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Latin proverbs

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    A lasso rixa quaeritur
        Translation: "Weariness loves a wrangle", "It is the weary one who picks a quarrel". Seneca

    A mari usque ad mare
        Translation: "From sea to sea," national motto of Canada.

    A bove maiore discit arare minor
        Translation: "From the old ox, the young one learns to plow."; "A good example makes a good job."

    A Deo rex, a rege lex
        Translation: "The king is from God, the law from the king". Attributed to James I of England

    A posse ad esse non valet consequentia
        Translation: "From a thing's possibility one cannot be certain of its reality." See also Ab esse ad posse.

    Ab amicis honesta petamus
        Translation: "One should only ask from a friend what he is capable of." Cicero

    Ab esse ad posse valet, a posse ad esse non valet consequentia.
        Translation: "From a thing's reality one can be certain of its possibility, from its possibility one cannot be certain of its reality."

    Ab igne ignem capere
        Translation: "To take fire from fire or To fight fire with fire." Cicero

    Ab obice saevior ibit
        Translation: "The resistance only makes him attack more ferociously."

    Ab ovo (usque ad mala)
        Translation: "From the egg to the apples."; "From the beginning to the end." (The Roman meal usually started with eggs and ended with fruit.)

    Ab urbe condita
        Translation: "From the founding of the city", 'city' meaning Rome

    Abeunt studia in mores
        Translation: "What one trains frequently, will become part of his character" Ovidius

    Abiistis, dulces caricae
        Translation: "You're finished, sweet figs" Petronius

    Abiit iam et reverti debet
        Translation: "He has been gone for long and must once return." Tertullianus

    Absens haeres non erit
        Translation: "The absent will not be an heir.", "Out of sight, out of mind"

    Absentem laedit, qui cum ebrio litigat.
        Translation: "He who fights with a drunken person hurts an absentee." (I.e., the "sober" version of the drunken person)

    Absint offensae, cum fit celebratio mensae.
        Translation: "Insults shouldn't be made when people are celebrating."

    Absit iniuria verbis.
        Translation: "Let injury by words be absent."

    Absit invidia (verbo).
        Translation: "Don't take this the wrong way."

    Absit omen.
        Translation: "May this not be an omen."

    Absit reverentia vero
        Translation: "The truth shouldn't be silenced to spare someone."

    Absque argento omnia vana
        Translation: "Without money, all efforts are in vain."

    Abstulit qui dedit
        Translation: "He who gave it, took it."

    Ab uno disce omnes
        Translation: "Judge all by this one"

    Abusus non tollit usum
        Translation: "Abuse is no argument against proper use", legal phrase meaning that just because something can be abused there is no reason for putting an end to its legitimate use

    Abyssus abyssum invocat
        Translation: "Deep calleth unto deep" (Psalm 42:7)

    A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.
        Literally: "A boar is often held by quite a small dog."

    A capite ad calcem
        Translation: "From head to heel"

    Accipe quam primum, brevis est occasio lucri.
        Translation, Literally: "Act now, the chance on profit is short." ; more commonly known as: "Strike while the iron is hot"

    Acquiris quodcumque rapis
        Lit.: "You acquire what you reap (or take by force)", often mistranslated as: "you reap what you sow"

    Acquirit qui tuetur
        Translation, Literally: "He who preserves something, will have something"; more commonly known as: "Sparing is the first gaining"

    Acta est fabula
        (Caesar Augustus's last words) Translation: "So ends the story." or "The story has been completed." (perhaps with the meaning of "What has happened was a story/fable.")

    Acta Non Verba
        Translations: "Deeds, not words" - motto of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, at Kings Point, New York, USA.

    Actum est de republica
        Translation: "It is all over with the state/republic"

    Ad astra per aspera
        Translation: "To the stars through adversity" - motto of Kansas (more frequently as "per ardua ad astra", which is the motto of the Royal Air Force)

    Ad augusta per angusta
        Translation: "To high places by narrow roads."

    Adeo in teneris consuescere multum est
        Translation, Literally: "It is very important to be well trained in your youth"; more commonly known as: "Who learns young, forgets not when he is old."

