Latin quotes about decisions8/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Translation: Authority, not truth, makes law.Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius ( 9 December 2003).Emperor Vespasian to his son Titus, when the latter, complaining about the former's urine tax, acknowledged a coin collected had no odor.Thomas Fuller, Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)."'Tis better for thee to be wise and not seem so, than to seem wise and not be so: Yet Men, for the most Part, desire and endeavor the contrary.".English equivalent: Better fed than taught.English equivalent: Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs (Abbreviated ed.). The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs. "Somebody who has a very wide range of abilities or skills usually does not excel at any of them.".English equivalent: Jack of all trades, master of none Jack of all trades begs bread on Sundays.Translation: Someone in all, is nothing in one.Aliquis in omnibus est nullus in singulis.English equivalent: Even Homer sometimes nods.Sometimes attributed to Cardinal Richelieu.Axel Oxenstierna (1583 – 1654), 1648 letter to son, who was involved in negotiating the Peace of Westphalia.Translation: Don't you know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?.An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur? (alternatively: regatur orbis). ![]() (see also quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi)
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