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We are deceived by the appearance of right.

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ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

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When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

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There is a middle ground in things.

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Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

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Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

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What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down.

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The words can not return.

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Those who cross the sea, change sky, but not soul.

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I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

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Jorge Luis Borges was lamenting a variety of Orientalism that was used to measure the alleged authenticity of Argentine and Latin American writers in the midcentury. The Argentine literary tradition was believed by many, including many Argentines, to be concerned with a national imaginary in which the gauchos and the pampas and the tango were fundamental tropes. Borges, in part to legitimize his own Europhilia, correctly pointed out that expecting writers to engage with these romantic nationalist tropes was arbitrary and limiting, a genre that was demonstrative of its own artificiality.

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He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.

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Love, and a cough, are not concealed.

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No master can make me swear blind obedience.

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In Hindu philosophy the whole creation is regarded as the Vishnu Lila, the play of Vishnu. Lila means dance or play. Also in Hindu philosophy, they call the world illusion; and in Latin the root of the word illusion is ludere, to play.

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In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

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One Sallow does not make Summer.

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Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.

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They condemn what they do not understand.

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Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

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