    Adaequatio rei et intellectus
        Traslation: "The intellect (of the knower) must be adequate to the thing (known)", also meaning the thought must be based on the thing. From St. Thomas Aquinas

    Adhuc tua messis in herba est
        Translation, Literally: "Your crops are still in grass", equivalent to: "There is still a lot to be done"

    Ad impossibilia nemo tenetur
        Translation: "No one is obliged to do the impossible." (Literally, "No one is held to impossible [things].")

    Ad maiorem Dei gloriam
        Translation: "For the greater glory of God." Motto of the Jesuits / St. Ignatius of Loyola

    Adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.
        Translation: "Add little to little and there will be a big pile" — Ovid.

    Adsum, qui feci
        Translation: "Here I am who did it"

    Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.
        Translation: "As long as a sick person is conscious, there is still hope." Commonly "While there's life there's hope."

    Aevo rarissima nostro simplicitas
        Translation: "These days (lit.: in our days) simplicity is very rare"

    Age quod agis
        Translation: "Do what you do", in the sense of "Do well what you do", "Do well in whatever you do" or "Be serious in what you do"

    Age si quid agis
        Translation: "Do when you do something", "If you do something, do it well" see also "Age quod agis"

    Alea iacta est.
        Translation: "The die is cast!" (said by Julius Caesar when he crossed the Rubicon, contrary to law.)
        Apparently said in Greek, not in Latin as is commonly thought, according to Tom Holland's Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic.

    Aliam vitam, alio mores
        Translation: "Another life, other values", more commonly known as: "Other times, other manners"

    Aliis si licet, tibi non licet
        Translation: "If others are allowed to, that does not mean you are"

    Aliquando et insanire jucundum est
        Translation: "It is fun to do something foolish every now and then"

    Alius et idem
        Translation: "Something else, yet still the same"

    Alta alatis patent
        Translation: "The sky is open to those who have wings"

    Alter ego est amicus
        Translation: "A friend is another me", originally in Greek by either Zeno or Plato, see also 'Alter ipse amicus'

    Alter ipse amicus
        Translation: "A friend is another self.", see also 'Alter ego est amicus'

    Alterius non sit, qui potest esse sui
        Translation: "Don't depend on someone else if you can be your own master"

    Altus Quinque
        Translation: "High Five."

    Ama nesciri
        Translation: "Love the obscurity" in the sense of "Do not seek fame"

    Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur
        Translation: "Even a god can barely love and still have all his wits about him"

    Amat Victoria Curam
        Translation: "Victory loves preparation"

    Amici, diem perdidi.
        Translation: "Friends, I lost a day.", spoken by Titus in the context that he has done no good deed during that day. Source: Suetonius’ Life of Titus 8.1

    Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur.
        Translation: "A true friend is discerned during an uncertain matter" (Cicero)

    Amicus optima vitae possessio.
        Translation: "A friend is the greatest treasure in life"

    Amor patriae nostra lex.
        Translation: "Love of the fatherland is our law." Motto of the Polish Winged Hussars.

    Amor vincit omnia.
        Translation: "Love conquers all". Often quoted in this form, but originally Omnia vincit amor (same translation) ((Virgil, Eclogues 10:69).

    Amore, more, ore, re
        Translation: (with) "love, behaviour, words, actions" from "Verus amicus amore more ore re cognoscitur" Virgilius (Latin for : True friend becomes known in the love, the disposition, the speeches, the deeds.)

    Amor mundum fecit
        Translation: "Love created the earth."

    Amor omnibus idem
        Translation: "Love is equal to all"

    Amor patitur moras
        Translation: "Love is patient"

    Amor tussisque non celatur
        Translation: "Love, and a cough, cannot be concealed"

    A mundo condito
        Translation: "From the creation of the world"

    Anguis in herba (latet)
        Translation: "A snake (is hidden) in the grass." There is something malevolent hidden. (Virgil)

    Animo deliberato
        Translation: "Deliberately"

    Animus imperat
        Translation: "The mind rules"

    An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur? (alternatively: regatur orbis)
        Translation: "Don't you know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?
        Axel Oxenstierna (1583 – 1654), 1648 letter to son, who was involved in negotiating the Peace of Westphalia[1]
        Sometimes attributed to Cardinal Richelieu. Variant form due to John Selden

    Aquila non capit muscas.
        Translation: "The eagle does not hunt flies."

