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Latin phrases: "mindful of what has been done, aware of what will be", "peace visits not the guilty mind", ...
"memores acti prudentes futuri": mindful of what has been done, aware of what will be
- from the North Hertfordshire District Council coat of arms
"nemo malus felix": peace visits not the guilty mind
"Nemo igitur vir magnus sine aliquo adflatu divino umquam fuit.": No great man ever existed who did not enjoy some portion of divine inspiration.
- from Cicero's De Natura Deorum, Book 2, chapter LXVI, 167
"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind." - Aeschylus
"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."
- Aeschylus (Ancient Greek Dramatist and Playwright known as the founder of Greek tragedy, 525 BC-456 BC)
"Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Ancient Roman Lawyer, Writer, Scholar, Orator and Statesman, 106 BC-43 BC)
"Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed."
- François de la Rochefoucauld (French classical author 1613-1680)
"Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life." - William Shakespeare
"Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life."
- William Shakespeare
"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Winston Churchill
"...a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind." - Albert Einstein
"Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind."
- Albert Einstein
"Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum ("I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am") - philosophical Latin statement
Cogito ergo sum ("I think, therefore I am") - or -
Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum ("I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am")
This is a philosophical Latin statement proposed by René Descartes.
The phrase became a fundamental element of Western philosophy, as it was perceived to form a foundation for all knowledge.
Shaw: Mean dog fights Good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected & replied, 'the one I feed the most'
"Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil." - Plato
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." - Socrates
“A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, 'The one I feed the most.'" ? George Bernard Shaw
