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Omnia mors poscit. Lex est, non poena, perire."
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Nec species sua cuique manet, rerumque novatrixEx aliis alias reddit natura figuras.Nec perit in toto quidquam, mihi credite, mundo,Sed variat faciemque novat: nascique vocaturIncipere esse aliud, quàm quod fuit antè; moriqueDesinere illud idem; quum sint huc forsitan illa,Haec translata illuc; summâ tamen omnia constant.
ovid— No species remains constant: that great renovator of matterNature, endlessly fashions new forms from old: there’s nothingin the whole universe that perishes, believe me; ratherit renews and varies its substance. What we describe as birthis no more than incipient change from a prior state, while dyingis merely to quit it. Though the parts may be transportedhither and thither, the sum of all matter is constant.
— XV, 252-8 (translated by Peter Green).
esterni sumus, & vestra omnia implevimus, Vrbes, Insulas, Castella, Municipia, Conciliabula, Castra ipsa, Tribus, Decurias, palatium, Senatum, Forum, sola vobis relinquimus Templa.
tertullian— We are but of yesterday, and yet we have filled all the places that belong to you — cities, islands, forts, towns, exchanges; the military camps themselves, tribes, town councils, the palace, the senate, the market-place; we have left you nothing but your temples.Tertullian's Plea For Allegiance, A.2
Accessi confinium mortis et calcato Proserpinae limine per omnia vectus elementa remeavi, nocte media vidi solem candido coruscantem lumine, deos inferos et deos superos accessi coram et adoravi de proximo.
— I approached the confines of death, and having trod on the threshold of Proserpine, I returned therefrom, being borne through all the elements. At midnight I saw the sun shining with its brilliant light; and I approached the presence of the Gods beneath, and the Gods of heaven, and stood near, and worshipped them.
— Bk. 11, ch. 23; pp. 239-40.
— Describing initiation into the mysteries of Isis.
omnia post obitum fingit majora vetustas: Majus ab exsequiis nomen in ora venit.
sextus propertius— Time magnifies everything after death; a man's fame is increased as it passes from mouth to mouth after his burial.
— Sextus Propertius, Elegiæ, III. 1. 23.
Quia me vestigia terrent omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum.
— I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.
— Horace, Epistles, I. 1. 74.
Labor omnia vicit improbus et duris urgens in rebus egestas. Toil conquered the world, unrelenting toil, and want that pinches when life is hard.
— Georgics,1.145-6 (translated by H Rushton Fairclough).
Aristoteles hominis animum comparavit tabulae rasae, cui nihil inscriptum sit, inscribi tamen omnia possint. ... Hoc interest, quod in tabula lineas ducere non licet, nisi quousque margo permittat: in mente usque et usque scribendo, et sculpendo, terminum nusquam invenies quia (ut ante monitum) interminabilis est.
— Aristotle compared the mind of man to a blank tablet on which nothing was written, but on which all things could be engraved. ... There is, however, this difference, that on the tablet the writing is limited by space, while in the case of the mind, you may continually go on writing and engraving without finding any boundary, because, as has already been shown, the mind is without limit.
— The Great Didactic (Didactica Magna) (Amsterdam, 1657) [written 1627–38], as translated by M. W. Keatinge (1896).
— Cf. Aristotle, De anima, III, 4, 430a: "?' ?· ?."
Cum ergo audimus, Deum omnia facere, nil aliud debemus intelligere, quam Deum in omnibus esse, hoc est, essentiam omnium subsistere.
johannes scotus eriugena— When we are told that God is the maker of all things, we are simply to understand that God is in all things – that He is the substantial essence of all things.
— De Divisione Naturae, Bk. 1, ch. 72; translation from Hugh Fraser Stewart Boethius: An Essay (London: William Blackwood, 1891) p. 255.
Non omnia possumus omnes.
virgil— We cannot all do everything.Book VIII, line 63.Variant translations:We cannot all of us do everything.We are not all able to accomplish the same things.
Labor omnia vicit improbus et duris urgens in rebus egestas.
virgil— Toil conquered the world, unrelenting toil, and want that pinches when life is hard.Book I, lines 145–146 (translated by H. Rushton Fairclough).
Stultorum plena sunt omnia.
cicero— All places are filled with fools.
— Cicero, Epistles, IX. 22.
Et hæc scientia certificat omnia naturalia et artificialia in particulari et in propria disciplina, per experientiam perfectam; non per argumenta, ut scientiæ pure speculativae, nec per debiles et imperfecta experientias ut scientiae operativæ. Et ideo hæc est domina omnium scientiarum præcedentium, et finis totius speculationis.
— And this [experimental] science verifies all natural and man-made things in particular, and in their appropriate discipline, by the experimental perfection, not by arguments of the still purely speculative sciences, nor through the weak, and imperfect experiences of practical knowledge. And therefore, this is the matron of all preceding sciences, and the final end of all speculation.
