Famous Sayings and Their Authors: A Collection of Historical Sayings in English, French, German, Greek, Italian, and Latin |
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... οὐκ , & c . Cf. " Navigare necesse est , vivere non est necesse . ( It is necessary to sail ; it is not necessary to live . ) — Inscription on a house , founded in 1525 in Bremen for invalided sailors and for the support of their widows ...
... οὐκ , & c . Cf. " Navigare necesse est , vivere non est necesse . ( It is necessary to sail ; it is not necessary to live . ) — Inscription on a house , founded in 1525 in Bremen for invalided sailors and for the support of their widows ...
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... οὐκ ἄλλο τι ἢ τὸ τοῦ κρείττονος ξυμφέρον . ( “ I proclaim that might is right , justice the interest of the stronger . Jowett ) . PLATO , Republic , I. , 12 ( Thrasymachus . ) La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure . ( The ...
... οὐκ ἄλλο τι ἢ τὸ τοῦ κρείττονος ξυμφέρον . ( “ I proclaim that might is right , justice the interest of the stronger . Jowett ) . PLATO , Republic , I. , 12 ( Thrasymachus . ) La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure . ( The ...
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... οὐκ ἂν ἐγὼ παρέλαβον . ( Very true ; for if you had not lost the city , I could never have recaptured it ) . FABIUS MAXIMUS ( 275-202 B.C. ) -to Marcus Livius , who had been in command of Tarentum when Hannibal obtained possession of it ...
... οὐκ ἂν ἐγὼ παρέλαβον . ( Very true ; for if you had not lost the city , I could never have recaptured it ) . FABIUS MAXIMUS ( 275-202 B.C. ) -to Marcus Livius , who had been in command of Tarentum when Hannibal obtained possession of it ...
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... οὐκ ἐκπορεύεται . ( Through this no words go out . ) At the Spartan public dinners it was the custom for the oldest person present , pointing to the door , to say the above words to each man on entering . Plutarch , Lives : Lycurgus ...
... οὐκ ἐκπορεύεται . ( Through this no words go out . ) At the Spartan public dinners it was the custom for the oldest person present , pointing to the door , to say the above words to each man on entering . Plutarch , Lives : Lycurgus ...
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... οὐκ ἀγαπᾷς ὅτι μετὰ Φωκίωνος άπо @ νýσкELS ; ( Are you not con- tent , then , to die in Phocion's company ? ) PHOCION ( C. 400-317 B.C. ) to Thodippus , who was in prison and bewailing his fate , when he saw the hemlock being prepared ...
... οὐκ ἀγαπᾷς ὅτι μετὰ Φωκίωνος άπо @ νýσкELS ; ( Are you not con- tent , then , to die in Phocion's company ? ) PHOCION ( C. 400-317 B.C. ) to Thodippus , who was in prison and bewailing his fate , when he saw the hemlock being prepared ...
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ABBÉ alluding asked Attributed battle BENJAMIN DISRAELI Earl bien Biog c'est Cæsar CARDINAL Chamber of Deputies Charles COMTE death Dict Dieu Diogenes Laertius DUKE OF WELLINGTON Dying words Earl of Beaconsfield EDMUND BURKE Emperor enemy Engl England fait faut femme Français France French grand HENRY Hist homme honour House of Commons Hume j'ai jamais JOHN June king Last words Le Moniteur universel letter liberty Lives Lord LOUIS XIV Madam Mémoires MIRABEAU Molière Moniteur mort mourir n'est NAPOLEON nation never Paris Parliament Phocion phrase Plutarch PRESIDENT PRINCE BISMARCK Prussian qu'il qu'on Queen quoted referring Reichstag remark reply rien saying Sire soldiers speech Suetonius thou tion tout Voltaire W. E. GLADSTONE WELLINGTON 1769 WILLIAM γὰρ δὲ καὶ μὲν μὴ οὐ οὐκ τὴν τὸ Τὸν τοὺς