principium

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“Est caro nostra cinis modo principium modo finis.”

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

We saw before that hatred and wickedness are conditioned by egoism, and egoism rests on the entanglement of knowledge in the principium individuationis.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur

So we also hold that from the ever-clearer penetration of the principium individuationis proceeds, first, merely free justice, then love, extending to the complete abolition of egoism, and finally resignation or denial of the will.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur

In initium the beginning is made only with reference to time; in principium the foundation also is laid with reference to space.

From Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Döderlein, Ludwig

We may, then, define efficient cause as the extrinsic principle of the change or production of anything by means of action: principium extrinsicum a quo fluit motus vel productio rei mediante actione.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter