Sunt qui non habeant, est qui non curat habere

English translation: There are those who have nothing. He wants nothing.

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Latin term or phrase:	Sunt qui non habeant, est qui non curat habere
English translation:	There are those who have nothing. He wants nothing.
Entered by:	jerryk (X)

18:00 Jul 9, 2002

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Mining & Minerals / Gems / gems

Latin term or phrase: Sunt qui non habeant, est qui non curat habere

latin phrase

There are those who have nothing. He wants nothing.

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Just off the top of my head, as usual when I read Latin.

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jerryk (X)

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4 +4

There are those who have nothing. He wants nothing.

jerryk (X)

5 +1

Don't care

Antonio Camangi

4 +1

Not an answer...

Jolanta Schimenti

There are some who possess nothing, and there is one who does not care about possessing.

David Wigtil

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peer agreement (net): +4

There are those who have nothing. He wants nothing.

Explanation:
Just off the top of my head, as usual when I read Latin.

jerryk (X)

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peer agreement (net): +1

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Explanation:
I have long ago learned to say, with Horace - who, however, is too wavering in his philosophy, vacillating between the precepts of Zeno and the less worthy maxims of Epicurus, and attempting, as we say, "duabus sellis sedere" - concerning such accidents, I say, with the pregnant brevity of the poet - "Sunt qui non habeant, est qui non curat habere." He is referring to gems, and purple, and other insignia of wealth; but I may apply his words not less justly to the tributes men pay us with their lips and their pens, which are also matters of purchase, and often with base coin. Yes, "inanis" - hollow, empty - is the epithet justly bestowed on Fame.'
- Chapter 5 - The Blind Scholar and his Daughter- George Eliot,Romona

http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/eliot/romola/rom_05.html

Jolanta Schimenti
Local time: 16:18
Native speaker of:

Lithuanian

12 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Don't care

Explanation:
There are some who have nothing and there is somebody who doesn't care having (possessing)!

Antonio Camangi
Local time: 22:18
Native speaker of:

Italian

20 hrs confidence:

There are some who possess nothing, and there is one who does not care about possessing.

Explanation:
SUNT QUI: There are some (people) who...

NON HABEANT: Don't have/possess (anything), can't have/possess, might not have/possess (The subjunctive-mood form [rather than indicative mood "habent"] in a QUI-clause indicates general characteristic, rather than actual & current fact.)

EST QUI: There is one (man/person) who...

NON CURAT HABERE: Doesn't care to have/possess, doesn't worry about having/possessing (The indicative-mood form [rather than the subjunctive mood "curet"] in a QUI-clause indicates actual & current fact, rather than mere possibility or characteristic.]

--Loquamur
Ph. D. in ancient Greek, college professor of Greek, Latin, German, French, and Spanish

David Wigtil
United States
Local time: 16:18
Native speaker of: English

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