A remarkable number of English words have Latin origins, and many Latin phrases are still used untranslated by English stylists. Here are a selection of 45 Latin phrases you could use in your blogs to add a little classicist feel and erudition to your endeavours. From John o’London.
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Every age has its peculiar folly, some scheme, project or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement or the mere force of imitation. Failing in these, it has some madness, to which it is goaded by political or religious causes, or both combined.
Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
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Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophesy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?
