respice finem

A Latin phrase meaning "look to the end." Don't make an impulsive decision that will hurt you later—respice finem.

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Trinity's motto Respice Finem ('Look to the end') guides them as always to keep her honour and remain the best school of all.

Lalin's Column: Rugby and Bradby

Throughout the narrative of his professional and domestic highs and lows, Ivan's unexamined life is presented as devoid of any meaning and in complete defiance of the Latin inscription, "respice finem" ("remember the end"), dangling ironically from his watchchain (2:256).

Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych: satire, religion, and the criticism of denial

Respice finem! ("Consider the end"), the Romans used to say.

An autumn abyss becomes more likely

"Respice Finem: The Literary Criticism of Giovanni Gentile." Italica 47 (1970): 3-27.

Adventures of form: Italian Aesthetics from neo-idealism to Pareyson

A "capable, cheerful, good-natured and sociable man" with a new watch-medallion that reads respice finem (regard the end), getting ready to be executed piecemeal by Tolstoy.

What's the Story? Aspects of the Form

Perimpanayagam in his Grade Seven (or Form Two in those days) English class at Trinity College, Kandy Sri Lanka took immense pride in teaching English in this elite school whose motto was 'respice finem' or 'look to the end'.

Charles Dickens Bicentenary, New 'Twist' to Oliver Twist story and Trinity's Perimpanayagam