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  • Æquam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem is a good precept, which our author, though a scholar, appears either not to have remembered or wilfully to have ignored.

    Current Literature 1863

  • OS NÚMEROS não mentem e os gráficos são assustadores.

    Can newspaper publishers survive this revenue freefall? Perhaps, if they embrace a digital future. » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009

  • "Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt," reads the epitaph from Virgil that the authors, all army medical officers, have placed above a photograph of a weeping soldier covering his eyes with his fingers.

    The War We Don't Want to See Halpern, Sue 2008

  • Etenim hoc quod imputant nobis qui sunt a Valentino, in ea quae deorsum Ebdomade dicentes nos remanere, quasi non adtollentes in altum mentem neque quae sursum sunt sentientes, quoniam portentiloquium ipsorum non recipimus, hoc idem ipsum qui a Basilide sunt his imputant.

    The Gnostic shuffle ... Frank Wilson 2006

  • Optimum quidem fuerat eam patribus nostris mentem a diis datam esse, ut vos Italiae, nos Africae imperio contenti essemus.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [3410] Tu tamen interea effugito quae tristia mentem

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quid est enim verius, quam neminem esse oportere tam stulte arrogantem, ut in se mentem et rationem putet inesse, in caelo mundoque non putet?

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

  • Preces audi et amoris miserere mei, &c. Sic fatus recusantis persuasit mentem puellae.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Elegantissima res est, quae et mentem acuit, corpus exerceat, et spectantes oblectet, multos gestus decoros docens, oculos, aures, animum ex aeque demulcens.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [6752] If their death had been a little more lingering, wherein they might have some leisure in their hearts to cry for mercy, charity may judge the best; divers have been recovered out of the very act of hanging and drowning themselves, and so brought ad sanam mentem, they have been very penitent, much abhorred their former act, confessed that they have repented in an instant, and cried for mercy in their hearts.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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