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  • * Tamen humani juris et naturalis potestatis est unicuique quod putaverit colere, nec alii obest, aut prodest alterius religio: sed nec religionis est cogere religionem, quae sponte suscipi debeat, non vi; cum et hostiae ab animo libenti expostulentur: ita et si nos compuleritis ad sacrificandum, nihil praestabitis diis vestris, ab invitis enim sacrificia non desiderabunt.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • Carthage, to dissuade him from the persecution he intended: "Tamen humani juris et naturalis potestatis est unicuique quod putaverit colere, nec alii obest, aut prodest alterius religio: sed nec religionis est cogere religionem, quae sponte suscipi debeat, non vi; cum et hostiae ab animo libenti expostulentur: ita et si nos compuleritis ad sacrificandum, nihil praestabitis diis vestris, ab invitis enim sacrificia non desiderabunt."

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • Here you see the mere opposition of the terms produces a verse; but in prosaic composition, the proper form of the last line would be, _quod scis nihil prodest; quod nescis multum obest_.

    Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • "Quod scis, nihil prodest; quod nescis, multum obest."

    The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • Humani iuris et naturalis potestatis, unicuique quod putaverit colere, nec alii obest aut prodest alterius religio.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • A. ille meis pacem dat montibus: ecce per illum, seu cantare iuuat seu ter pede laeta ferire gramina, nullus obest; licet et cantare choreis et cantus uiridante licet mihi condere libro, 130 turbida nec calamos iam surdant classica nostros.

    A Singing Match Calpurnius 1912

  • Aut quid obest lignea, si hoc potest, quando nihil quærimus, nisi parere quod clausum est?

    The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 James Stalker 1887

  • You don't have to be obest not to be able to fit into airline coach seats.

    WordPress.com News 2009

  • You don't have to be obest not to be able to fit into airline coach seats.

    Cafferty File 2009

  • et Pudor et castris quidquid Amoris obest. omnia te metuent, ad te sua bracchia tendens

    The Captive of Love Ovid 1912

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