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199 Cards in this Set
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Disiecti membra poetae
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Limbs of a dismembered poet. (Horace)
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Credo quia absurdum
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I believe it because it is absurd. (contrary to reason) (Tertullian)
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Imperium et libertas
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Empire and liberty. (Cicero)
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Iubilate Deo
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Rejoice in God
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Vis maior
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Higher force
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Non omne quod nitet aurum est
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Not all that glitters is gold
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Hoc est verum et nihili nisi verum
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This is the truth and nothing but the truth
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Iure humano
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By human law
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Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum videtur
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Anything said in Latin sounds profound
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Victoria, non praeda
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Victory, not loot
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Ars sine scienta nihil est
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Art without science is nothing. (I would also claim that the opposite is true)
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Fides punica
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Treachery. (Livy)
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Perpetuo vincit qui utitur clementia
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He is forever victor who employs clemency. (Syrus)
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Homo praesumitur bonus donec probetur malus
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One is innocent until proven guilty
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Imitatores, servum pecus!
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Imitators, you slavish crowd! (Horace)
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Plvres crapvla qvam gladivs
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Drunkeness [kills] more than the sword. As true today on the road as it ever was
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Vires acquirit eundo
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It gains strength by going / as it goes. (Virgil)
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Potius sero quam numquam
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It's better late than never. (Livy)
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Index librorum prohibitorum
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Official list of forbidden books not to be read by Catholics
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Oblitus sum perpolire clepsydras!
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I forgot to polish the clocks!
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Siste, viator
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Wait, traveler
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Aurea mediocritas
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The golden mean. (an ethical goal; truth and goodness are generally to be found in the middle.) (Horace)
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Cornucopia
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Horn of plenty
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Agnus dei
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The Lamb of God
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Respice post te, mortalem te esse memento
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Look around you, remember that you are mortal. (Tertullianus)
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In actu
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In practice
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Rumores volant. / Rumor volat
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Rumors fly. / Rumor flies
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Scientia est potentia
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Knowledge is power
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Nil actum credens dum quid superesset agendum
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Thinking nothing done, while anything was yet to do
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E pluribus unum
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From many, one (Motto of the USA)
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Ubi mel ibi apes
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Where honey, there bees, i.e., if you want support, you must offer something in return
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In silvam ne ligna feras
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Don't carry logs into the forest. (Horace)
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Qui tacet, consentit
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Silence gives consent
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Non bis in idem
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Not twice for the same thing
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Culpam poena premit comes
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Punishment closely follows crime as its companion. (Horace)
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Armis Exposcere Pacem
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They demanded peace by force of arms. (An inscription seen on medals)
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Annuit coeptis
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God has favored us
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Res in cardine est
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The matter is on a door hinge things are balanced on a knife's edge
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Cedant arma togae
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Let arms yield to the toga. (Let violence give place to law)
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Vide et credere
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See and believe
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Lapsus alumni
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Error made
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Ubi bene, ibi patria
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Where you feel good, there is your home
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Sic erat in fatis
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So it was fated
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Bella gerant alii
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Let others wage war
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Omnia iam fient quae posse negabam
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Everything which I used to say could not happen will happen now. (Ovid)
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Sotto voce
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In soft voice
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Meum pactum dictum
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My word is my bond
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Abyssus abyssum invocat
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Hell calls hell; one mistep leads to another
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Qvalis pater talis filivs
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Like father like son. The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree
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Cogito ergo doleo
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I think therefore I am depressed
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Nomina stultorum parietibus haerent
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The names of foolish persons adhere to walls (Fools names and fools faces are often seen in public places.)
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Amor caecus est
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Love is blind
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Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum!
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Don't you dare erase my hard disk!
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Esse quam videri
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To be rather than to seem
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo
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I'll have a pizza with everything on it
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Lex scripta
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The written law
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Scientia non habet inimicum nisp ignorantem
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Science has no enemies but the ignorants
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Te capiam, cunicule sceleste!
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i'll get you, you wascally wabbit!
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Non semper erit aestas
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It will not always be summer (be prepared for hard times)
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Idem quod (i.q.)
