Decimus Magnus Ausonius quote: "Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole. [Lat., Incipe quidquid agas: pro toto est prima operis pars.]"

Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have fini...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS

Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS

Begin; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have fini...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS

Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man. [Lat., Nil homine terra pejus ingrato creat.]
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS

If thou art terrible to many, then beware of many. [Lat., Multis terribilis, caveto multos.]
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS

It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome. [Lat., Crux est si metuas quod vincere nequeas....
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS

A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor. [Lat...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness. [Lat., Turpe quid ...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS

The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. [Lat., Si fortuna juvat, ca...
DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.
AUSONIUS AUSONIUS

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
AUSONIUS AUSONIUS

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
AUSONIUS AUSONIUS

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
AUSONIUS AUSONIUS

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
AUSONIUS AUSONIUS

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
AUSONIUS

Truth is the mother of hatred.
AUSONIUS

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.
AUSONIUS

No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly.
AUSONIUS

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
AUSONIUS

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
AUSONIUS

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
AUSONIUS

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. -Ausonius.
AUSONIUS

Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read.
AUSONIUS

If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.
AUSONIUS

Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have fini...
AUSONIUS

Nemo bonus Brito est
No good man is a Briton
AUSONIUS

Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man
AUSONIUS

What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.
DECIMUS LABERIUS

The naming of one man amounts to the exclusion of another.
DECIMUS LABERIUS

No injury can be complained of by a consenting party.
DECIMUS LABERIUS

He who takes the profit ought also to take the labour.
DECIMUS LABERIUS

He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober.
DECIMUS LABERIUS

He who is first in time has the prior right.
DECIMUS LABERIUS

From his silence a man's consent is inferred.
DECIMUS LABERIUS

An uncalled-for defence becomes a positive accusation.
DECIMUS LABERIUS

He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of impotence.
DECIMUS LABERIUS

Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
DECIMUS LABERIUS

To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.
DECIMUS LABERIUS

He confesses his guilt who flies from his trial.
DECIMUS LABERIUS

And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
DECIMUS LABERIUS

Hard cases make bad law.
DECIMUS LABERIUS

No man ought to be twice tried for the same offence.
DECIMUS LABERIUS

It is not to be argued that the abuse of a thing proves that it is useless.
DECIMUS LABERIUS

The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a saint.
DECIMUS LABERIUS

As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to you.
DECIMUS LABERIUS

'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids movin...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.
MAGNUS SCHEVING

My message with 'LazyTown' has always been really simple; I just want to get kids and famili...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

I've made a profit from everything I have done in life.
MAGNUS SCHEVING

My philosophy is 'learn while you live.' 'LazyTown' is about balance. I'm not th...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

I am nearly the worst role model for a healthy person. To me, a healthy person is someone in balance...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different thi...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

I honestly think that kids should not exercise: they should keep fit through play. The most importan...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

Mums ask me how to get their husbands off the couch as well as asking me to marry them. But kids ask...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

I'm happiest when I'm moving.
MAGNUS SCHEVING

I learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhap...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to ...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad bu...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is ba...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

Health is never going to go out of fashion.
MAGNUS SCHEVING

At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friend...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in ...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

When I was a little kid growing up in Iceland, I always dreamed about creating something that could ...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits pe...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way ...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

Getting kids moving is a key factor in tackling obesity and health problems among the young.
MAGNUS SCHEVING

There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I ...
MAGNUS MAGNUSSON

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.
MAGNUS MAGNUSSON

I love doing crosswords, it's so important to keep the brain going.
MAGNUS MAGNUSSON

I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.
MAGNUS MAGNUSSON

You don't say to a university professor who is immersed in a particular subject that they should...
MAGNUS MAGNUSSON

While designed to visually seduce, Dune is not primarily a formal exercise but a social, ecological,...
MAGNUS LARSSON

Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary cou...
MAGNUS LARSSON

Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.
MAGNUS LARSSON

The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.
MAGNUS LARSSON

In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewh...
MAGNUS LARSSON

I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to p...
MAGNUS LARSSON

Rather than just mimic processes in nature, I think we can harness the powers of nature itself and a...
MAGNUS LARSSON

With the right kind of financing, I think we can grow by 100 percent per year.
MAGNUS LARSSON

