Ipsa scientia potestas est. = Knowledge itself is power.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nil sine studio. = Nothing without studying

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Veritas vos liberabit. = The truth will set you free.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Adeste fideles. = O come, all ye faithful

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Gloria brevis est, honor longa est.

Glory is fleeting, honor is forever.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scientia, sollertia, servitium

"Knowledge, skills, and service


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

vita non est vivere sed valere vita est. = Life is more than merely staying alive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Videbat esse notitia bona id temporis.

It seemed to be a good idea at the time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Salus populi suprema lex esto. 

Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

mens sana in corpore sano.                                                               

A sound mind in a sound body

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Seneca [De vita beata, I, 4]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intellectus humanus luminis sicci non est; sed recipit infusionem a voluntate et affectibus...

[[t]he human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections...]
(Novum Organum, I, p. 167-168; trans., IV, p. 57)

 

 

 

 

»Dico ego, tu dicis, sed denique dixit et ille:
dictaque post toties, nil nisi dicta vides.«

It is all what I say, what you say, and, finally, what he says; and the whole of it is nothing but a series of assertions.

 

 

 

quam temere in nosmet legem sancimus iniquam.

How thoughtless it is to sanction a law unjust to himself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

In dubio pro libertate

If in doubt favour liberty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Homo homini lupus est  --  Man is a wolf to his fellow-man.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nec scire fas est omnia  - It is impossible to know all things. (Horace)


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sapere aude - Have the courage to think for yourself

Immanuel Kant "What Is Enlightenment?"

 

 

 

 

 

pecunia non olet -  money does not smell

 

 

 

 

 

veritas est in puteo

(Democrit) = The truth lies in the depth


 

 

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