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The same as
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Extra ecclesiam nulla salus
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Outside the Church [there is] No Salvation. (A phrase of much disputed significance in Roman Catholic theology)
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Aeronavis abstractio a prestituto cursu
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Hijacking
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In gremio legis
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In the protection of the law
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Quod erat faciendum (QEF)
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Which was to be done
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Mirabile visu
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Wonderful to behold
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Te nosce
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Know thyself
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Spero melior
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I hope for better things
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Quid pro quo
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Something for something. i.e. A favor for a favor
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Ut ameris, ama!
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To be loved, love!
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Fortitudine vincimus
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By endurance we conquer
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Res gestae
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Things done
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Non omnes qui habemt citharam sunt citharoedi
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Not all those who own a musical instrument are musicians. (Bacon)
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Ratio decidendi
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The reason for the decision
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Culpa
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A sin
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Hunc tu caveto
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Beware of this man
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Forsan miseros meliora sequentur
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For those in misery perhaps better things will follow. (Virgil)
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In magnis et voluisse sat est
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To once have wanted is enough in great deeds. (Propertius)
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Lux et veritas
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Light and Truth
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Pro patria
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For one's country
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Inter vivos
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Between living (people)
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Commune periculum concordiam parit
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Common danger brings forth harmony
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Fames est optimus coquus
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Hunger is the best cook
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Quod erat demonstrandum (QED)
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Which was to be demonstrated
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Ut infra
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As below
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Proximus sum egomet mihi
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I am closest to myself. (Charity begins at home.) (Terence)
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Licet
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It is allowed
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Gloria in excelsis deo
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Glory to God in the highest
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Fidus Achates
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faithful Achates (friend)
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Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior
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Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. (Erasmus)
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Respice, adspice, prospice
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Examine the past, examine the present, examine the future (look to the past, the present, the future)
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Gloria virtutis umbra
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Glory (is) the shadow of virtue
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In distans
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At a distance
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Viri sunt viri
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Men are slime
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De bene esse
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It shall be so, as long as it is well
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Latet anguis in herba
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A snake lies in the grass. (Vergil)
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Lavdem virtvtis necessitati damvs
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We give to necessity the praise of virtue finding the benefit in what's needful
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Ante mortem
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Before death
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Ad hominem
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Appealing to a person's physical and emotional urges, rather than her or his intellect
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In nomine patris et filii et spiritus santi
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In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
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Fluctuat nec mergitur
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It is tossed by the waves but it does not sink
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Varia lecto (v.l.)
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Variant reading
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Peccavi
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I have sinned
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Brevior saltare cum deformibus mulieribus est vita
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Life is too short to dance with ugly women
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Per diem
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Per day; daily allowance
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Pro bono (pro bono publico)
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For the good of the public
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Cogita ante salis
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Think before you leap, or look before you leap
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In praesenti
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At the present time
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Cuivis dolori remedium est patientia
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Patience is the cure for all suffer
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Dominus illuminatio mea
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The Lord is my light
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Qualis pater talis filius
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As is the father, so is the son; like father, like son
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Fabricati diem
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Make my day
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Magna cum laude
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With great honour or academic distinction
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Possunt quia posse videntur
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They can because they think they can
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Ubi sunt?
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Where are they (the good old days)?
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Ense et aratro
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With sword and plow. (citizen
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Accipere quam facere praestat injuriam
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It is better to suffer an injustice than to do an injustice
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Omne tvlit pvnctvm qvi miscvit vtile dvlci
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[he] has gained every point who has combined [the] useful [with the] agreeable
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Quasi
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As if
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Post factum
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After the fact
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Principiis obsta
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Resist the beginnings
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Locum tenens
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One occupying the place (used as an English noun meaning 'deputy')
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Vivat, crescat, floreat!
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May he/she/it live, grow, and flourish!