The only thing we lack for even faster growth is more capital.
MAGNUS LARSSON

How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
MAGNUS LARSSON

I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
MAGNUS LARSSON

We're stuck in the concrete age. Concrete has really become this ever-present material that'...
MAGNUS LARSSON

Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts th...
MAGNUS LARSSON

If you happen to live close to the desert border, you can pretty much calculate how long it will be ...
MAGNUS LARSSON

I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications ...
MAGNUS LARSSON

One of the most obvious reasons to start using timber rather than concrete is that it's the one ...
MAGNUS LARSSON

One billion grains of sand come into existence in the world each second. That's a cyclical proce...
MAGNUS LARSSON

Unfortunately I'm still not a fashion expert.
MAGNUS CARLSEN

My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.
MAGNUS CARLSEN

It's nice to be financially secure. Apart from that, I really don't care too much about mone...
MAGNUS CARLSEN

I'm not really into rap.
MAGNUS CARLSEN

I was lucky enough to attend schools where they were understanding about when I needed to go abroad ...
MAGNUS CARLSEN

My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.
MAGNUS CARLSEN

People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.
MAGNUS CARLSEN

I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
MAGNUS CARLSEN

It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have...
MAGNUS CARLSEN

Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only t...
MAGNUS CARLSEN

I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
MAGNUS CARLSEN

Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinki...
MAGNUS CARLSEN

I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first,...
MAGNUS CARLSEN

I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually unt...
MAGNUS CARLSEN

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I g...
MAGNUS CARLSEN

One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intellige...
MAGNUS CARLSEN

I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In...
MAGNUS CARLSEN

Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't ge...
MAGNUS CARLSEN

It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
MAGNUS CARLSEN

I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov&...
MAGNUS CARLSEN

I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we ...
MAGNUS CARLSEN

Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.
MAGNUS CARLSEN

If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other peopl...
MAGNUS CARLSEN

There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People w...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't....
MAGNUS CARLSEN

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sp...
MAGNUS CARLSEN

You think aerobics is not a cool sport? I think you are wrong. It requires amazing discipline - flex...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

This game, I know it was important to the conference to get these two schools to be a part of it. We...
BURKE MAGNUS

I feel like there's a really deep and rabid fan base there that would take as much TV content as we'...
BURKE MAGNUS

Our job is to put on the best possible service and make it available through cable to fans. We don't...
BURKE MAGNUS

That kind of technique, which was used a lot during the early days of ESPN2, really didn't work the ...
BURKE MAGNUS

We don't own the syndication rights to the ACC.
BURKE MAGNUS

Actually, we're ahead of schedule. We've done a pretty good job having DirecTV right out of the gate...
BURKE MAGNUS

We are thrilled to be able to revive coverage of Midnight Madness as a television franchise in partn...
BURKE MAGNUS

Can they survive as a business? I don't know. That's not for me to say. From a product standpoint, m...
BURKE MAGNUS

From a general sense, there's certainly more than enough product out there for more than one network...
BURKE MAGNUS

We do want people to lobby their local cable operators. It's still a time-tested method of influenci...
BURKE MAGNUS

Only the passionate were immortal, it seemed. If you fought, screwed, screamed, laughed, or otherwis...
MAGNUS FLYTE

It's a mammoth task. We don't have the resources in terms of our treasury departments, we don't have...
MAGNUS RANSTORP

This kind of research should not be done without proper ethical oversight. These are very, very tric...
DAVID MAGNUS

Think beyond the situation, its a facade against your success.
STEPHEN MAGNUS

It's a tough, tough issue that people could legitimately have different views about. The prudential ...
DAVID MAGNUS

They are really training for specific missions, ... And it's weeding out the elite of the elite, the...
MAGNUS RANSTORP

The city was in a panic, though a panic in Italy means most people still stand around coffee bars dr...
MAGNUS FLYTE

There hasn't been any situation like we saw recently with the Greek case where you were so close to ...
MAGNUS RANSTORP

The field is littered with things that looked incredibly promising but, when exposed to harsh light ...
DAVID MAGNUS

To say insurance companies should pay for stuff that is completely unproven is asking a lot from ins...
DAVID MAGNUS

It's not that journals need to be more careful. Institutions need to be set up so that we don't prod...
DAVID MAGNUS

Identifying the roles of different contributors is important. What does it mean that someone is list...
DAVID MAGNUS

I worry that we're learning the wrong lesson and that is to overhaul the peer-review process. In the...
DAVID MAGNUS

