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Sine caritate quippe fides potest quidem esse, sed non et prodesse.
[persistence of delusion] and the obsession with maintaining it 2009
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Sine caritate quippe fides potest quidem esse, sed non et prodesse.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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A salon is a gathering of stimulating people of quality under the roof of an inspiring hostess or host, partly to amuse one another and partly to refine their taste and increase their knowledge through conversation and readings, often consciously following Horace's definition of the aims of poetry, "either to please or to educate" "aut delectare aut prodesse est".
An article in the New York Times: "Commoner Captures Princess, Blog Version." Ann Althouse 2009
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In quibus posuit et hoc verbum iniquum, quod dicunt, nihil prodesse parvulis ad salutem lavacrum baptismi, et debere eos reservari usque dum perveniant ad annos discretionis. back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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"Nec miseræ prodesse in tali tempore quibat, Quod patrio princeps donarat nomine regum."
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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Hanc contra omnem perniciem habendam prodidere Druidæ Gallorum, et contra omnia oculorum vitia fumum ejus prodesse.
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Some say that he may reveal it to such a person as can be beneficial and not detrimental (tali qui potest prodesse et non obesse), but the doctors of theology in this case say in general
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Quo pacto defensorum opera uel tota frigeret, uel si prodesse hominibus mallet, in accusationis habitum uerteretur, Ipsi quoque improbi, si eis aliqua rimula uirtutem relictam fas esset aspicere uitiorumque sordes poenarum cruciatibus se deposituros uiderent compensatione adipiscendae probitatis, nec hos cruciatus esse ducerent defensorumque operam repudiarent ac se totos accusatoribus iudicibusque permitterent.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Etenim plus hominibus reor aduersam quam prosperam prodesse fortunam.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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Videtur ergo Marcellus sub finem vitae aliquid peccasse, quod Athanasium ab ejus communione discedere cogeret: et cum jamdudum a tota fere oriente damnatus esset, amissa Athanasii communione, quae unicum fere illius refugium erat, desertus ab omnibus videri debuit, nec ei nova ignominia notato prodesse poterat concessa olim a Romana Ecclesia communio.
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