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Tag Name "Nihil" (16)

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Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.
Seneca the Younger
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Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]
Cornelius Gallus
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Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I am of the opinion which you have always held, that viva voce voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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To have nothing is not poverty. [Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
Martial
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The sick mind can not bear anything harsh. [Lat., Mensque pati durum sustinet aegra nihil.]
Ovid
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Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it. [Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.]
Quintus Curtius Rufus
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Terence: nihil humanum alienum a me-nothing human is alien to me, the greatest expression of ancient megalopsychia or great-souled and cosmopolitan magnanimity.
Kenny Smith
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I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God. [Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit Non sit ut inferius suppositumque deo.]
Ovid
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Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend. [Lat., Tardo amico nihil est quidquam iniquius.]
Plautus
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I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing.
Sarah Vowell
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Natura nihil agit frustra [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputible axiom in philosophy. There are no grotesques in nature not any thing framed to fill up empty cantons, and unncecessary spaces.
Thomas Browne