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Many, many times since it all happened, I have pondered that pair of great maxims, Principiis obsta and Finem respice — "Resist the beginnings" and "consider the end."

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2021

Many, many times since it all happened I have pondered that pair of great maxims, Principiis obsta and Finem respice — "Resist the beginnings" and "Consider the end."

From Salon • Dec. 2, 2021

Varios quid at Senex amores expetis: Tumulum tuæ finemque vitæ respice.

From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Douce, Francis

Trulie, my Lord, I cannot blame his devotioun to so fair a saint, though I may wish the chapel for his adoration had been better chosen, and the companie more suitable; sed respice finem.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)

"O anima Christiana, respice vulnera morientis, pretium redemptionis."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various