Omne Quotes
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Omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.
Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom. |
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Omne tulit punctum, qui miscuit utile dulci. The man who has mixed profit with pleasure wins everyone's approval.
— Ars Poetica, l.343.
Omne adeo genus in terris hominumque ferarumque, Et genus aequoreum, pecudes, pictaeque volucres, In furias ignemque ruunt. Amor omnibus idem.
virgil—
The secret joys of sweet coition find.
Not only man's imperial race, but they
That wing the liquid air, or swim the sea,
Or haunt the desert, rush into the flame:
For love is lord of all, and is in all the same.Book III, lines 242–244 (translated by John Dryden).Cf. J. B. Rose's translation:
"Ay, all that breathe the breath of life yprove
Alike, the unresisted fire of love:
Man, beast, the aqueous tribe, the lowing herds,
And denizens of air, the painted birds."
Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.
ausonius— Eclogae 2, line 10; translation from Hugh Gerard Evelyn White Ausonius ([1919-21] 1951) vol. 1, p. 165.
Aequa lege Necessitas Sortitur insignes et imos; Omne capax movet urna nomen.
horace— Death takes the mean man with the proud;
The fatal urn has room for all.Book III, ode i, line 14 (translated by John Conington).
Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci, lectorem delectando pariterque monendo .
horace— He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.Line 343.
Omne possibile exigit existere.
gottfried leibniz— Everything that is possible demands to exist.De veritatibus primis (1686)
Omne malum nascens facile opprimitur; inveteratum fit pleurumque robustius.
— Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.
— Cicero, Philippicæ, V. 11
Omne aevum curae; cunctis sua displicet aetas.
— Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.
— Eclogae 2, line 10; translation from Hugh Gerard Evelyn White Ausonius ([1919-21] 1951) vol. 1, p. 165.
Aequa lege Necessitas Sortitur insignes et imos; Omne capax movet urna nomen.
— Death takes the mean man with the proud;
The fatal urn has room for all.
— Book III, ode i, line 14 (translated by John Conington).
Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci, lectorem delectando pariterque monendo .
— He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.
— Line 343.
Omne adeo genus in terris hominumque ferarumque, Et genus aequoreum, pecudes, pictaeque volucres, In furias ignemque ruunt. Amor omnibus idem.
— Cf. J. B. Rose's translation:
"Ay, all that breathe the breath of life yprove
Alike, the unresisted fire of love:
Man, beast, the aqueous tribe, the lowing herds,
And denizens of air, the painted birds."
Ergo vivida vis pervicet et extra processit longe flamentia moenia mundi atque Omne immensum peragravit mente animoque.
lucretius— The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in thought and mind.Book I, line 72.
Quando aliquid prohibetur, prohibetur et Omne per quod devenitur ad illud.
— Translation: When anything is forbidden, everything which leads to the same result is also forbidden.
— Author unknown; reported by Junius as a Latin legal maxim in The letters of Junius: Stat Nominis Umbra (1801), p. 444. Translation reported in Sir William Gurney Benham, A Book of Quotations, Proverbs and Household Words (1907), p. 647.
Furtum ingeniosus ad Omne, Qui facere assueret, patriæ non degener artis, Candida de nigris, et de candentibus atra.
— Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look white, and white look black.
— Ovid, Metamorphoses, XI, 313.
Deficit Omne quod nascitur.
— Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
— Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria, V. 10.
Triste est Omne animale post coitum, praeter mulierem gallumque
— Eevery animal is sad after coitus except the human female and the rooster
— Galen (30-200 A.D.), in: Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality, (1973), p. 19
Ergo vivida vis pervicet et extra processit longe flamentia moenia mundi atque Omne immensum peragravit mente animoque.
— Book I, line 72.
Non ego omnino lucrum Omne esse utile homini existimo. Scio ego, multos jam lucrum luculentos homines reddidit. Est etiam, ubi profecto damnum praestet facere, quam lucrum.
— Nor do I hold that every kind of gain is always serviceable. Gain, I know, has render’d many great. But there are times when loss should be preferr’d to gain. (translator Thornton)
— Captivi, Act II, scene 2, line 75.
— Variant translation: There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. (translation by Henry Thomas Riley)
Quod tuum’st, meum’st; Omne meum est autem tuum .
— For what is yours is mine, and mine is yours.
— Trinummus, Act II, sc. 2, line 47.
Tanto brevius Omne, quanto felicius tempus. The happier the time, the quicker it passes.
pliny the younger— Pliny the Younger, Epistles, VII. 14.
