Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Latin term or phrase:
Tu tua fac cures — caetera mitte Deo.
English translation:
Take care of your own affairs--leave the rest to God.
Latin term
Tu tua fac cures — caetera mitte Deo.
It's mainly the word ‘cures’ that is a problem here – I can't fit it in with the rest of the maxim.
Please see:
http://books.google.com.tr/books?id=XJAUvKOBgY4C&pg=PA138&lp...
Best wishes, and many thanks,
Simon
| 5 | Take care of your own affairs--leave the rest to God. |
Joseph Brazauskas
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| 4 +3 | Mind thy own matters and leave God the rest |
Nina Storey
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Proposed translations
United States
When You Want It Done Right
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
, Spanish (Variant: Standard-Spain)
Works in: Latin to English, English to Latin, Greek (Ancient) to English, and 23 more.
Take care of your own affairs--leave the rest to God.
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Judit Babcsányi
: mbm2323 is right, cures is subordinate to fac
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If expressed in the order in which mbm2323 expresses it, it would be, but as it stands it is an object clause, equivilent to a substantive. Since 'curare' is transitive, it could not be otherwise.
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United Kingdom
16 years in medical translation
Native in: English 
Works in: Italian to English, Latin to English
Mind thy own matters and leave God the rest
http://www.archive.org/stream/poemsandtransla00fullgoog/poem...
http://www.kentarchaeology.ac/TopographicalTradition/1662-fu...
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Veronika McLaren
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Joseph Brazauskas
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Judit Babcsányi
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Discussion
Obviously, cūrā cūrēs would sound odd, so in this case, “Fac cūrēs" is used to mean, “See to it that you look after your own matters” or, as you put it, “Mind thy (thine?) own matters!”.