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Group 38: Latin

 

519. Bellum omnium contra omnes.

520. Terra devoratrix omnium.

521. Omnium finis mors est.

522. Morborum medicus omnium mors ultimus.

523. Domina omnium et regina ratio.

524. Superbia initium est omnium malorum.

525. Voluptas malorum mater omnium.

526. Avaritia est radix omnium malorum.

527. Radix omnium malorum est cupiditas.

528. Radix omnium malorum est amor pecuniae.

529. Pigritia omnium vitiorum nutrix est.

530. Omnium malorum origo otium.

531. Radix omnium bonorum caritas.

532. Mundus est ingens deorum omnium templum.

 

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519. War of all against all. (This is the motto of Thomas Hobbes's philosophical treatise, Leviathan.)

 

520. Earth is the devourer of all things. (This is a phrase from the wonderful dialogue of Pippin and Albin.)

 

521. Death is the end of all things. (This is a saying you can find in Thomas a Kempis's Imitation of Christ.)

 

522. Death is the final physician of all illnesses. (You can read an essay on this saying at AudioLatinProverbs.com.)

 

523. Reason is the queen and the mistress of all things. (You will find this phrase in Cicero's Tusculan Disputations.)

 

524. Pride is the start of all evils. (Compare a similar statement in Ecclesiasticus: initium omnis peccati est superbia. )

 

525. Pleasure is the mother of all evils. (This is a sentiment you will find expressed in Cicero.)

 

526. Greed is the root of all evils. (You can also find a different arrangement - "Radix Omnium Malorum Avaritia" - which is an acronym for ROMA, Rome, as an attack on the Roman Church.)

 

527. The root of all evils is desire. (This is a saying you will find in 1 Timothy.)

 

528. The root of all evils is the love of money. (This is a variation on 1 Timothy, providing a gloss on the Greek word filarguria, the amor pecuniae, love of money.)

 

529. Laziness is the nurse of all vices. (Compare a similar sentiment in the "Robinson" Latin textbook from 1794: Industria plurimarum virtutum mater, pigritia vero omnium vitiorum fons est., "Hard word is the mother of so many virtues, while laziness is the source of all vices." )

 

530. Leisure is the origin of all evils. (Notice the great use of alliteration with the letter "o" in this saying.)

 

531. Love is the root of all good things. (You can find this in Saint Augustine, Sermon 72)

 

532. The world is a giant temple of all the gods. (This is a saying adapted from Seneca.)

 

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