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| Concept: | Action. |
| Category: | 1. Simple voluntary action |
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"action is eloquence" [Coriolanus]; actions speak louder than words; actum aiunt ne agas [Terence]; "awake, arise, or be forever fall'n" [Paradise Lost); dii pia facta vident [Ovid]; faire sams dire; fare fac; fronte capillata post est occasio calva; " our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts" [Bailey]; "the great end of life is not knowledge but action [Huxley]; "thought is the soul of act" [R. Browning]; vivre-ce
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| Antonyms: | inaction |
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| Concept: | [Constant antecedent] Cause. |
| Category: | 1. CONSTANCY OF SEQUENCE IN EVENTS |
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causa latet vis est notissima [Ovid]; felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas [Vergil. "Happy is he who has been able to learn the causes of things" (Latin)].
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| Antonyms: | effect |
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| Concept: | [Indefinite duration] Course. |
| Category: | 1. ABSOLUTE TIME |
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labitur et labetur [Horace]; truditur dies die [Horace]; fugaces labuntur anni [Horace]; "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day"
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