Consider what [you say] to whom [you say it] and where [you are], Daniel Meisner

“Considera cuid, cui et qvo” (Consider what [you say] to whom [you say it] and where [you are])

“Considera cuid, cui et qvo” (Consider what [you say] to whom [you say it] and where [you are]) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

This engraving is part of a vast and famous series of drawings made for the book Thesaurus Philopoliticus (1623). The series consists of more than eight hundred reproductions of urban landscapes to which the German poet Daniel Meisner and the publisher Eberhar Kieser added a message and a symbolic image.

There is nothing in the mouth that has not been in the sense before, Daniel Cramer

“Nil sit in ore, qvod non prius in sensu” (There is nothing in the mouth that has not been in the sense before)

“Nil sit in ore, qvod non prius in sensu” (There is nothing in the mouth that has not been in the sense before) 850 480 V.M. Kwen Khan Khu

I send you this forty-fifth emblem from Daniel Cramer’s book of emblems entitled: “Nil sit in ore, qvod non prius in sensu” (There is nothing in the mouth that has not been in the sense before)