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love is the same for all: From Virgil, Georgics III amor patriae: love of the fatherland: i.e., "love of the nation;" patriotism: amor vincit omnia: love conquers all: Originally from Virgil, Eclogues X, 69: omnia vincit amor: et nos cedamus amori ("love conquers all: let us too surrender to love").
This is a list of Wikipedia articles of Latin phrases and their translation into English. To view all phrases on a single, lengthy document, see: List of Latin phrases (full) The list is also divided alphabetically into twenty pages:
the Way, the Truth, [and] the Life: Words of Jesus Christ in John 14:6; motto of many institutions viam sapientiae monstrabo tibi: I will show you the way of wisdom: Motto of DePaul University: vice: in place of: The word refers to one who acts in the place of another.
Hard work conquers all. Popular as a motto; derived from a phrase in Virgil's Eclogue (X.69: omnia vincit Amor – "Love conquers all"); a similar phrase also occurs in his Georgics I.145. laborare pugnare parati sumus: To work, (or) to fight; we are ready: Motto of the California Maritime Academy: labore et honore: By labour and honour ...
know thyself: A reference to the Greek γνῶθι σεαυτόν (gnothi seauton), inscribed on the pronaos of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, according to the Greek periegetic writer Pausanias (10.24.1). Rendered also with nosce te ipsum, temet nosce ("thine own self know") appears in The Matrix translated as "know thyself". tempora heroica ...
From the Latin translation of the Vulgate Bible of Psalm 130, of which it is a traditional title in Roman Catholic liturgy. de re: about/regarding the matter: In logic, de dicto statements regarding the truth of a proposition are distinguished from de re statements regarding the properties of a thing itself. decessit sine prole: died without issue
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A motto of the Protestant Reformation and one of the five solas, referring to the idea that God is the creator of all good things and deserves all the praise for them. Johann Sebastian Bach often signed his manuscripts with the abbreviation S.D.G. to invoke this phrase, as well as with AMDG (ad maiorem Dei gloriam).