Q
quid pro quo • kwid prō kwō
noun
1. Latin: something for something else. As in winking at a uranium deal in exchange for $500,000 given to a
favorite charity.
quidquid pro quo • kwid-kwid prō kwō
noun
1. Latin: practically everything for
something else. As in selling your entire
political platform in exchange $500,000,000.
To paraphrase Horace
Qui cupiet, metuet quoque, porro
que metuens vivet,
liber mihi non erit umquam.
perdidit arma,
locum Virtutis deseruit, qui
semper in augenda
festinat et obruitur potestati.
Those that want also fear,
and those that live
in fear will never be free.
The man always in a
hurry, obsessed
by more and more
power has, running away
from where Virtue
posted him, lost his shield.
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