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Latin Phrases and Quotes
Starting with phrase number 2672
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- Nulla potestas nisi a Deo - All power comes through God (Augustine, who tried to legitimize the power of the church through the divinity of God, explaining that both the kings and the church had their powers given by God)
- Nulla regula sine exceptione - No rule without exception
- Nulli expugnabilis hosti - Conquered by no enemy (Motto of Gibraltar)
- Nulli se dicit mulier mea nubere malle quam mihi, non si se Iuppiter ipse petat.Dicit: sed mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, in vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua - My lady says she prefers to marry no one, no one. More than me, even if Jove himself pursued. She says so. But what a lady says to her suitor in passion. Should be written on wind and the waves of the sea. (Gaius Valerius Catulo)
- Nulli secundus - Second to none (Motto of the Second Squadron of Air Support in the Spanish Air Force)
- Nullius addictus iurare in verba magistri - No master can make me swear blind bovedience (Horace - Epistulae I 1, 14)
- Nullius in verba - Words in the wind (Horace)
- Nullo enim modo sunt onerosi labores amantium - In no way work is too hard for labor of love
- Nullo metro compositum est - The composition has no metrics (No rhyme)
- Nullum crimen nulla poena sine previa lege - No crime, no punishment without a previous law (Legal term - Roman Law)
- Nullum est iam dictum quod non dictum sit prius - Nothing has been said, that has not been said before (Terence)
- Nullum est sine nomine saxum - There is no boulder with no name
- Nullum saeculum magnis ingeniis clausum est - No generation is closed to great talents ( (Seneca)
- Nullum violentum perpetuum - No violence is perpetual
- Nullun tributum sine legis - There is no tax, without law (Legal term - Roman Law -equivalent to “No taxation without representation”)
- Nullus agenti dies longus est - No day is long for the busy (Seneca)
- Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that there is no benefit at some point (Pliny the Younger, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus)
- Nullus est tibi quem roges mutuum argentum - You have no one to borrow money from (Plautus - Pseudolus Comoediae IX -)
- Nullus germanus navigat solus - No German pees alone (In German schifen means both to navigate and to piss.)
- Nullus videtur dolo facere, qui suo iure utitur - There is no harm, when someone exercises his right (Legal term drawn from various sources, including the jurist Gaius (s.II) 50,17,55 Digest)
- Num audes? - Do you dare
- Num barbarorum Romulus rex fuit? - Was not Romulus the king of the barbarians? (Cicero)
- Num negare audes? quid taces? Convincam, si negas - Why are you silent? I will prove it if you do deny it; (Cicero - First Catiline)
- Numen lumen - God is light (Motto of the university of Wisconsin - Thank you: Agnes Wisley)
- Numero pondere & mensura Deus omnia condidit - God created things by number, size and weight (Sir Isaac Newton)
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