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A rolling stone gathers no moss
A rolling stone gathers no moss is an old proverb, credited to Publilius Syrus, who in his Sententiae states, People who are always moving, with no roots in one place or another, avoid responsibilities and cares. As such, the proverb is often interpreted as referring to figurative nomads who avoid taking on responsibilities or cultivating or advancing their own knowledge, experience, or culture.
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Adage
An adage (Latin: adagium) is a concise, memorable, and usually philosophical aphorism that communicates an important truth derived from experience, custom, or both, and that many persons consider true and credible because of its longeval tradition, i. e. being handed down generation to generation, or memetic replication.
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Anton Pann
Anton Pann (born Antonie Pantoleon-Petroveanu, and also mentioned as Anton Pantoleon or Petrovici; 1790s—2 November 1854) was an Ottoman-born Wallachian composer, musicologist, and Romanian-language poet, also noted for his activities as a printer, translator, and schoolteacher.
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Aphorism
An aphorism (from Greek ἀφορισμός: aphorismos, denoting "delimitation", "distinction", and "definition") is a concise, terse, laconic, and/or memorable expression of a general truth or principle.
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Between Scylla and Charybdis
Being between Scylla and Charybdis is an idiom deriving from Greek mythology, meaning "having to choose between two evils".
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Bussy D'Ambois
The Tragedy of Bussy D'Ambois (1603–1607) is a Jacobean stage play written by George Chapman.
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Cap of invisibility
In classical mythology, the Cap of Invisibility (Ἅϊδος κυνέην (H)aïdos kuneēn in Greek, lit. dog-skin of Hades) is a helmet or cap that can turn the wearer invisible.
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Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy
Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy (28 June 1516 – 10 October 1544) was an English courtier and patron of learning.
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Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (28 October 1466Gleason, John B. "The Birth Dates of John Colet and Erasmus of Rotterdam: Fresh Documentary Evidence," Renaissance Quarterly, The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Renaissance Society of America, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Spring, 1979), pp. 73–76; – 12 July 1536), known as Erasmus or Erasmus of Rotterdam,Erasmus was his baptismal name, given after St. Erasmus of Formiae.
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Festina lente
Festina lente or speûde bradéōs (σπεῦδε βραδέως) is a classical adage and oxymoron meaning "make haste slowly" (sometimes rendered in English as "more haste, less speed").
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Homo homini lupus
Homo homini lupus, or in its unabridged form Homo homini lupus est, is a Latin proverb meaning "A man is a wolf to another man," or more tersely "Man is wolf to man." It has meaning in reference to situations where people are known to have behaved in a way comparably in nature to a wolf.
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Honorificabilitudinitatibus
Honorificabilitudinitatibus (honōrificābilitūdinitātibus) is the dative and ablative plural of the medieval Latin word honōrificābilitūdinitās, which can be translated as "the state of being able to achieve honours".
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Hrafnagaldr Óðins
Hrafnagaldr Óðins ("Odin's raven-galdr") or Forspjallsljóð ("prelude poem") is an Icelandic poem in the style of the Poetic Edda.
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James IV of Scotland
James IV (17 March 1473 – 9 September 1513) was the King of Scotland from 11 June 1488 to his death.
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Juan de Mal Lara
Juan de Mal Lara (Sevilla, 1524 – Sevilla, 1571) was a Spanish humanist, poet, playwright and paremiologue at the University of Seville during the period of the Spanish Renaissance in the reign of Philip II of Spain.
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Kick the bucket
To kick the bucket is an English idiom, considered a euphemistic, informal, or slang term meaning 'to die'.
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Lesser of two evils principle
The lesser of two evils principle (or lesser evil principle and lesser-evilism) is the principle that when faced with selecting from two immoral options, the one which is least immoral should be chosen.
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List of Latin phrases (B)
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List of Latin phrases (H)
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List of Latin phrases (O)
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List of Latin phrases (P)
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Lydians
The Lydians were an Anatolian people living in Lydia, a region in western Anatolia, who spoke the distinctive Lydian language, an Indo-European language of the Anatolian group.
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Make a mountain out of a molehill
Making a mountain out of a molehill is an idiom referring to over-reactive, histrionic behaviour where a person makes too much of a minor issue.
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Lord of Montaigne (28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592) was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.
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Mills of God
The proverbial expression of the mills of God grinding slowly refers to the notion of slow but certain divine retribution.
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Netherlandish Proverbs
Netherlandish Proverbs (Nederlandse Spreekwoorden; also called Flemish Proverbs, The Blue Cloak or The Topsy Turvy World) is a 1559 oil-on-oak-panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that depicts a scene in which humans and, to a lesser extent, animals and objects, offer literal illustrations of Dutch language proverbs and idioms.
