Scientia potentia est A Sponti (Außerparlamentarische Opposition) version of the slogan is "Wissen ist Macht, nichts wissen, macht auch nichts", a pun about the previous motto along the line "Knowledge is power, but being ignorant doesn't bother anyway". Joschka Fischer and Daniel Cohn-Bendit belong to those Spontis that nevertheless held powerful positions, in Fischer's case with no more formal education than a taxi driver's licence. The German Bundeswehr Bataillon Elektronische Kampfführung 932, an electronic warfare unit based in Frankenberg (Eder), still uses the Latin version "Scientia potentia est" as its motto. Though its meaning varies from author to author, the phrase often implies
Et facere et pati fortia Romanum est Et facere et pati fortia Romanum est Et facere et pati fortia Romanum est is a Latin phrase meaning "Acting and suffering bravely is the attribute of a Roman." Its comes from Livy's "Ab Urbe condita" 2, 12, 9. According to legend, a certain Mucius Cordus attempted to kill an Etruscan king Lars Porsena, who was besieging Rome. When the Etruscans caught him, he said “"Romanus sum civis"” ("I am a Roman citizen") and continued with "Et facere et pati fortia Romanum est". To prove his point, he held his right hand without flinching in a fire that the king