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Quod est, eo decet uti: et quicquid agas, agere pro viribus. What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
Quod est, eo decet uti: et quicquid agas, agere pro viribus. What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
Approximate author period: c. 75 BC · classical
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- Approximate author period: c. 75 BC · classical
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 6 · quotation 21 · Cicero · De Senectute. IX.
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