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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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Thinking nothing done while anything remained to be done.<br />

‘Pharsalia’ bk. 2, l. 657<br />

Coniunx<br />

Est mihi, sunt nati: dedimus tot pignora fatis.<br />

I have a wife, I have sons: all <strong>of</strong> them hostages to fortune.<br />

‘Pharsalia’ bk. 6, l. 661.<br />

Jupiter est quodcumque vides, quocumque moveris.<br />

Jupiter is whatever you see, whichever way you move.<br />

‘Pharsalia’ bk. 9, l. 580<br />

12.139 George Lucas 1944—<br />

<strong>The</strong> Empire strikes back.<br />

Title <strong>of</strong> film (1980)<br />

<strong>The</strong>n man your ships, and may the force be with you.<br />

‘Star Wars’ (1977 film)<br />

12.140 Lucilius (Gaius Lucilius) c.180-102 B.C.<br />

Maior erat natu; non omnia possumus omnes.<br />

He was older; we cannot all do everything.<br />

In Macrobius ‘Saturnalia’ bk. 6, ch. 1, sect. 35.<br />

12.141 Lucretius c.94-55 B.C.<br />

Ergo vivida vis animi pervicit, et extra<br />

Processit longe flammantia moenia mundi<br />

Atque omne immensum peragravit, mente animoque.<br />

So the vital strength <strong>of</strong> his spirit won through, and he made his way far outside the flaming<br />

walls <strong>of</strong> the world and ranged over the measureless whole, both in mind and spirit.<br />

‘De Rerum Natura’ bk. 1, l. 72 (on Epicurus)<br />

Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum.<br />

So much wrong could religion induce.<br />

‘De Rerum Natura’ bk. 1, l. 101<br />

Nil posse creari<br />

De nilo.<br />

Nothing can be created out <strong>of</strong> nothing.<br />

‘De Rerum Natura’ bk. 1, l. 155<br />

Suave, mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis,<br />

E terra magnum alterius spectare laborem;<br />

Non quia vexari quemquamst iucunda voluptas,<br />

Sed quibus ipse malis careas quia cernere suave est.

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