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Translation: "Expect from others what you have done to them."

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.

Another way must be tried.

This strongly suggests that someone's present efforts will prove fruitless so, "We must go back and try another approach."

1. An assumed or false name used to conceal one's identity: The criminal was known by various aliases.

To keep the police off his tracks, the criminal assumed an alias whenever he moved to live in another place.

2. At another time; in another place; in other circumstances; otherwise: In the alias of the last century, Mr. Smith was known as Lord J. C. Wigglebottom.
3. In the field of electronics, a misleading electronic signal that is technologically generated: The computer expert recognized the aliases and was able to modify the program to overcome the difficulties. © ALL rights are reserved.

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1. Translation: "Otherwise called."

"Samuel Langhorne Clemens, alias dictus was Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), who was an American author who wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer among several other novels."

2. Etymology: from Latin alias, "otherwise, at another time". Also from Latin dictus, the perfect passive participle of dico, "to say".

1. In law, a form of defense whereby a defendant attempts to prove that he or she was elsewhere when the crime in question was committed.
2. The fact of having been elsewhere when a crime in question was committed.
3. An explanation offered to avoid blame or justify action; an excuse.

1. To make an excuse for oneself.
2. To make an excuse for another person.

1. A citizen of a country other than the one he or she is currently living in: The alien who was trying to learn English was told that it was not acceptable to stick out his tongue when trying to pronounce th.
2. Anyone who does not belong to, or does not feel accepted by, a group or society.
3. A being from another planet, or another part of the universe; especially, in works of science fiction.
4. Not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something.

Another's faults are before our eyes; our own [faults] are behind us.

Expressed by Seneca, in his writing titled, On Anger.

Relating to something that is transferable to another owner: The property that the Johnsons owned was alienable, so they were going to sell it the following year.

1. To arouse hostility or indifference where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness: After Mr. Black had won a million dollars in the lottery, he made new friends, and the ones he had had were slowly alienated from his social group.
2. To cause someone to change his or her previously friendly or supportive attitude and to become unfriendly, unsympathetic, or hostile: The disagreement between the two girls who lived together alienated their warm sociability with each other.
3. To make someone feel that he or she does not belong to or is not allowed to share in something, or is isolated from it: People with a meagre amount of income often feel alienated from society.
4. To cause something, especially someone's affections, to be directed toward somebody or something else: Susan was very upset with her boyfriend's rude behaviour towards her, which alienated, or induced, her to move out of their apartment and find a new one for herself.
5. To transfer property, or a legal right, to the ownership of another person, especially by an act of the owner rather than by inheritance: Gregory, the landlord of the condo, decided to alienate his home to his wife before he got too old so that she would be the titleholder of it. © ALL rights are reserved.

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A person who is an expert in mental illness; especially, with reference to someone's legal-mental competence: Mark's uncle was an alienist, or psychiatrist, who treated mental ailments and who testified to the mental condition of people who were involved in legal matters. © ALL rights are reserved.

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To kill or to murder another person..

One thing they conceal in the heart, they disclose another with the mouth.

Another version is, "No use trying to keep a secret." A warning that when more than one person knows something, it is no longer a secret because there is usually someone who will talk about it.

Translation: "Desire persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse."

From Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B.C. - c. A.D. 17).

The incapability of something being repudiated or conveyed to another person; not subject to forfeiture: The deprivation of freedom is an infraction and breach of the inalienability of human rights.