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Word with: "nam"
"Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves
achieved, we can scarcely call our own.
[Lat., Nam genus et proavos et quae non fecimus ipsi
Vix ea nostra voco.]"
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
About: Ancestry
"For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags
with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she
is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.
[Lat., Parvula (nam exemplo est) magni formica laboris
Ore trahit, quodcunque potest, atque addit acervo
Quem struit; hand ignara ac non incauta futuri.]"
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
About: Ants
"For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
[Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,
Facti crimen habet.]"
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
About: Crime
"In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
[Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus valent praecepta quam
experimenta.]"
Author: Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian)
About: Experience
"Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst
Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first.
[Lat., Nam quamvis prope to, quamvis temone sub uno
Verentem sese, frustra sectabere cantum
Cum rota posterior curras et in axe secundo.]"
Author: Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus)
About: Failure
"That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not
how to return one.
[Lat., Nam improbus est homo qui beneficium scit sumere et
reddere nescit.]"
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
About: Favors
"For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if
you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one
denial.
[Lat., Nam quamblibet saepe obligati, si quid unum neges, hoc
solum meminerunt, quod negatum est.]"
Author: Pliny the Younger (Caius Caecilius Secundus)
About: Favors
"For knowledge, too, is itself a power.
[Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]"
Author: Francis Bacon
About: Knowledge
"Not only is that an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain
art in teaching it.
[Lat., Nam non solum scire aliquid, artis est, sed quaedam ars
etiam docendi.]"
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
About: Knowledge
"Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.
[Lat., Nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.]"
Author: Catullus (Caius Quintus Valerius Catullus)
About: Laughter
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