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Novum Instrumentum omne
Novum Instrumentum omne was the first published New Testament in Greek (1516).
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Pandora's box
Pandora's box is an artifact in Greek mythology connected with the myth of Pandora in Hesiod's Works and Days.
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Paremiography
Paremiography (from Greek παροιμία - paroimía, "proverb, maxim, saw" and γράφω - grafō, "write, inscribe") is the study of the collection and writing of proverbs.
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Parmiter's School
Parmiter's School is a co-educational state comprehensive school with academy status in Garston, Hertfordshire on the outskirts of North West London, England with a long history.
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Pluto (mythology)
Pluto (Latin: Plūtō; Πλούτων) was the ruler of the underworld in classical mythology.
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Polydore Vergil
Polidoro Virgili, commonly Latinised as Polydorus Vergilius, or anglicised as Polydore Vergil (or Virgil), and often known as Polydore Vergil of Urbino (c. 1470 – 18 April 1555) was an Italian humanist scholar, historian, priest and diplomat, who spent most of his life in England.
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Proverb
A proverb (from proverbium) is a simple and concrete saying, popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience.
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Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus
Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus, Latin for Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus freezes, or Sine Cerere et Libero friget Venus, is a quotation from the Roman comedian Terence (c. 195/185 – c. 159 BC) that became a proverb in the Early Modern period.
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St Cuthbert's Society, Durham
St Cuthbert's Society, colloquially known as Cuths, is a college of Durham University.
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Syncretism
Syncretism is the combining of different beliefs, while blending practices of various schools of thought.
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Teach fish how to swim
Teach fish how to swim is an idiomatic expression derived from the Latin proverb piscem natare doces.
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Telamon
In Greek mythology, Telamon (Ancient Greek: Τελαμών) was the son of King Aeacus of Aegina, and Endeïs, a mountain nymph.
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The Ass Carrying an Image
The Ass Carrying an image is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 182 in the Perry Index.
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The Bird in Borrowed Feathers
The Bird in Borrowed Feathers is a fable of Classical Greek origin usually ascribed to Aesop.
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The blind leading the blind
"The blind leading the blind" is an idiom and a metaphor in the form of a parallel phrase, it is used to describe a situation where a person who knows nothing is getting advice and help from another person who knows almost nothing.
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The Blind Leading the Blind
The Blind Leading the Blind, Blind, or The Parable of the Blind (De parabel der blinden) is a painting by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, completed in 1568.
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The Crow and the Snake
The Crow or Raven and the Snake or Serpent is one of Aesop's Fables and numbered 128 in the Perry Index.
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The Eagle and the Beetle
The story of the feud between the eagle and the beetle is one of Aesop's Fables and often referred to in Classical times.
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The Farmer and the Viper
The Farmer and the Viper is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 176 in the Perry Index.
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The finger
In Western culture, the finger or the middle finger (as in giving someone the (middle) finger or the bird or flipping someone off) is an obscene hand gesture.
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The Fox and the Cat (fable)
The Fox and the Cat is an ancient fable, with both Eastern and Western analogues involving different animals, that addresses the difference between resourceful expediency and a master stratagem.
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The Fox and the Mask
The Fox and the Mask is one of Aesop's Fables, of which there are both Greek and Latin variants.
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The Hedgehog and the Fox
The Hedgehog and the Fox is an essay by philosopher Isaiah Berlin—one of his most popular essays with the general public—which was published as a book in 1953.
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The Satyr and the Traveller
The Satyr and the Traveller (or Peasant) is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 35 in the Perry Index.
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The Two Pots
The Two Pots is one of Aesop's Fables and numbered 378 in the Perry Index.
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The Young Man and the Swallow
The young man and the swallow (which also has the Victorian title of "The spendthrift and the swallow") is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 169 in the Perry Index.
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There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip
There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip is a very old proverb, similar in meaning to "don't count your chickens before they hatch".
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Vicesimus Knox
Vicesimus Knox (1752–1821) was an English essayist, headmaster and Anglican priest.
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Washing the Ethiopian white
Washing the Ethiopian (or at some periods the Blackamoor) White is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 393 in the Perry Index.
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Zeus and the Tortoise
Zeus and the Tortoise appears among Aesop’s Fables and explains how the tortoise got her shell.
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1500 in literature
This article lists literary events and publications of 1500.
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1500 in philosophy
This is a list of philosophy-related events in 1500.
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1508 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1508.
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16th century in literature
This article presents lists of literary events and publications in the 16th century.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adagia
