omnia vincit amor
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Origin of omnia vincit amor
from Virgil's Eclogues 10:69
Example Sentences
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His message ended with a Latin phrase, “Omnia vincit amor,” love conquers all, three words that were engraved on Ms. Eman’s gold engagement ring.
From Washington Post
“Omnia vincit Amor,” he claims, and it really does.
From New York Times
Prescott was an inveterate punster, and his puns were almost invariably bad; but when his bachelor friends reproached him for his desertion of them, he laughed and answered them with the Vergilian line,— "Omnia vincit amor et nos cedamus Amori"— a play upon words which Thackeray independently chanced upon many years later in writing Pendennis, and � propos of a very different Miss Amory.
From Project Gutenberg
A mezzotint of a physician, who attending a sick patient in bed is attacked by a group of Deaths bearing standards, inscribed “Despair,” “l’amour,” “omnia vincit amor,” and “luxury.”
From Project Gutenberg
There are some current-season shoes, some soaps, some “Omnia vincit amor” pendants from House of Waris.
From New York Times
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