Prout multis ut faciant vobis homines, et vos facite illis similiter; "As you would that men should do to you, do you also to them in like manner." From Luke 6:31 of the Latin Vulgate, a Latin version of the Bible produced by Saint Jerome in the 4th century.
From Latin vulgata editio, "an edition made public" or "an edition for ordinary people" which is a version used by the Roman Catholic Church.
A legal phrase used for assessing damages relating to privately owned land that is taken for public use. The name of a writ, formerly issued from the English chancery, commanded the sheriff to make an inquiry "to what damage" a specified act, if done, would tend.
This writ is of ancient origin and could be issued as a writ of right when a landowner is dissatisfied with the assessment of damages as a result of a condemnation commission.
Other translations include: "Pay attention to what you are doing.", i.e. "Concentrate on the task at hand." or "Attend to the work you have at hand."
This is true until you start looking for something when you need it.
Often heard from those who strive to be creative.
No one can be sued a second time for the same cause of action, if once judgment has been rendered. No one can be held to bail a second time at the suit of the same plaintiff for the same cause of action.
A legal term.
Another way of saying, "Money can buy anything or anyone." In addition, it could mean, "With enough money, one can have everything he/she wants; except good health and eternal life."
From Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 - 43 B.C.). Cicero's voluminous writings include poetry (both his own and translations from the Greek); orations (fifty-eight have survived, forty-eight are lost); compositions about rhetoric, philosophy, morals, and politics; as well as letters. His formal discourses are important historically because they contain much information on ancient thoughts. His letters are the primary source for our knowledge of the period.
After Caesar's murder, Cicero violently attacked Mark Antony in his celebrated Philippics. When the second triumvirate was formed, he was put on the list of those who were to be killed and was murdered by Antony's agents.
An alternate meaning is: "How difficult it is to be original."
Said to be from Julius Phaedous c. 15 B.C. - A.D. 45 (born in Thrace and lived as a freedman in Rome and wrote fables which are considered by some to be superior to Aesop's).
This proverb is engraved in stone above the fireplace at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina; as confirmed in an e-mail message from Grove Park Inn, dated 10 June 2002.
The quotation is also interpreted to mean: "If what we do is not useful, it is stupid to boast about it."
A better known version is "All that glitters is not gold."
From Publius Terentius Afer (c. 185 - 159 B.C.). Terence was the son of a Libyan slave and was born at Carthage. Cicero and Horace admired him for the urbanity and polish of his plays; Caesar praised his love of "pure speech".
Also translated as, "God forbid!"
Also, "What you and I find attractive, others may well find abhorrent" or "One man's meat is another man's poison."
Another version is "Easy come, easy go."
Could this be a different version of Quod scripsi scripsi?
2. A phrase used to signal that a proof has just been completed.
3. Used in a formal conclusion to indicate that something; such as, evidence of a fact is proof of the theory that has just been been advanced.
A formula appended at the end of a proof in geometry, or other mathematical solution, with the meaning, "We have proven the proposition we set out to prove."
This is often appended to a mathematical solution, with the meaning, "We have done the work we were required to do."
Also, "Why have you done this? Quo jure?"
Motto of Emperor Philipp of Swabia, Germany (1198-1208). He was murdered by Bavarian Duke Otto of Wittelsbach.
From Gaius Cornelius Gallus, in his Elegies. May we say that this is equivalent to "One who cannot pick up an ant and wants to pick up an elephant will some day see his folly"? -From George Herzog, in his Jabo Proverbs.
From Cato (c. 175 B.C.). Another Latin proverb that is similar: Omnia non pariter rerum sunt omnibus apta., "All things are not equally suitable to all men." -Propertius, Elegies.
Pilate's answer to the chief priest who objected to the title he had put on the cross. This is often used when a person is unwilling to change what he has written. -Vulgate, John, XIX, 22.
Used when the writer wants the reader to see a specific cross-reference. Always use q.v. in parenthesis (q.v.) after the desired reference.
A message engraved on tombstones as a reminder to the living as in the following poem:
Forebear and cast an eye.
As you now are so once was I,
As I am now, so shall ye be.
Prepare to die and follow me.
Another person responded with the following words:
Whether in heaven or in hell;
But to follow you I can not consent,
Until I know the way you went!