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===== Latin Quotes =====

>Quidquid agas, prudenter agas, et respice finem.
>>Whatever you do, do cautiously, and look to the end.

>Sic transit gloria mundi.
>>Thus passes the glory of the world.

Tags: Advice, Life

>Vita brevis,ars longa,occasio praeceps,experimentum periculosum,iudicium difficile.
>>Life is short,
>>and art long,
>>opportunity fleeting,
>>experimentations perilous,
>>and judgement difficult.

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

>Sedula curavi, humanas actiones non ridere, non lugere, neque detestare, sed intelligere.
>>I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

‘Tractatus Politicus’ 1, 4

>‘Pone seram, cohibe.’ Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? Cauta est et ab illis incipit uxor.
>> ‘Bolt her in, keep her indoors.’ But who is to guard the guards themselves? Your wife arranges accordingly and begins with them.

‘Satires’ no. 6, l. 347
Juvenal

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