Book plate of the Royal Society
nullius in verba
nullius in verba
Immanuel Kant explains the meaning of the sentence in Project for a Perpetual Peace ([„Zum ewigen Frieden"], 1795). It's a legal maxim meaning that cases should be judged according to the law without regard for political consequences.
Et "fiat iustitia ruat caelum" modo in mentem venit.FIAT IVSTITIA NE PEREAT MUNDUS
Also known without NE:
FIAT IVSTITIA ET PEREAT MVNDVS (i. e. Let justice be done, though the world perish.)
Cf. https://latin.stackexchange.com/questions/15247/what-does-f%C3%ADat-i%C3%BAstitia-et-pereat-mundus-mean
Louis XIV was the one who came out with the original catch phrase (his favourite decorative motiff on artillery pieces)
which mean...?The masthead of the Vatican City's daily newspaper "L'Osservatore Romano"- "The Roman Observer"
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It has two mottoes:
"Unicuique suum"
and
"Non praevalebunt".