Latin Quotes
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"I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at my funeral."
"Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)"
"Non est ad astra mollis e terris via"- "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars"
"Fas est ab hoste doceri.One should learn even from one's enemies."
"Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'."
"Pactum serva"- "Keep the faith"
"Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas"- "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses"
"Science is only a Latin word for knowledge"
"The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse."
"Illegitimi non carborundum."
"Sator arepo tenet opera rotas."
"In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni."
"Prima sapientiae clavis definitur, assidua scilicet seu frequens interrogatio … Dubitando enim ad inquisitionem venimus; inquirendo veritatem percipimus."
"Nam non solum scire aliquid, artis est, sed, quædam ars etiam docendi."
"Minime sibi quisque notus est, et difficillime de se quisque sentit."
"Nec scire fas est omnia."
"E cœlo descendit nosce te ipsum."
"Scire est nescire, nisi id me scire alius scierit."
"Et teneo melius ista quam meum nomen."
"Scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter?"
"Ego te intus et in cute novi."
"Plus scire satius est, quam loqui."
"Natura semina scientiæ nobis dedit, scientiam non dedit."
"Faciunt næ intelligendo, ut nihil intelligant."
"They tear your possessions to pieces, and my heart."
"deposito pariter cum veste timore"
"onerat Seianum, saevitiam, superbiam, spes eius"
"Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith"
"Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars"
"What do you think that fish is?' Sam asked Astrid.,' she said.'Yeah?' Sam made a face. 'Do you think it's okay to eat?'? Inedible? Joke, duh. Try to keep up, Sam, I made that really easy for you.'Sam smiled. 'You know, a real genius would have known I wouldn't get it. Ergo, you are not a real genius. Hah. That's right. I threw down an 'ergo.''She gave him a pitying look. 'That's very impressive, Sam. Especially from a boy who has twenty-two different uses for the word 'dude."
"I totally carpe-d the snot out of this diem!"
"Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses"
"E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars."
"Motto for latin countries: If you're not late, you're not on time"
"Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb?"
"Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost."
"It sounds to me, dear, as if your satirist is a bit like a monk. They both take a rather dim view of the world, and both try to do something abou"
"Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.)"
"You Can't Replace A Star with A Lightbulb"
"My Friends I Will Always Remember, And My Enemies I Will Never Forget!"
"My Name Is Latif Mercado, And I Am... A Workaholic!"
"Failures Are The Cornerstones Of Success!"
"Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.""I shall either find away, or make one"
"...to be able to enjoy the life you have spent, is to live it twice."
"Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living."
"It was my first-year Latin teacher in high school who made me who made me discover I'd fallen in love with it (grammar). It took Latin to thrust me into bona fide alliance with words in their true meaning. Learning Latin fed my love for words upon words in continuation and modification, and the beautiful, sober, accretion of a sentence. I could see the achieved sentence finally standing there, as real, intact, and built to stay as the Mississippi State Capitol at the top of my street."
"Latin is a dead tongue And Romans made songs! Then no one disagree: It delighted them in theory Now it's "the Latin" in me."
"I don't know what I'm doing in Santa Teresa," Amalfitano said to himself after he'd been living in the city for a week."Don't you? Don't you really?" he asked himself."Really I don't," he said to himself. And that was as eloquent as he could be."
"That was a good mark in Latin, and I am pleased with your steady improvement in it."
"I have indeed lived and worked to my taste either in art or science. What more could a man desire? Knowledge has always been my goal. There is much that I shall leave behind undone…but something at least I was privileged to leave for the world to use, if it so intends…As the Latin poet said I will leave the table of the living like a guest who has eaten his fill. Yes, if I had another life to spend, I certainly would not waste it. But that cannot be, so why complain?"
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