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

Hinc parcet veniens mors: nam nihil auferet à me, Non sic evades, ditem cum paupere tollit.

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