— Ch 13 ed. J. S. Brewer Opera quadam hactenus inedita (1859) p.46
Sed Caesar in omnia praeceps, nil actum credens, cum quid superesset agendum.
— But Caesar, headlong in all his designs,
thought nothing done while anything remained to do.
— Book II, line 656.
Certis * * * legibus omnia parent.
— All things obey fixed laws.
— I, 479.
Materiae ne quaere modum; sed perspice vires Quas ratio, non pondus habet; ratio omnia vincit.
— Seek not the measure of matter; fix your gaze
Upon the power of reason, not of bulk;
For reason 'tis that all things overcomes.
— IV, 924, as reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of Quotations (1897), p. 130.
Nec species sua cuique manet, rerumque novatrix Ex aliis alias reddit natura figuras. Nec perit in toto quidquam, mihi credite, mundo, Sed variat faciemque novat: nascique vocatur Incipere esse aliud, quàm quod fuit antè; morique Desinere illud idem; quum sint huc forsitan illa, Haec translata illuc; summâ tamen omnia constant.
— No species remains constant: that great renovator of matter
Nature, endlessly fashions new forms from old: there’s nothing
in the whole universe that perishes, believe me; rather
it renews and varies its substance. What we describe as birth
is no more than incipient change from a prior state, while dying
is merely to quit it. Though the parts may be transported
hither and thither, the sum of all matter is constant.
— XV, 252-8 (translated by Peter Green).
Non omnia possumus omnes.
— We cannot all of us do everything.
— We are not all able to accomplish the same things.
Labor omnia vicit improbus et duris urgens in rebus egestas.
— Toil conquered the world, unrelenting toil, and want that pinches when life is hard.
— Book I, lines 145–146.
Me vero primum dulces ante omnia Musae, Quarum sacra fero ingenti percussus amore, Accipiant caelique vias et sidera monstrent, Defectus solis varios lunaeque labores; Unde tremor terris, qua vi maria alta tumescant Obicibus ruptis rursusque in se ipsa residant. Quid tantum Oceano properent se tingere soles Hiberni, vel quae tardis mora noctibus obstet.
— And ye sister Muses whom I love
With sacred fervour all the world above,
O take me for your seer: give me to know
The ways of Heaven above and Earth below,
The paths sidereal, and the moon's new birth,
The sun's eclipses, and the throes of Earth,
And by what force it is the rising tide
O'erflows the marsh, or how its waves subside;
Why Sol in winter hurries to his rest,
And by what laws are summer nights comprest.
— Book II, lines 475–482 (translated by J. B. Rose).
omnia mutantur, nihil interit.
ovid— Thus all things are but altered, nothing dies.
— XV, 165 (translated by John Dryden); on the transmigration of souls.
omnia mors poscit. Lex est, non poena, perire."
seneca the elder— All things death claims. 'Tis law, not punishment, to die.
— De qualitate temporis, Epigrams, VII., 7, as reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of Quotations (1897), p. 197
omnia periclitabuntur aliter accipi quam sunt, et amittere quod sunt dum aliter accipiuntur, si aliter quam sunt cognominantur. Fides nominum salus est proprietatum.
tertullian— All things will be in danger of being taken in a sense different from their own proper sense, and, whilst taken in that different sense, of losing their proper one, if they are called by a name which differs from their natural designation. Fidelity in names secures the safe appreciation of properties.De Carne Christi, 13.2
omnia fert aetas, animum quoque .
virgil— Time bears away all things, even our minds.Book IX, line 51.
Et metus ille foras præceps Acheruntis agundus, Funditus humanam qui vitam turbat ab imo, omnia suffuscans mortis nigrore, neque ullam Esse voluptatem liquidam puramque relinquit.
— The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
— Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, III. 37.
Rationi nulla resistunt. Claustra nec immensæ moles, ceduntque recessus: omnia succumbunt, ipsum est penetrabile cœlum.
— No barriers, no masses of matter, however enormous, can withstand the powers of the mind the remotest corners yield to them; all things succumb, the very heaven itself is laid open.
— I, 541.
omnia periclitabuntur aliter accipi quam sunt, et amittere quod sunt dum aliter accipiuntur, si aliter quam sunt cognominantur. Fides nominum salus est proprietatum.
— De Carne Christi, 13.2 (Quotes)
omnia mors aequat .
— Death renders all equal.
— De Raptu Proserpinae Bk. II, line 302.
— Variant: "Death makes all things equal."
omnia fert aetas, animum quoque .
— Time bears away all things, even our minds.
— Virgil, Eclogues (c. c. 42 BC), Book IX, line 51.
Vestigia terrent omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum.
— The footsteps are terrifying, all coming towards you and none going back again.
— Horace, Epigrams, Book I. 1. 74. Quoted Vestigia nulla retrorsum.
