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Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the hours that are serene.) is the motto of a sundial near Venice. There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled.
william hazlitt— "On a Sun-Dial" (New Monthly Magazine, October 1827)
Officium officialium, quorum te numero aggregasti, hodie est, jura confundere, suscitare lites, transactiones rescindere, innectere dilationes, suprimere veritatem, fovere mendacium, quaestum sequi, aeqitatem vendere, inhiare exactionibus, versutias concinnare.
peter of blois— The role of officials today is to upset the laws, to stir up lawsuits, to annul agreements, to devise delays, to suppress the truth, to encourage falsehood, to follow profit, to sell justice, to attend closely to exacting money, to practise cunning.
— Letter 25, to the Judicial Vicar of the Bishop of Chartres, in J. A. Giles (ed.) Petri blesensis bathoniensis archidiaconi opera omnia (Oxonii: J. H. Parker, 1846-7) vol. 1, p. 91; translation from Walter Bower and D. E. R. Watt (eds.) Scotichronicon (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987) vol. 7, p. 61.
Losing a game is not equivalent to death. Failing to be numero uno does not make me a lesser human being.
— James Michener, The Olympics, Sports and Religion—Is There a Conflict?, Awake! magazine, August 8, 1984.
Exigui numero, sed bello vivida virtus.
virgil— Few in number, but ardent for war.Line 754.Variant translations:Small in number, but of tried and war-proof valour.Few in number, yet theirs is a valour ardent for war.In number inconsiderable, but of animated valour for war.
Losing a game is not equivalent to death. Failing to be numero uno does not make me a lesser human being.
— James Michener, The Olympics, Sports and Religion—Is There a Conflict?, Awake! magazine, August 8, 1984.
"Horas non numero nisi serenas." There stands in the garden of old St. Mark A sun dial quaint and gray. It takes no heed of the hours which in dark Pass o'er it day by day. It has stood for ages amid the flowers In that land of sky and song. "I number none but the cloudless hours," Its motto the live day long.
— William C. Doane, Of a Sun Dial in Venice.
Horas non numero nisi serenas.
Maurice Maeterlinck— I count only the hours that are serene.
— Maurice Maeterlinck, Measure of the Hours, mentioned as found by Hazlitt on a Sun Dial near Venice.
Exigui numero, sed bello vivida virtus.
— Of small number, but their valour quick for war.
— Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), V. 754.
Exigui numero, sed bello vivida virtus.
— Small in number, but of tried and war-proof valour.
— Few in number, yet theirs is a valour ardent for war.
— In number inconsiderable, but of animated valour for war.
numero deus impare gaudet.
virgil— God delights in an odd number.Book VIII, line 75.Cf. Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act V, scene i, line 2:
"Good luck lies in odd numbers ... there is divinity in odd numbers."
numero deus impare gaudet.
— Cf. Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act V, scene i, line 2:
"Good luck lies in odd numbers ... there is divinity in odd numbers."
