visne saltare? Viam Latam Fungosam scio
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Do you want to dance? I know the Funky Broadway
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De jure
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By law. According to law
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Exceptio probat regulam de rebus non exceptis
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An exception establishes the rule as to things not excepted
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Serva me, servabo te
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Save me and I will save you. (Petronius Arbiter)
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Sensu stricto, nullo metro compositum est
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Strictly speaking, it doesn't rhyme
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Alterum ictum faciam
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I'm going to take a mulligan
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Mens agitat molem
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The mind moves the matter. (Vergil)
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Persona (non) grata
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(un)welcome person
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Nemo liber est qui corpori servit
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No one is free who is a slave to his body
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Ite, misse est
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Go, the Mass is finished
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Fama crescit eundo
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The rumour grows as it goes. (Vergil)
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Sic
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Thus, just so
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Quomodo cogis comas tuas sic videri?
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How do you get your hair to do that?
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Satis
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Enough
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Bonum vinum laetificat cor hominis
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Good wine gladdens a person's heart
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Virtus in medio stat
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Virtue stands in the middle
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Incipit
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Begin here
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Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit
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There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part. (Pliny the Younger)
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Stultorum infinitus est numerus
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Infinite is the number of fools. (Bible)
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Gnothe seauton (Greek)
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Know thyself
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Odium theologicum
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Theological hatred. (a special name for the hatred generated in theological disputes)
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Ad acta
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To archives. Not actual any more
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In spiritu et veritate
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In spirit and truth. (Versio Vulgata)
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Tacet
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Silence
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Mors ultima linea rerum est
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Death is everything's final limit. (Horace)
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Vincit omnia amor
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Love conquers all
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Nulla avarita sine poena est
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There is no avarice without penalty. (Seneca)
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Fallaces sunt rerum species
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The appearances of things are deceptive. (Seneca)
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Bis vivit qui bene vivit
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He lives twice who lives well
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Nil desperandum!
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Never despair! (Horace)
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Aspice, officio fungeris sine spe honoris amplioris
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Face it, you're stuck in a dead end job
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Ante prandium (A.p.)
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Before a meal
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Sunt pueri pueri, puerilia tractant
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Children are children, (therefore) children do childish things
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Pictor ignotus
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Painter unknown
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Do ut des
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I give so that you give back
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Ita erat quando hic adveni
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It was that way when I got here
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Quos amor verus tenuit, tenebit
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True love will hold on to those whom it has held. (Seneca)
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Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
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How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
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Modus vivendi
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Way of living
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Non uno die roma aedificata est
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Rome was not built in one day (either)
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Mater artium necessitas
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Necessity is the mother of invention
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Scio me nihil scire
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I know that I know nothing. Certain knowledge cannot be obtained. (Socrates)
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Placebo
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I will please. Medical expression for remedies with no medical effect, which improve one's medical condition only because one believes they do
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Ego et rex meus
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I and my King
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Incredibile dictu
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Incredible to say
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Liberate te ex inferis
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Save yourself from hell
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Rigor mortis
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The rigidity of death
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Cacoethes scribendi
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An insatiable urge to write. (Juvenal)
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Per varios usus artem experientia fecit
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Through different exercises practice has brought skill. (Manilius)
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Virum mihi, Camena, insece versutum
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Tell me, O Muse, of the skillful man. (Livius Andronicus)
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Non est vivere sed valere vita est
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Life is not being alive but being well (life is more than just being alive)
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Mea mihi conscientia pluris est quam omnium sermo
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My conscience means more to me than all speech. (Cicero)
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Ad vitam paramus
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We are preparing for life
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Pueri pueri, pueri puerilia tractant
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Children are children, (therefore) children do childish things
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Ab imo pectore
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From the bottom of the chest. (from the heart)
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Scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter
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Your knowledge is nothing when no one else knows that you know it
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Ante
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Before
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Annus bisextus
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Leap year
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Utinam coniurati te in foro interficiant!
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May conspirators assassinate you in the mall!
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Odi et amo
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I hate (her), and I love (her) (Catullus)
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Fide, non armis
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By faith, not arms
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Stultorum calami carbones moenia chartae
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Chalk is the pen of fools, walls (their) paper No Graffiti please. Showing that graffiti is nothing new
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Fac me cocleario vomere!
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Gag me with a spoon!
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Exit
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He/she goes out
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Melius tarde, quam nunquam
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Better late than never
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Sic itur ad astra
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Such is the path to the stars (i.e. Gain reputation) (Vergil)
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Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant
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May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy
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Qvod cibvs est aliis, aliis est wenenum
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What is food to some is poison to others. One man's meat is another poison
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