A Quote by Ovid
What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire.
[Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.]
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Everything unknown is magnified.
[Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive.
[Lat., Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit.]
The cause is hidden, but the result is known.
[Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]
What woman says to fond lover should be written on air or the swift water.
[Lat., Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti,
In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.]
It's fear of the unknown. The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that-it's all illusion. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing. Everything is unknown-then you're ahead of the game. That's what it is. Right?
To freemen, threats are impotent.
[Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long.
[Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]
There is nothing which God cannot do.
[Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.]
Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown - ignotum per ignotius - that is by the name of God.
There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find
A woman's at the bottom.
[Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]
What, if as said, man is a bubble.
[Lat., Quod, ut dictur, si est homo bulla, eo magis senex.]
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
[Lat., Hei mihi! quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis.]
No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.
[Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]
Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
[Lat., E malis multis, malum, quod minimum est, id minimum est malum.]
The unknown winner of an unknown city, located in an unknown country, is Man.
Several large, artificial constructions are approaching us, ZORAC announced after a short pause. The designs are not familiar, but they are obviously the products of intelligence. Implications: we have been intercepted deliberately by a means unknown, for a purpose unknown, and transferred to a place unknown by a form of intelligence unknown. Apart from the unknowns, everything is obvious.
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