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The prayer Nada te turbe (Let nothing disturb you) is attributed to Teresa, having been found within her breviary: [web 13] Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing make you afraid.
But, according to Valerius Maximus (Facta et dicta memorabilia, Book VIII.7), Archimedes just answered Noli, obsecro, istum disturbare [2] ("Do not, I entreat you, disturb that (sand)"), because he was so engrossed in the circles drawn on the sand in front of him. After that, one of the soldiers killed Archimedes, despite the order of Marcus ...
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The three best known maxims – "Know thyself", "Nothing in excess", and "Give a pledge and trouble is at hand" – were prominently located at the entrance to the temple, and were traditionally said to have been authored by the legendary Seven Sages of Greece, or even by Apollo. In fact, they are more likely to have simply been popular proverbs.
During your most difficult moments, recall Angelou's triumphant declaration in “Still I Rise.” “You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your ...
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nothing dries sooner than a tear: Pseudo-Cicero, Ad Herrenium, 2/31:50 nihil humanum mihi alienum: nothing human is alien to me: Adapted from Terence's Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor), homo sum humani a me nihil alienum puto ("I am a human being; nothing human is strange to me"). Sometimes ending in est.