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41 Cards in this Set
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Culpa est mea
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"The fault is mine," Dear Abby's favorite
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Senatus populusque Romanus
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"The Senate and the Roman people"
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Persona non grata
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"A person unwelcome"
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E pluribus unum
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"One from many"
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Lapsus linguae
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"A slip of the tongue"
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Esse quam videri
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"To be rather than to seem," Sallust said this of Cato; it is also the motto of North Carolina
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Condemnant quod non intellegunt
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"They condemn because they do not understand"
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Sic semper tyrannis
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"Thus always to tyrants"
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Sic transit gloria mundi
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"Thus passes the glory of the world"
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Veni, vidi, vici
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"I came, I saw, I conquered"
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Habeas corpus
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"You may (must) have the body"
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In hoc signo vinces
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"In this sign you will conquer"
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Quo vadis
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"Where are you going?
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Tempus fugit
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"Time flies"
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Summum Bonum
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"The Greatest Good"
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Verbum sat sapienti
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"A word to the wise is enough"
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Te morituri salutamus
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"We who are about to die salute you"
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Semper fidelis
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"Always faithful"
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carpe diem
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"Seize the day"
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Status quo
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"The State in Which (we are)"
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Cui bono
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"To whom for a good? (Who got the profit?)"
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Quid pro quo
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"What for what"
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Non sequitur
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"It does not follow"
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Dum spiro, spero
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"While I breathe, I hope"
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Per Diem
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"By the Day"
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Pro bono publico
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"For the public good," - probono
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Non compos mentis
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"Not sound of mind"
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Sui generis
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"Of its own kind," unique
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Mens conscia recti
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"A mind conscious of right"
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Caveat Emptor
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"Let the buyer beware"
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Mens sana in corpore sano
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"A sound mind in a sound body"
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Nil disputandum de gustibus
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"No disputing about tastes"
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Sunt lacrimae rerum
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"There are tears for things"
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Descensus Averno facilis est
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"Easy is the descent to Avernus"
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Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes
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"I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts"
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Quod Sum Eris
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"I am what you will be," a motto for a gravestone
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Sine Qua Non
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"Without which nothing," an absolute necessity
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Pro Tempore
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"For the Time Being"
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Cogito, ergo sum
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"I think, therefore I am"
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Nihil de nihilo fit
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"Nothing comes from nothing,"
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Pons Asinorum
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"The Bridge of Fools"
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