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  • Oportet igitur ad sanitatem domus in altioribus aedificare, et ad speculationem.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • “He must grow, and I must become less” — Oportet illum crescere, me autem minui.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Oportet infirmo imprimere salutem, utcunque promittere, etsi ipse desperet.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Oportet vt peregrinus in finibus Hungariæ transeat magnum Danubij flumen, et vadat in Belgradum; Hoc flumen oritur inter Montana Almaniæ, et currens versus Orientem, recipit in se 40. flumina antequam finiatur in mare.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Oportet vt peregrinus in finibus Hungari� transeat magnum Danubij flumen, et vadat in Belgradum; Hoc flumen oritur inter Montana Almani�, et currens versus Orientem, recipit in se 40. flumina antequam finiatur in mare.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • To this the honest old father answered thus: My son Dandin, when Don Oportet taketh place, this is the course which we must trace, gl.c. de appell.l. eos etiam.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • * Oportet haereses esse, sed tamen non ideo bonum haereses, quia eas esse oportebat, quasi non et malum oportuerit esse; nam et Dominum tradi oportebat, sed vae traditori!

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • "Oportet haereses esse, sed tamen non ideo bonum haereses, quia eas esse oportebat, quasi non et malum oportuerit esse; nam et Dominum tradi oportebat, sed vae traditori!"

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • Preacher by his life to giue good example, a Iudge to be incorrupted, solitarie and vnacqainted with Courtiers or Courtly entertainements, & as the Philosopher saith _Oportet iudicem esse rudem & simplicem_, without plaite or wrinkle, sower in looke and churlish in speach, contrariwise a

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • It finally leads him to union with Christ by exciting love for him as well as by pointing out the frailty of all creatures: "It is necessary to leave the beloved thing for the beloved, because Jesus wishes to be loved above all things" (Oportet dilectum propter dilectum relinquere, quia Jesus vult solus super omnia amari: II, xvii).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

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