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“Qua to es Deus fortitudo mea” For Thou, O God, art my strength;
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Stories of Faith Jack Canfield 2008
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Haec est totius fortitudinis fortitudo fortis, quia vincet omnem rem subtilem, omnemque solidam penetrabit.
cytokinesis Diary Entry cytokinesis 2008
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“Qua to es Deus fortitudo mea” For Thou, O God, art my strength;
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Stories of Faith Jack Canfield 2008
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All actions following from emotion, which are attributable to the mind in virtue of its understanding, I set down to strength of character (fortitudo), which I divide into courage (animositas) and highmindedness (generositas).
The Ethics 2007
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Strength, in this sense, is the courage to support adversity, and to undertake virtuous and difficult actions; it is the “animi fortitudo.”
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Plugg; and this go, no pentecostal jest about it, how gregarious his race soever or skilful learned wise cunning knowledgable clear profound his saying fortitudo fraught or prudentiaproven, were he chief, count, general, fieldmarshal, prince, king or Myles the Slasher in his person, with a moliamordhar mansion in the
Finnegans Wake 2006
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By fortitudo one keeps one's aversions, particularly but not only fear, in check lest one shirk one's moral responsibilities in situations of danger or other adversity.
Aquinas' Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy Finnis, John 2005
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And the lettre of his grete seel, writen abouten, is this, Deus in Celo, Chan super Terram, ejus fortitudo.
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Vnde et ipse Imperator in literis suis ita scribit: Dei fortitudo, hominum Imperator.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Cuyne Cham super terram, Dei fortitudo: omnium hominum Imperatoris sigillum.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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