Sine Quotes Page 2

Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate.

A plurality (of reasons) should not be posited without necessity.

Nihil est sine ratione. There is nothing without a reason.

To defer anything to the Greek Calends is to defer it sine die.

There were no calends in the Greek months. The Romans used to pay rents, taxes, bills, etc., on the calends, and to defer paying them to the “Greek Calends” was virtually to repudiate them. (See NEVER.)

Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura

The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity is bound to become ridiculous. Chastity is the sine qua non of lucidity and concentration.