Placet

_Quod regi placet, id mihi quoque placet_; "Whatsoever pleaseth the king, that also pleaseth me." ❋ Hugh Latimer (1858)

"placet," taken measures to restrict mortmain (which exempted Church property from taxation), and had obtained the right to designate bishops. ❋ Emile Cammaerts (1915)

Keeping silence so as not to irritate the murderous regime in Iran is placet approval. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Si occidere placet, ferrum meum vides, si verberibus contenta es, curro nudus ad poenam. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Animus enim aspirat ut eo fruator, et formam boni habet et praecipue videtur et placet. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Qualis in oculis hominum qui inversis pedibus ambulat, talis in oculis sapientum et angelorum qui sibi placet, aut cui passiones dominantur. ❋ Unknown (2007)

[4992] Nec mihi cincta Diana placet, nec nuda Cythere, ❋ Unknown (2007)

Multis nihil placet atque adeo et divitias damnant, et paupertatem, de morbis expostulant, bene valentes graviter ferunt, atque ut semel dicam, nihil eos delectat, &c. 1771. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Quibus omnis in armis vita placet, non ulla juvat nisi morte, nec ullam esse putant vitam, quae non assueverit armis. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Si melancholicis haemorroides supervenerint varices, vel ut quibusdam placet, aqua inter cutem, solvilur malum. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Quum de zele culparetur, purgandi se causa permisisse fertur ut ea qui vellet uteretur; quod ejus factum in sectam turpissimam versum est, qua placet usus indifferens foeminamm. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A common humour it is of all men to think well of other men's fortunes, and dislike their own: [1768] Cui placet alterius, sua nimirum est odio sors; but [1769] qui fit Mecoenas, &c., how comes it to pass, what's the cause of it? ❋ Unknown (2007)

Ennius in Menelippe adviseth thee as a friend to take statam formam, si vis habere incolumem pudicitiam, one of a middle size, neither too fair nor too foul, [6270] Nec formosa magis quam mihi casta placet, with old Cato, though fit let her beauty be, neque lectissima, neque illiberalis, between both. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Needless to say, I'm a Non-placet with Liberal Conservative sympathies. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The Non-placet differs in not being open to conviction; he is a man of principle. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The Non-placet believes that it is always well to be on the Safe Side, which can be easily located as the northern side of the interior of the Senate House. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Maritain quotes Aquinas's definition of beauty as id quod visum placet, 'that which pleases when seen': he argues that Aquinas's view of beauty is not at all Platonist, since what pleases will vary according to circumstance. ❋ Unknown (2005)