nihil
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De mortuis nihil nisi bonum is a lovely motto.
From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2018
He once wrote, “Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.”
From The Guardian • Nov. 9, 2016
This emergence of subjective feelings from physical stuff appears inconceivable and is at odds with a basic precept of physical thinking, the Ur-conservation law—ex nihilo nihil fit.
From Scientific American • Jan. 1, 2014
De mortuis nihil nisi bonum: Of the dead say nothing unless it is kind.
From Slate • Aug. 2, 2012
Quia non rete accipitri tenditur neque miluo, Qui male faciunt nobis: illis qui nihil faciunt tenditur; Quia enim in illis fructus est, in illis opera luditur.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
