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  2. Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus - Wikipedia

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    Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus is a Latin phrase, meaning "Let justice be done, and the world perish". [ 1 ] This sentence was the motto of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (1556–1564), [ 2 ] who used it as his slogan, and it became an important rule to control the nation. [ 3 ]

  3. Art for art's sake - Wikipedia

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    One of the slogans of the Futurists was "Fiat arspereat mundus" ('Let art be created, though the world perish'). Provocatively, Benjamin concludes that as long as fascism expects war "to supply the artistic gratification of a sense of perception that has been changed by technology," then this is the "consummation," the realization, of " L ...

  4. List of Latin phrases (F) - Wikipedia

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    fiat justitia ruat caelum: let justice be done, even if the sky should fall: attributed to Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus: fiat lux: let there be light: from the Genesis, "dixitque Deus fiat lux et facta est lux" ("and God said: 'Let there be light', and there was light."); frequently used as the motto of schools. fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum

  5. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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    ars celare artem: art [is] to conceal art: An aesthetic ideal that good art should appear natural rather than contrived. Of medieval origin, but often incorrectly attributed to Ovid. [13] ars gratia artis: art for the sake of art: Translated into Latin from Baudelaire's L'art pour l'art. Motto of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. While symmetrical for the ...

  6. Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (consul 58 BC) - Wikipedia

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    The maxim fiat justitia ruat caelum ("let justice be done, though the heavens fall"), used by Lord Mansfield in Somerset's Case and in reversing the outlawry of John Wilkes, and in the alternate form fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus by Ferdinand of Habsburg, is sometimes attributed to Piso Caesoninus (more often to Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso), but ...

  7. Fiat justitia, pereat mundus - Wikipedia

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  8. Category:Latin mottos - Wikipedia

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    Ars gratia artis; Audemus jura nostra defendere; ... Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus; Fiat justitia ruat caelum; Fiat lux; Florebo quocumque ferar;

  9. List of Latin phrases (A) - Wikipedia

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    ars celare artem: art [is] to conceal art: An aesthetic ideal that good art should appear natural rather than contrived. Of medieval origin, but often incorrectly attributed to Ovid. [14] ars gratia artis: art for the sake of art: Translated into Latin from Baudelaire's L'art pour l'art. Motto of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. While symmetrical for the ...