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"Hell, I'll kill a man in a fair fight... or if I think he's gonna start a fair fight, or if he bothers me, or if there's a woman, or if I'm gettin' paid - mostly only when I'm gettin' paid." - Jayne, Firefly

"I am like a being thrown from another planet on this dark terrestrial ball, an alien, a pilgrim among its possessors." - Thomas Carlyle

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  • “Amor vincit omnia.” Love conquers all things.
  • "Labor omnia vincit." Work conquers all things.
  • "Déxate llevar pol neñu que fuisti." Asturian proverb; Trans. "Let yourself be guided by the child you were."
  • "No pain, no gain."
  • "A la naturaleza dánse-y ordes solo cuando se-y obedez." Asturian proverb; trans. "Nature is commanded by obeying her."
  • "Truth lies in the paradox."
  • "He who guards his lips guards his soul" Proverbs 13:3
  • "Expect the worst, hope for the best."
  • "If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies you willnot find another." Sagan
  • "Verite soyez magarde." Truth be my protection.
  • "Debemos lluchar pola paz con instrumentos de paz." Asturian proverb; Trans. "We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means."
  • "Fiat tustiti et pereat mundus." Let justice be done, though the world perish.
  • “Alea iacta est.” The die is cast!
  • "Nanos gigantum humeris insidentes." Dwarves standing on the shoulders of giants.
  • “Venus favors the bold.”
  • “Claude os, aperi oculos!” Shut your mouth, open your eyes!
  • “Deserta faciunt et pacem appellant.” They create desolation and call it peace.
  • “Doscendo discimus.” We learn by teaching.
  • “Dura necessitas.” Necessity is harsh.
  • “Ad astra per aspera.” To the stars through thorns.
  • “Faber est suæ quisque fortunæ.” Each is the smith of his own fortune.
  • “Memento audere semper.” Remember to always dare.
  • “Montani Semper Libiri.” Mountaineers are always free.
  • “Nomina stultorum scribuntur ubique locorum.” Fools have a habit of writing their names everywhere.
  • “Non quia difficilia sunt non audemus, sed quia non audemus, difficilia sunt.” It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, but because we do not dare things are difficult.
  • “Nosce te ipsum!” Know thyself.
  • “Semper fidelis.” Always faithful.
  • "Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc." We gladly feast on those who would subdue us.
  • “Nunc aut numquam.” Now or never.
  • "Ubi bene, ibi patria." Where one feels good, there is one's country.
  • "Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas." Vanity of vanities and everything is vanity.
  • “Post tenebras lux.” After the darkness, light.
  • “Pulvis et umbra sumus.” We are dust and shadow.
  • “Qui audet vincit.” Who dares wins.
  • “Quo vadis?” Where are you going?
  • “Scio mi nihil scire.” I know that I know nothing.
  • “Sol lucet omnibus.” The sun shines for everyone.
  • “Vive Ut Vitas.” Live, so that you may live.
  • "Mors Certa, Vita Incerta." Death is certain, life is not.
  • “Arte es Vida.” Art is life.
  • “Vida es Arte.” Life is art.
  • "Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo." I was not, I was, I am not, I don't care.
  • "Non nobis solum nati sumus." We are not born for ourselves alone.
  • “Forsan et hæc olim meminisse iuvabit “ Perhaps even this will one day be pleasant to look back on.
  • “Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.” Anything said in Latin sounds profound.
  • “This above all things: to thine own self be true.”
  • “Beware the man of one book.”
  • “Measure twice, cut once.”
  • “If you meet Buddha on the road, kill him.” ~Buddhist proverb
nov 8 2008 ∞
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