con., or unanimously, or with unanimous consent.įrom Goethe's autobiography From my Life: Poetry and Truth, p. Used especially in committees, where a matter may be passed nem.
Sallust, The Conspiracy of Catiline, 58:19 It is necessary to believe that there is only one absolute power
Necesse est credere unam tantum esse potentiam absolutam Seneca the Younger, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, 7:7 You must either imitate or loathe the world Without permission, without secrecy, without interruptionĪlternate rendition of Caedite eos. Motto of the Dutch 11th Air Manoeuvre Brigade and the city of Gdańsk, Poland Motto of many Presbyterian churches throughout the world. Refers to the Burning Bush of Exodus 3:2. Motto for Bishop Cotton Boys' School and the Bishop Cotton Girls' School, both located in Bangalore, India. "When the miraculous power of God is necessary, let it be resorted to: when it is not necessary, let the ordinary means be used." From Horace's Ars Poetica as a caution against deus ex machina.ĭo not get distracted. That a god not intervene, unless a knot show up that be worthy of such an untangler Nec deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus (inciderit) Nec = not aspera = rough ones/things terrent = they terrify / do terrify / are terrifying. Less literally "Difficulties be damned." Motto for 27th Infantry Regiment (United States) and the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment. They are not terrified of the rough things 1638) and invoked by Ralph Waldo Emerson at the opening of his essay Self-Reliance (1841) Line from the Roman satirist Persius inscribed on the boulder to the right of Sir John Suckling in the painting of the aforementioned subject by Sir Anthony van Dyck (ca. Never give dangerous tools to someone who is untrained to use them or too immature to understand the damage they can do.Ī shoemaker should not judge beyond the shoe
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Non plus ultra is the motto of the Spanish exclave Melilla. The Boston Musical Instrument Company engraved ne plus ultra on its instruments from 1869 to 1928 to signify that none were better. Holy Roman Emperor Charles V's heraldic emblem reversed this idea, using a depiction of this phrase inscribed on the Pillars – as plus ultra, without the negation. The Pillars of Hercules, for example, were literally the nec plus ultra of the ancient Mediterranean world. A descriptive phrase meaning the best or most extreme example of something. Translated from Plutarch's Greek "πλεῖν ἀνάγκη, ζῆν οὐκ ἀνάγκη".Īlso nec plus ultra or non plus ultra. To sail is necessary to live is not necessaryĪttributed by Plutarch to Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, who, during a severe storm, commanded sailors to bring food from Africa to Rome.
Navigare necesse est, vivere non est necesse – Horace, Epistles, Book I, epistle X, line 24. You must take the basic nature of something into account. You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret. Can be found in his Unpublished Scientific Papers of Isaac Newton: A selection from the Portsmouth Collection in the University Library, Cambridge, 1978 edition īased on Servius' commentary on Virgil's Georgics (3:96): "turpis non est quia per naturam venit." Sir Isaac Newton's famous quote, defining foundation of all modern sciences. Nature is exceedingly simple and harmonious with itself Shortened form of " sicut natura nil facit per saltum ita nec lex" (just as nature does nothing by a leap, so neither does the law), referring to both nature and the legal system moving gradually.Ī famous aphorism of Carl Linnaeus stating that all organisms bear relationships on all sides, their forms changing gradually from one species to the next. Nature does not make a leap, thus neither does the law Derived by Arthur Schopenhauer from an earlier source. That is, the natural world is not sentimental or compassionate. The name of the zoo in the centre of Amsterdam short: "Artis".Ĭf. Pseudo-explanation for why a liquid will climb up a tube to fill a vacuum, often given before the discovery of atmospheric pressure. Refers to a situation where an unborn child is deemed to be entitled to certain inheritance rights. The unborn is deemed to have been born to the extent that his own inheritance is concerned
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Nasciturus pro iam nato habetur, quotiens de commodis eius agitur When we are born we die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning Nascentes morimur finisque ab origine pendet Also commonly known by the letters of Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants". Dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giantsįirst recorded by John of Salisbury in the twelfth century and attributed to Bernard of Chartres.
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