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a blank slate
(the mind, before receiving outside impressions)
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Fortuna est caeca.
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Angustus animus pecuniam amat.
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The narrow mind loves money.
(Cicero, De Officiis – On Duties) |
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Salus populi suprema lex esto.
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Crataegus punctata ~ Spotted Hawthorne / State flower of Missouri |
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Let the safety of the people be the highest law.
Cicero, De Legibus
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Mens quieta, vires, prudens simplicitas, amici ~ haec vitam beatiorem faciunt.
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A quiet mind, strength, prudent simplicity, friends ~ these things make life happier.
(Martial, Epigrams) |
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Homerus auditorem
in medias res rapit.
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Homer hurries his listener into the
midst of things.
(Horace, Epistulae– Letters) |
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Out of many, one.
(From the Great Seal of the United States of America)
Originally, from a poem, Moreta, perhaps by Vergil, which describes the ingredients to be mixed together for a salad...garlic, parsley, rue and onions, seasoned with cheese, salt, coriander and vinegar, sprinkled with oil...all the colors of the ingredients, mixed together, make one new color. |
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Ad astra per aspera
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To the stars through difficulties.
motto of the state of Kansas |
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Errare humanum est.
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To err is human.
The Roman Stoic philosopher, Seneca the Younger |
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Dum spiro, spero.
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While I breathe, I hope.
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The Roman senator, Cicero |
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Nec vitia nostra nec remedia tolerare possumus.
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We can tolerate neither our vices nor their remedies.
Titus Livius ~ Livy, in the preface to his history of Rome,
AB URBE CONDITA (From the Foundation of the City) |
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