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Note 157: "Stat sua cuiquedies; breve et inreparabile tempus/omnibus est vitae; sed famam extendere factis,/Hoc virtutis opus."
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Stat sua cuique dies; breve et irreparabile tempus omnibus est vitae; sed famam extendere facti, hoc virtutis opus.
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Tanta gratia vocis famam conciliabat, saith Petronius [5079] in his fragment of pure impurities, I mean his Satyricon, tam dulcis sonus permulcebat aera, ut putares inter auras cantare
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Pindarus, of Thebes, is as much renowned for his poems, as Epaminondas, Pelopidas, Hercules or Bacchus, his fellow citizens, for their warlike actions; et si famam respicias, non pauciores Aristotelis quam
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Omnes sibi famam quaerunt et quovis modo in orbem spargi contendunt, ut novae alicujus rei habeantur auctores.
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Ex ruinis alienae existimationis sibi gradum ad famam struunt.
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Persarum, habétque famam terræ nobilis, et ad occidentem sui iungitur Regno Turciæ.
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Idem, famam esse ait, in Cardia, iuxta locum Dascbyli, in campo albo aquam esse lacte dulciorem.
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Scilicet non ceram illam, neque figuram, tantam vim in sese habere, sed memoria rerum gestarum flammam eam egregijs viris in pectore crescere, neque prius sedari, qu鄊 virtus eorum famam et gloriam ad鎞uauerit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Persarum, hab閠que famam terr� nobilis, et ad occidentem sui iungitur Regno Turci�.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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