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Latin	English
potestas	authority /opportunity
potestas	power, ability, authority, opportunity
cui peccare licet peccat minus. Ipsa potestas semina nequitiæ languidiora facit	he who has it in his power to commit sin is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able weakens the desire (Ovid)
derivativa potestas non potest esse major primitiva	the power derived cannot be greater than that from which it is derived
emitur sola virtute potestas	virtue alone can purchase power (Claudian)
ipsa scientia potestas est	knowledge itself is power (Francis Bacon)
libertas est potestas faciendi id quod jure licet	liberty consists in the power of doing what the law permits (Cicero)
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas es	Knowledge is power. (Sir Francis Bacon)
nihil est quod credere de se non possit, quum laudatur dis æqua potestas	there is nothing of which it (power) cannot believe itself capable, when it is praised as equal to that of the gods (Juvenal)
nulla fides regni sociis, omnisque potestas impatiens consortis erit	there is no trust among colleagues in power, and all power will be impatient of a colleague (Lucan)
peragit tranquilla potestas quod violenta nequit; mandataque fortius urget imperiosa quies	power can accomplish more by calmness than by violence, and calmness best enforces the imperial mandate (Claudian)
pictoribus atque poëtis quidlibet audendi semper fuit æqua potestas	the power of daring anything their fancy suggests has always been conceded to the painter and the poet (Horace)
potestas vitæ necisque	power over life and death
potestas, facultas	ability
vis vires (pl.), potestas, facultas, potentia	power

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