Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura.
Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura.
There is no great genius without a tincture of madness. Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementi.
A sine curve goes off to infinity, or at least the end of the blackboard.
Himself loving himself so much without a rival Quam se ipse amans sine rivali.
Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
SEAL, n. A mark impressed upon certain kinds of documents to attest their authenticity and authority. Sometimes it is stamped upon wax, and attached to the paper, sometimes into the paper itself. Sealing, in this sense, is a survival of an ancient custom of inscribing important papers with cabalistic words or signs to give them a magical efficacy independent of the authority that they represent. In the British museum are preserved many ancient papers, mostly of a sacerdotal character, validated by necromantic pentagrams and other devices, frequently initial letters of words to conjure with and in many instances these are attached in the same way that seals are appended now. As nearly every reasonless and apparently meaningless custom, rite or observance of modern times had origin in some remote utility, it is pleasing to note an example of ancient nonsense evolving in the process of ages into something really useful. Our word sincere is derived from sine cero, without wax, but the learned are not in agreement as to whether this refers to the absence of the cabalistic signs, or to that of the wax with which letters were formerly closed from public scrutiny. Either view of the matter will serve one in immediate need of an hypothesis. The initials L. S., commonly appended to signatures of legal documents, mean locum sigillis, the place of the seal, although the seal is no longer used --an admirable example of conservatism distinguishing Man from the beasts that perish. The words locum sigillis are humbly suggested as a suitable motto for the Pribyloff Islands whenever they shall take their place as a sovereign State of the American Union.
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.
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