It's certainly disappointing that we're back to where we were. But it's not a disaster.
DAVID MAGNUS

On the whole, it's a scary time in medical ethics because of consumer advertising. Leaving it up to ...
DAVID MAGNUS

Even the best guide you can ever have is the visual imagery on how you mix these things together,
MAGNUS RANSTORP

The worry is if you humanize them too much you cross certain boundaries. But I don't think this rese...
DAVID MAGNUS

Dig your nails deep enough into the back of a Soviet, and eventually you'll find a Russian.
MAGNUS FLYTE

The state is in a real bind. It has to come up with a painless way of killing without physicians inv...
DAVID MAGNUS

If you dont understand the MOTIVE, don't judge the means!
STEPHEN MAGNUS

They just nail the fire out of me every time they go up.
GEORGE MAGNUS

Idea is an introduction to creativity that gives birth to reality.
STEPHEN MAGNUS

The judge can impose as high a fine as he likes.
MAGNUS BURROUGH

It sends a message that this is the kind of fine that will be given to large companies in the future...
MAGNUS BURROUGH

The momentum of EVE Online is accelerating globally. The growth of the game's popularity within the ...
MAGNUS BERGSSON

The growth of the game's popularity within the MMOG genre has become especially evident in highly co...
MAGNUS BERGSSON

I love Spain for its landscapes and weather, so I am happy to make my debut at the Vuelta, ... I suf...
MAGNUS BACKSTEDT

I spend a lot of time over the winter on the track and this is a record that really appeals to me, ....
MAGNUS BACKSTEDT

The idea of a suicide attack against a metropolitan area was first coined in 1994, when Algerian GIA...
MAGNUS RANSDORP

Bin Laden is a totally multinational enterprise. He has tentacles and followers all around the world...
MAGNUS RANSDORP

It will become more chaotic, ... It is obvious that the United States is in Iraq to stay. If this is...
MAGNUS RANSTORP

New converts feel they have to prove themselves. Those who seek more extreme ways of proving themsel...
MAGNUS RANSTORP

The parliament has the potential of getting seriously bogged down in a number of issues. It could ev...
MAGNUS RANSTORP

It's not a question of either/or. There are certain elements of either strand of thought that have m...
MAGNUS RANSTORP

Every single terrorist event we've had, and the failed ones we've had, there usually are foreign con...
MAGNUS RANSTORP

There were people were lying in the rubble crying and shouting for help. I ran back to the shop to g...
MAGNUS TERSSON

Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL

Fear not death; fear not having lived.
NARCISSISMUS DECIMUS MAXIMUS

If idiots can’t think for themselves, then what is a movement of idiots?

A herd followi...
NARCISSISMUS DECIMUS MAXIMUS

Love yourself’ the social horde spouts from on high, mere moments later they frown at a bypassing ...
NARCISSISMUS DECIMUS MAXIMUS

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow i...
HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER

A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that u...
HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
SAINT ALBERTUS MAGNUS

Blind zeal can only do harm.
MAGNUS GOTTFRIED LICHTWER

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.
HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER

Blind zeal can only do harm. [Ger., Blinder Eifer schadet nur.]
MAGNUS GOTTFRIED LICHTWER

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it, but somehow it does...
HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER

It is not who will eat beans, but who will pick it that is scarce.
MAGNUS NWAGU AMUDI

We have to teach the young that no one is out to do them any favours, even NGOs are formed for some ...
MAGNUS NWAGU AMUDI

Growing up, you would think that love is a tangible object, that you can point or touch it. Love is ...
MAGNUS NWAGU AMUDI

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER

One of the biggest issues I have against organised religion is its unregulated ability to separate p...
MAGNUS NWAGU AMUDI

Show me a universal life manual and I will show you a ready-made scam.
Life is spontaneous. MAGNUS NWAGU AMUDI

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)

Father of his country. [Lat., Pater pariae.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)

I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)

Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O P...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)

You are not to do evil that good may come of it. [Lat., Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogita...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)

By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)

A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan. [Lat., Rara avis in terris, nigroqu...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of a...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)

Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)

No one rejoices more in revenge than woman. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. [Lat., Semper et infirmi est anim...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools. [Lat., At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure. [Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)

There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods. [...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL)

Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole. [Lat., Incipe quidquid agas: pro toto est prima operis pars.]

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