Search results for Early Modern Period

De gustibus non est disputandum.

Popular culture (Latin aphorism)

Divide et impera.

Commonly attributed to Julius Caesar or Philip II of Macedon, but no specific author is definitively known

Errare humanum est.

St. Augustine

Ex nihilo nihil.

Parmenides, Lucretius

Fama volat.

Virgil

Gloria in excelsis Deo.

Christian liturgical tradition

Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.

Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)

In medias res.

Horace

In vino veritas.

Pliny the Elder

Labor omnia vincit.

Virgil