Aut Caesar, aut nihil. (et nihil fuit)
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Translation: Either Caesar or nothing (and nothing came of it) (all or nothing)
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This motto is supposedly inscribed on his sword, as referenced by Yriarte. This device was most likely never adopted because it was not ever displayed by Borgia.
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Title of a requiem mass that was celebrated in the Santa Maria Church of Viana in Navarra in remembrance of Cesare Borgia.
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Henk (2007-08-05). Aut Caesar aut nihil (et nihil fuit). Blogger (service). Retrieved on 2008-09-18.Cesare Borgia
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A dictum [Beckett] quotes from his favourite philosopher, the second-generation Cartesian Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) suggests his overall stance toward the political: ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis, which may be glossed: Don’t invest hope or longing in an arena where you have no power.
J. M. Coetzee
Quippe res dei ratio quia deus omnium conditor nihil non ratione providit disposuit ordinavit, nihil [enim] non ratione tractari intellegique voluit. Igitur ignorantes quique deum rem quoque eius ignorent necesse est quia nullius omnino thesaurus extraneis patet. Itaque universam vitae conversationem sine gubernaculo rationis transfretantes inminentem saeculo procellam evitare non norunt.
Tertullian
Ex nihilo nihil fit.
Rene Descartes
Nihil infinitum est.
Seneca the Elder
Satius est supervacua scire quam nihil.
Seneca the Younger
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