A Quote by James G. Frazer

If the test of truth lay in a show of hands or a counting of heads, the system of magic might appeal, with far more reason than the Catholic Church, to the proud motto, 'Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus' [always, everywhere, and by all], as the sure and certain credential of its own infallibility.

James G. Frazer

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James G. Frazer
Scottish - Scientist
January 1, 1854 - May 7, 1941

He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away. [Lat., Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.]

Horace

What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive. [Lat., Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit.]

Ovid

Know not what you know, and see not what you see. [Lat., Etiam illud quod scies nesciveris; Ne videris quod videris.]

Plautus

Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Dilige et quod vis fac. (Love and then what you will, do.)

Saint Augustine

Hoc solum deliqui, quod uiuo. My only fault is that I am alive.

Walter Map

Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt

Julius Caesar

It is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes

Publilius Syrus

There is nothing which God cannot do. [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Leve fit quod bene fertur onus. The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

Juvenal

What, if as said, man is a bubble. [Lat., Quod, ut dictur, si est homo bulla, eo magis senex.]

Marcus Terentius Varro

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. [Lat., Hei mihi! quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis.]

Ovid

No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The illustration which solves one difficulty by raising another, settles nothing. [Lat., Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.]

Horace

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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