    Aqua et igne interdictus
        Translation: "To be denied water and fire" in the sense of "banished"

    Arma potentius aequum
        Translation: "Justice is more powerful than weapons"
    Ars Amandi
        Translation: The Art of Love.

    Ars celare artem
        Translation: "The greatest art is to hide art"

    Ars est celare artem
        Translation: "Art is to conceal art" or "The art is in concealing the art"

    Ars gratia artis
        Translation: "Art for art's sake"
        Motto of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

    Ars longa, vita brevis.
        Translation: "Art is long, life is short." The Latin translation by Horace of a phrase from Hippocrates, often used out of context. The art referred to in the original aphorism was the craft of medicine, which took a lifetime to acquire. Has been used recently to mean a person's artistic creations will long outlive them.

    Atqui, e lotio est.
        Translation: Yet it comes from urine.
        Emperor Vespasian to his son Titus, when the latter, complaining about the former's urine tax, acknowledged a coin collected had no odor.
        Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius (9 December 2003) [121 CE]. "Divus Vespasianus". University of Chicago. pp. section 23.3, page 317. Retrieved on 2006-09-09.
        English translation: "The Life of Vespasian". University of Chicago. 9 December 2003. Retrieved on 2006-09-09.

    At spes non fracta
        Translation: "But hope has not been broken yet"

    Audaces fortuna iuvat
        Translation: "Fortune favors the brave."(Virgil, Aeneid 10,284)

    Audentes fortuna juvat
        Translation: "Fortune favors the bold." (Motto of the 366th Fighter Wing at Mountain Home AFB, ID)

    Audere est facere
        Translation: "To dare is to do." (Motto of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club)

    Audi, vide, tace, si tu vis vivere (in pace).
        Translation: "Hear, see, be silent, if you wish to live (in peace)." Roman proverb, according to this.

    Audiatur et altera pars.
        Translation: "The other part should be heard as well."

    Auri sacra fames.
        Translation: "The accursed hunger for gold." - Seneca

    Aurum est potestas.
        Translation: "Gold is power." (Motto of the Fowl Family)

    Aut agere aut mori
        Translation: "Either act or die"

    Aut amat aut odit mulier, nil est tertium
        Translation: "A woman either loves or hates, she does not know a third alternative"

    Aut bibat aut abeat
        Translation: "Let him either drink or leave"

    Aut disce aut discede
        Translation: "Either learn or leave."

    Aut dosce, aut disce, aut discede
        Translation: "Either teach, or learn, or leave." Inscription in St. Paul's School according to the Diaries of Samuel Pepys.

    Aut nunc, aut numquam
        Translation:"Now or never"

    Aut omnia, aut nihil
        Translation: "All or none"

    Aut pati, aut mori
        Translation: "Either tolerate or die"

    Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.
        Translation: "I will either find a way or I will make one."

    Aut vincere, aut mori
        Translation: "Either conquer or die"

    Avarus nisi cum moritur, nil recte facit
        Translation: "The only good thing a miser does, is dying"

    Ave Caesar! Morituri te salutant!
        Translation: "Hail Caesar! Those who are about to die salute you!" - Said by gladiators before they fought during the reign of Claudius I (10 BC- AD 54). Often cited with "salutamus" ("we . . . salute") in place of "salutant.", cited by Suetonius as "Ave Imperator!..."

    Avaritia facit bardos
        Translation: "Greed makes you stupid."

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 Beati hispani, quibus vivere bibere est
        Translation: "Happy [are] the Spaniards, for whom to live is to drink" - A reference to the Latin accent of the Spanish, in which "v" was pronounced as "b".

    Beati pauperes spiritu
        Translation: "Blessed are the poor in spirit" (Vulgate, Matthew 5:3)

    Beatus, qui prodest, quibus potest.
        Translation: "He is lucky who helps everyone he can." or, very differently, "He is lucky the one who gets an advantage from those on which he has some power." ()

    Bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria nube.
        Translation: "Others may lead wars, you, happy Austria, marry." Referring to Austria's cunning policy in early modern times to marry into all important royal houses.

