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Latin Phrases and Quotes
Starting with phrase number 1489
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- Fortuna caeca est - Fortune is blind
- Fortuna favet fatuis - Fortune favors fools
- Fortuna meliores sequitur - Fortune follows the better men (Sallus, Historia I, 48)
- Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli - Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none (Martial, Epigrams, XII, 10)
- Fortuna nimium quem fovet, stultum facit - Fortune that favors much, makes a man stupid
- Forum - Public Square (A site of the debate: parliament, courts, councils, etc.)
- Fratellum Scholarum Christianorum - Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (Lasallians - abbreviated as F.S.C)
- Frater, ave atque vale - Hail, brother, farewell (Catullus, Roman Poet 86-103 AD)
- Fraterna caritas est dulcis - Brotherly love is sweet
- Fratres de paupere vita - Brothers of the poor life (Dulcino de Novara, 1250-130)
- Fraus legi - Violatio of a statute (Legal term)
- Fraus omnia corrumpit - Fraud corrupts all (Legal Term - discovery of fraud invalidates all aspects of a judicial decision)
- Frigidus Abbas - Cold Abbot (Pope Benedict XII (1334-1342) motto, according to St. Malachy prophecies - Benedict XII was an abbot in the monastery of Fontfroide, "Cold spring")
- Fronte capillata, post est occasio calva - Behind the front full of hair, the occasion is bald (Caton distichs 26, B, Phaedrus, Fables, 5, 8 - Philosophical term)
- Fronti nulla fides - Do not trust the man's face
- Fructus Jovis Juvabit - The Fruit of Jupiter will Help (Pope Julius II (1503-1513) motto, according to St. Malachy prophecies - His coat of arms had a oak, a tree sacred to Jupiter)
- Frumentum Floccidum - Trifling grain (Pope Marcellus II (1555) motto, according to St. Malachy prophecies - His coat of arms had a ears of wheat and his papacy was very short)
- Frustra fit per plura quod fieri potest per pauciora - It is vain to do with more what can be done with less (William of Ockham, 1280 - 1349)
- Frustra ubi totum desedi diem - I was sitting there in vain all day (Terence - Hecyra V, 3)
- Fruti - - The fruits (Legal term - hence the word "usufruct" use of fruits)
- Fugit irreparabile tempus - Irretrievable time flees
- Fui, dixi de vita mea satis - I existed and did not exist (I said my enough about my life. A brief, subtle, sharp and witty epitaph)
- Fumus boni iuris - Appears good in the eye of the law (Legal term - there is something that allows one to perceive that the demand is valid)
- Functus officio - Having performed his office (Legal Term - Indicates that the person no longer has the power he/she once had when in office)
- Fundamentum divisionis - Basis of division (The basis, or specific difference between classes, of a classification)
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