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Quotes Flashcards

1
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It gains strength by going

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Vires acquirit eundo - Virgil

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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives

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Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia - Cicero

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The die has been cast

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Alia iacta est - Caesar

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Always the same thing

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Semper idem - Cicero

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If you wish to be loved, love

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Si vis amari, ama - Seneca

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Ignorance is the cause of fear

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Timendi causa est nescire - Seneca

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Every man is the artisan of his own fortune

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Faber est suae quisque fortunae - Appius Claudius Caecus

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It’s a bad plan that can’t be changed

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Malum consilium quod mutari non potest - Publilius Syrus

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For those in misery, better things may follow

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Forsan miseros meliora sequentur - Virgil

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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good

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Malum quidem nullum esse sine aliquo bono - Pliny The Elder

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Fortune favors the brave

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Fortis fortuna adiuvat - Terence
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Audentis fortuna iuvat - Virgil

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12
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One hand washes the other

Lit. The hand washes a hand

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Manus manum lavat - Petronius

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The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena

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Gladiator in arena consilium capit - Seneca

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If I cannot move Heaven, I will raise Hell

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Flectere si nequeo superos Acheronta movebo - Virgil, the Aeneid

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To err is human

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Errare humanum est - Seneca the Younger (maybe)

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16
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To be, rather than to seem

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Esse quam videri - Cicero, De Amicitia

17
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There is measure in things

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Est modus in rebus - Horace, Satires

18
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I have reared a monument more enduring than bronze

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exegi monumentum aere perennius - Horace, Carmina

19
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I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting

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Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore - Cicero

20
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Seize the day

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Carpe diem -Horace, ode 1.11

21
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It is a sweet and fitting thing to die for one’s country

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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori -Horace

22
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Now we must drink

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Nunc est bibendum -Horace

23
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Dare to be wise

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Sapere aude -Horace

24
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Golden mean

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Aurea mediocritas -Horace

25
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Bread and circuses

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Panem et circenses -Juvenal

26
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A sound mind in a sound body

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Mens sana in corpore sano -Juvenal

27
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A rare bird

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Rara avis -Juvenal

28
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Who will guard the guardians themselves?

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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? -Juvenal

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