With these meager scraps of Latin and the like, you may perhaps be taken for a scholar, which is honorable and profitable these days.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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Is it not lack of faith that leads men to fear the scrutiny of reason? If the destination is doubtful, than the path must be fraught with fear. A robust faith need not fear, for if God exists, then reason cannot help but lead us to Him. Cogito, ergo Deus est,'says St. Augustine, I think, therefore God is.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

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Noli me tangere,
noli me legere,
noli me videre,
noli me

Mark Z. Danielewski

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A Roman centurion walks into a bar and orders a martinus.

The bartender says, "Don't you mean a martini?"

The centurion answers, "If I wanted a double I would have ordered it.

Harlan Wolff

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Anyway, she sings like a mad tropical bird, and it's just a fondue of molten wanting and grieving and the sadness of the large naked swinging breasts and soft olive skin and everything that you wish you could remember and feel and know.

Nicholson Baker

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Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)

Horatius

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As Brother Francis readily admitted, his mastery of pre-Deluge English was far from masterful yet. The way nouns could sometimes modify other nouns in that tongue had always been one of his weak points. In Latin, as in most simple dialects of the region, a construction like servus puer meant about the same thing as puer servus, and even in English slave boy meant boy slave. But there the similarity ended. He had finally learned that house cat did not mean cat house, and that a dative of purpose or possession, as in mihi amicus, was somehow conveyed by dog food or sentry box even without inflection. But what of a triple appositive like fallout survival shelter? Brother Francis shook his head. The Warning on Inner Hatch mentioned food, water, and air; and yet surely these were not necessities for the fiends of Hell. At times, the novice found pre-Deluge English more perplexing than either Intermediate Angelology or Saint Leslie's theological calculus.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

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Serva me, servabo te

Petronius

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Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes

Publilius Syrus

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