    Bellum se ipsum alet
        Translation: "War will feed on itself"

    Bene diagnoscitur, bene curatur.
        Translation: "Something that is well diagnosed can be cured well."

    Bene qui latuit bene vixit
        Translation: "He lives well who lives unnoticed"
        Ovid, Tristia, III.iv.25

    Bis dat, qui cito dat.
        Translation: "He gives twice who gives promptly." (Publilius Syrus)
        quoted in E. Cobham Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

    Bis repetita non placent
        Translation: "Repetitions are not well received." (Horace, Ars Poetica 365)

    Bona diagnosis, bona curatio.
        Translation: "Good diagnosis, good cure."

    Bona valetudo melior est quam maximae divitiae.
        Translation: "Good health is worth more than the greatest wealth."

    Boni pastoris est tondere pecus, non deglubere.
        Translation: "A good shepherd shears his sheep, he doesn't flay them" (Tiberius to his regional commanders) i.e. don't tax the populace excessively

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    Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.
        Translation: "Kill them all. The Lord will know His own."
        Variation: "Kill them all. Let God sort them out."
        Supposed statement by Abbot Arnold Amaury before the massacre of Béziers during the Albigensian Crusade, recorded 30 years later, according to Caesar of Heisterbach.
        Cited in The Perfect Heresy by Stephen O'Shea

    Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris
        Translation: "If Caesar were alive, you'd be chained to an oar."

    Carpe diem
        Translation: "Seize the day." By Horace, Odes I,11,8, to Leuconoe: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero ("take hold of the day, believing as little as possible in the next"). The verb "carpere" has the literal meaning "to pick, pluck," particularly in reference to the picking of fruits and flowers, and was used figuratively by the Roman poets to mean "to enjoy, use, make use of."

    Carthago delenda est
        Translation: "Carthage must be destroyed." Actually, ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam ("Apart from that, I conclude that Carthage must be destroyed") Cato the Elder used to end every speech of his to the Senate, on any subject whatsoever, with this phrase. Mentioned to indicate that someone habitually harps on one subject.

    Cave ab homine unius libri
        Translation: "Beware the man of one book."

    Cave canem
        Translation: "Beware the dog."

    Caveat emptor.
        Translation: "Let the buyer beware."

    Cedo nulli
        Translation: "I yield to no one."

    Ceteris paribus
        Translation: "Other things being equal."

    Cibi condimentum est fames
        Translation: "Hunger is a spice for any meal."

    Circumornatae ut similitudo templi
        Translation: "To be as the polished cornerstones of the temple."

    Citius Altius Fortius
        Translation: "Faster, Higher, Stronger" (Olympic Games motto)

    Civis Romanus sum.
        Translation: "I am a Roman" (Cicero)

    Clara pacta, boni amici.
        Translation: "Clear agreements, good friends."

    Claude os, aperi oculos!
        Translation: "Shut your mouth, open your eyes."

    Cogito ergo sum
        Translation: "I think, therefore I am." Argument used by René Descartes as proof of his own existence. Descartes actually meant it in the sense of "I am thinking, therefore I am."

    Concordia civium murus urbium.
        Translation: "Harmony of citizens is the wall of cities."

    Concordia salus.
        Translation: "Well-being through harmony."

    Confíteor Deo omnipoténti, beátæ Maríæ semper Vírgini, beáto Michaéli Archángelo, sanctis Apóstolis, ómnibus Sanctis.
        Translation: "I confess to God Almighty, and to the Holy Eternal Virgin Maria, to the Holy Apostles and to Almighty Christ./ "I confess to God Almighty, to Saint Mary always Virgin, to Saint Michael the Archangel, to the Holy Apostles, to all Saints."
        part of the Confiteor, Roman Catholic confession, used in the hunchback of Notre Dame song Hellfire

    Consilio et Animis
        Translation: "By wisdom and courage"
        Motto of the Virginia Military Institute

    Consuetudinis magna vis est
        Translation: "The power of habit is great."
        Cicero, Tusculanae Quaestiones, II.37

    Consuetudo altera natura est
        Translation: "Habit is second nature."

    Contra vim mortis non est medicamen in hortis
        Translation: "There's no herb against the power of death."

    Contraria contrariis curantur
        Translation: "Opposites are cured by their opposites."

    Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges
        Translation: "The greater the degeneration of the republic, the more of its laws" (Tacitus)

    Credo quia absurdum
        Translation: "I believe it because it is absurd." Attributed to Tertullian; see fideism.

    Crucis in Signo Vinces
        Translation: Conquer in the Sign of the Cross motto of Cardinal Dougherty High School in Philadelphia, PA

    Crudelius est quam mori semper timere mortem.
        Translation: "It is crueller to be always afraid of dying than to die. (Seneca)

    Cuius regio, eius religio
        Translation: "He who rules, his religion": the privilege of a ruler to choose the religion of his subjects, established at the Peace of Augsburg in 1555.

    Cuiusvis hominis est errare
        Translation: "Every human can make a mistake." (Cicero)

    Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare. — Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippica XII, ii, 5
        English Translation: "Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one."
        English Equivalent Proverb: "Fool me once and shame on you, fool me twice and shame on me."

    Cuivis dolori remedium est patientia.
        Translation: "Patience is the cure for all suffering."

    Cum grano salis.
        Translation: "With a grain of salt." Take something not literally, but with due consideration. (Pliny the Elder)

    Cum recte vivis, ne cures verba malorum
        Translation: "If you live properly, don't worry about what the evil ones say" (Cato the younger)

    Cura te ipsum
        Translation: "Cure thyself." An exhortation to medical doctors or experts in general.

    Cura Omnia Potest
        Translation: "Determination is omnipotent."

    Curae pii Diis sunt
        Translation: "The pious are [in] the care of the gods."

    currant verba licet, manus est velocior illis; nondum lingua suum, dextra peregit opus.
        Translation: "Although the words run speedily, the hand is swifter than they; the tongue has not yet, the hand has already, completed its work."
        From Notarius, by Cicero
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    Damnant quod non intellegunt.
        Translation: "They condemn what they do not understand." often quoted "People fear what they do not understand."

    De gustibus non est disputandum.
        Translation: "In matters of taste there is no dispute."
        Commonly rendered as "There's no accounting for taste."
        Alternative form:
    De gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum.
        Translation: “There’s no arguing about tastes and colors.”

    De minimis non curat praetor. (or rex or lex)
        Translation: "The authority" (or "king", or "law") "does not care about trivial things."

    De mortuis nihil nisi bonum.
        Translation: "Of the dead, nothing but good." i.e., "Say only good things about the dead." Probably a translation from a Greek sentence by Chilon

    Deliriant isti Romani.
        Translation: "They are mad, those Romans!"; — René Goscinny, Asterix and Obelix comic
        Probably a reprise of an italian game of words "S.P.Q.R. - Sono Pazzi Questi Romani!" ("They are mad, those Romans")

    Deo Vindice.
        Translation: "[With] God as [our] protector" — motto of the Confederate States of America.

    Deo volente
        Translation: "God willing"

    Deorum iniuriae Diis curae.
        Translation: "Offences to the gods are the concern of the gods."

    Deserta faciunt et pacem appellant.
        Translation: "They create a desolation and they call it peace." - Tacitus

    Desinit in piscem mulier formosa superne.
        Translation: "The woman, beautiful above, ends in a fish tail." - Horace, Ars poetica

    Deus ex machina.
        Translation: "God out of a machine."

    Deus [lo] vult!
        Translation: "God wills it!," slogan of the Crusades.

    Dic, hospes, Spartae nos te hic vidisse iacentes, dum sanctis patriae legibus obsequimur.
        Translation: "Traveller, tell in Sparta that you saw us here where we rest, abiding by the sacred laws of the homeland." (Simonides of Ceos, translated by Cicero)

    Dictum sapienti sat est.
        "The said is enough for the wise" — understandable for a wise one without the need for explanations. Commonly "A word to the wise is sufficient." (Plautus), also as: sat sapienti and sapienti sat.

    Diem perdidi.
        Translation: "I lost the day" (Emperor Titus, passed down in Suetonius's biography ()

    Difficile est saturam non scribere
        Translation: "It is hard not to write satire." (Juvenal)

    Dis volentibus (diis volentibus)
        Translation: Gods willing, if the gods are willing

    Disce ut semper victurus, vive ut cras moriturus
        Translation: "Learn as if you will live forever, live as if you will die tomorrow."

