Amat victoria curam: Victory likes careful preparation

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This quote about victory is fitting before an image of Rome's Colosseum.

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Ars longa, vita brevis: Art is long, life is short

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Raphael's fresco, "The School of Athens," from the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican, helps reiterate this Hippocratic translation.

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Citius Altius Fortius: Faster, Higher, Stronger

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The motto of the Olympics fittingly placed before a laurel.

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Cogito, ergo sum: I think, therefore I am

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Rodin's sculpture, "The Thinker," sitting in the garden of the Rodin museum, seems to ponder Descartes here.

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Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo: Grant me chastity and self-control but not yet

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Bottivelli's painting, St. Augustine in His Study, located in Uffizi, Florence, is paired with this quote from Augustine.

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Dabit deus his quoque finem: God will also give an end to these things

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This quote from Vergil's Aeneid looms over these Pompeiian remains, much like Mount Vesuvius in the background.

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Damnant quod non intellegunt: They condemn what they do not understand

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Together this quote and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina nod to the Library of Alexandria, lost in antiquity.

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Ego sum rex Romanus et supra grammaticam: I am a Roman king and above grammar

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Pisanello's portrait of Sigismund of Luxemburg, now in Vienna, is placed behind a quote, possibly from the king himself.

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Errare est humanum.: To err is human

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Eraser shavings serve as a nice addendum to this quote.

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Experientia docet: Experience teaches

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A weathered column stands behind this line from Tacitus.

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Felicitas multos habet amicos: Prosperity has many friends

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

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

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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.

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