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Felicitas multos habet amicos: Prosperity has many friends
 

Hans Holbein's portrait of Erasmus, at the Louvre Museum, provides a background for this Erasmus quote.

 
 

Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.: Perhaps someday it will bring pleasure to remember even these things
 

The line from Vergil's Aeneid speaks as much for the epic as it does for the Gustave Doré painting of Vergil leading Dante, from France's Musée de Brou.

 
 

Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto: I am a human being; I consider nothing human alien to me
 

Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, found in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, is behind this quote by Terence.

 
 

I have fought the good fight - Greek
 

This Valentin de Boulogne painting, Saint Paul Writing His Epistles, from Houston's Museum of Fine Arts, is paired with a line from St. Paul.

 
 

Ipsa scientia potestas est.: Knowledge itself is power
 

An open book lies behind this quote, possibly from Sir Francis Bacon.

 
 

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