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Obiter dictum
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Something said in passing
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Est deus in nobis
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The is a god inside us
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Vis comica
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Sense of humour
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Ratio legis est anima legis
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The reason of the law is the soul of the law
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Ubi maior, minor cessat
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The weak (minor) capitulates before the strong (major)
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Vixere fortes ante agamemnona
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Brave men lived before Agamemnon. (heroism exists even if it's not recorded)
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Leve fit, quod bene fertur, onus
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The burden is made light which is borne well. (Ovid)
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Salve sis
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May you be well
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Nemo surdior est quam is qui non audiet
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No man is more deaf than he who will not hear
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Me fallit
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I do not know
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Melius frangi quam flecti
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It is better to break than to bend
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Ne humanus crede
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Trust no human
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Qui nimium probat, nihil probat
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One who proves too much, proves nothing
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Nec possum tecum vivere, nec sine te
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I am able to live / I can live neither with you, nor without you. (Martial)
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Ad vitam
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For life
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Affidavit
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A sworn written statement usable as evidence in court
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In pontificalibus
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In the proper vestments of a pope or cardinal
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Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur
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That man is wise who talks little (know when to hold your tongue)
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Una hirundo non facit ver
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One Swallow does not make Summer. (Horace)
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Multis post annis
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Many years later
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Ex more
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According to custom
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In personam
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Against the person
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Tamdiu discendum est, quamdiu vivas
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We should learn as long as we may live. (We live and learn.) (Seneca Philosophus)
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Sub judice
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Before a court
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Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos
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As long as you are fortunate, you will have many friends (when you are successful, everyone wants to be your friend)
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Verbatim et litteratim
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Word for word and letter for letter
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Functus officio
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Having discharged his duty and thus ceased to have any authority over a matter
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Monstra mihi pecuniam!
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Show me the money!
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Illius me paenitet, dux
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Sorry about that, chief
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Non omne quod licet honestum est
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Not everything that is permitted is honest. (Corpus Iuris Civilis)
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Ne plus ultra
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No further. Impassable obstacle
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Literati
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Men of letters
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Sine nobilitatis
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Without nobility (SNOB)
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Maecenas atavis edite regibus
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Maecenas, born of monarch ancestors. (Horace)
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Ab initio
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From the beginning
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A mensa et thoro
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From board and bed (legal separation)
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Vltra vires
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Beyond [one's] authority outside the jurisdiction
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Desunt cetera
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The rest is missing
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Fecit (fec.)
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Made by
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Bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria
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He conquers twice who in the hour of conquest conquers himself. (Syrus)
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Corpus juris canonici
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The body of canon law
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Vivere disce, cogita mori
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Learn to live; Remember death. (sundial inscription)
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Prima facie
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At first sight; on the face of it. (in law, an obvious case that requires no further proof)
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Si fallatis officium, quaestor infitias eat se quicquam scire de factis vestris
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If you fail, the secretary will disavow all knowledge of your activities
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Lex domicilii
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The law of a person's home country
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Nullo metro compositum est
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It doesn't rhyme
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Ab urbe condita
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From the foundation of the city. (Rome)
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Homines libenter quod volunt credunt
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Men believe what they want to. (Terentius)
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Penetalia mentis
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The innermost recesses of the mind. Heart of hearts
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Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes
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Flatterers are the worst type of enemies
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Fax mentis incedium gloriae
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The passion of glory is the torch of the mind
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Non scholae sed vitae discimus
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We do not learn for school, but for life. (Seneca)
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Potest ex casa magnus vir exire
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A great man can come from a hut. (Seneca)
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Post scriptum (P.S)
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After what has been written
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Ut supra (Ut sup.)
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As above
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Dies felices
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Happy Days
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Ad augusta per angusta
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To high places by narrow roads
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Res publica
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The public thing
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Quidquid agis, prudenter agas et respice finem!
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Whatever you do, do cautiously, and look to the end
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Dei gratia
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By the grace of God
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Victoria Imperatrix Regina (VIR)
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Victoria, Empress and Queen
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Sic passim
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Thus everywhere
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Neutiquam erro
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I am not lost
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Consuetudinis magna vis est
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The force of habit is great. (Cicero)
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Aquila non captat muscas
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The eagle doesn't capture flies (don't sweat the small things)
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Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est
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Life is more than merely staying alive
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A fortiori
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With yet stronger reason
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Nemo gratis mendax
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No man lies freely. A person with no reason to lie is telling the truth
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Camera obscvra
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Hidden room
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Potes currere sed te occulere non potes
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You can run, but you can't hide
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Pecunia in arbotis non crescit
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Money does not grow on trees
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Locus enim est principum generationis rerum
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For place is the origin of things. (Roger Bacon)
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Ecce signum
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behold the proof
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Non nobis, Domine
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Not unto us, O Lord
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Radicitus, comes!
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Really rad, dude!
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Et in arcadia ego
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I, also, am in Arcadia
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Brevis ipsa vita est sed malis fit longior
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Our life is short but is made longer by misfortunes. (Publilius Syrus)
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