Latin Mention Searching full latin texts for prior use?

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Harun

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I'm doing a little research into a particular phrase "Ex Labore Venustas". I recently had this translated on this forum and have adopted it as the motto for my art studio. I want to know if the exact phrase has been published before. I can't find that exact phrase in Google, but I'd like to do a specific search of Latin texts. Of course, I have no idea where to begin. Can anyone give me a road map, or some resources, or lacking that just some hints?
 
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Pacifica

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AoM dixit:
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Note that that site has only classical Latin texts (and a few from late antiquity). Anything medieval, Renaissance, and modern won't be on it.

If there are no Google hits, that presumably means the exact phrase doesn't appear in any text, Latin or otherwise, that's freely accessible online.
 
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Harun

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So I've been told to investigate Benvenuto Cellini's autobiography "The Life of Benvenuto Cellini," written in the mid-16th century. I'm told Cellini wrote, "Ex labore venustas, et quieta non movere," in this book. But I've not been able to substantiate this as I can't so far find a searchable Latin text for the book.

Anyone know how to find this?
 
Pacifica

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Harun dixit:
I've been told
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By whom?
Harun dixit:
"Ex labore venustas, et quieta non movere,"
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The two parts don't seem to belong together.

Stare decisis et quieta non movere apparently is a saying. You'll find it easily on Google though maybe not its origin.

I don't know where you can find the 16th-century "Life of Benvenuto Cellini", but what you've been told sounds all very odd.
 
AoM

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Yeah, I was like, "wait, wouldn't he have written in Italian?" lol

Checking an English translation, he did include some Latin (see below), but I'm not seeing the text mentioned.
Possessing some acquaintance with the Latin tongue, he put a legend in
Latin round his looking-glass, to this effect-”Whithersoever the wheel
of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet:”

______Rota sum: semper, quoquo me verto, stat Virtus.
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Pacifica

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It really sounds like Chat GPT doing its usual thing when asked a question that's too obscure: "Let me just make up an answer by cobbling random bits of existing stuff together!"
 
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Harun

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When I pressed, I got links but never found the quote either. Thanks for helping me check this out.
 
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