Latin
Quotations T

Talis quum sis, utinam noster esses
They are so good that I wish they were on our side
Plutarch, Agesilaus (said to his enemy Pharnabazus)

Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum
So potent was religion in inciting to evil
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1:101

Tempus edax rerum
Time the devourer of [all] things
Ovid, Metamorphoses 15:234

Tertium non datur
There is no third [alternative]
[Aristotle, On Interpretation 9, of mutually exclusive propositions]
Albert Schweitzer, in stating the dilemma of modern theories of Jesus

Testis unus, testis nullus
One witness is no witness
Rule of early Roman law [not recognized in Anglo-American practice]
compare Plautus's dictum, at Pluris

Trahit sua quemque voluptas
Each is drawn by his own kind of pleasure
Vergil, Eclogues 2:65
the lion after its prey, the lover after the loved one

Tu quoque
You also
Vergil, Aeneid 7:1 [and frequent elsewhere]

 

 

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