    Divide et impera.
        Translation: "Divide and govern." Attributed to Julius Caesar.

    Do ut des
        Translation: I give, that you may give

    Docendo discimus.
        Translation: "We learn by teaching" (Seneca)

    Dominus Illuminatio Mea.
        Translation: "The Lord is my light," motto of Oxford University; Psalm 27.

    Donec eris felix multos numerabis amicos. / Tempora si fuerint nubila solus eris.
        Translation: "As long as you are happy, you will have many friends. / If times are becoming moggy you will be alone." (Ovid, Tristia I,9,5-6)

    Donec eris sospes, multos numerabis amicos. Tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris.
        Translation: "As long as you are wealthy, you will have many friends. When the tough times come, you will be left alone."

    Dosis facit venenum.
        Translation: "It is the dose that makes the poison."

    Ductus Exemplo
        Translation: "Lead by Example."

    Dulce enim etiam nomen est pacis.
        Translation: "The name 'peace' is sweet itself."

    Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
        Translation: "It is sweet and honorable to die for the fatherland." By Horace, Odes III, 2, 13, frequently quoted on war memorials, and notably in the poem Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen, who calls it "the old lie".

    Dum spiro, spero.
        Translation: "As long as I breathe, I hope." Translated as "While I breathe, I hope" the motto of the State of South Carolina [[1]]

    Dum vivimus, vivamus!
        Translation: "While we live, let us live!"

    Dum vita est, spes est.
        Translation: "While life is, hope is. / While there is life, there is hope."

    Dum vixi tacui, mortua dulce cano.
        Translation: "Living, I was mute, dead, I sweetly sing." (Found written on some musical instruments - especially keyboard ones. Refers to the tree the wood of which was used to make the instrument.)

    Duo cum faciunt idem, non est idem.
        Translation: "When two do the same, it isn't the same." (Terence)

    Duobus litigantibus, tertius gaudet.
        Translation: "While two men argue, the third one rejoices."

    Dura lex, sed lex.
        Translation: "The law is harsh, but it is the law."

    Dura necessitas.
        Translation: "Necessity is harsh."

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    E fructu arbor cognoscitur.
        Translation: "The tree can be recognized by its fruits."
        St. Ignatius of Loyola, paraphrasing Jesus Christ

    E mare libertas
        Translation: "From the sea, freedom"
        The motto of the self-proclaimed Principality of Sealand.

    E pluribus unum
        Translation: "Out of many, one"
        The motto of the United States of America, see wikipedia e pluribus unum on the origin of the phrase.

    Ego sum qui sum.
        Translation: "I am who I am."
        Holy Bible; Exodus 3:14

    Errare humanum est. Perseverare diabolicum.
        Translation: "To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil." (Seneca)

    Esse est percipi
        Translation: "To be is to be perceived", the doctrine of the Idealists, said by George Berkeley.

    Esse quam videri
        Translation: "To be, rather than to seem" (state motto of North Carolina)

    Estote parati
        Translation: "Be prepared" (Scout motto in Italy)

    "Et in perpetuum, frater, ave et vale."
        Translation: "And into eternity, brother, hail and farewell.", written by Catullus, mourning the death of his brother

    Et ipsa scientia potestas est.
        Translation: "And knowledge itself, is power" (Francis Bacon, Meditationes sacrae)

    Et nunc reges, intellegite erudimini qui iudicatis terram...
        Translation: "And now kings, be warned, you who judge on earth..." (Vulgate, Psalms 2:10)

    Eventus stultorum magister.
        Translation: "Events are the teacher of stupid persons." Stupid people learn by experience, bright people calculate what to do.

    Ex abundancia cordis, enim os loquitor.
        Translation: "From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks." Matthew 12:34.

    Ex astris, Scientia
        Translation: "From the stars, Knowledge" (the motto of Starfleet Academy in Star Trek, a variation on the motto of the Apollo 13, Ex luna, Scientia, "from the moon, knowledge".)

    Ex fructu arbor agnoscitur.
        Translation: "The tree is recognized by its fruit."
        Jesus Christ, translated by St. Jerome (Matthew 12:33, Vulgate)

    Ex Imperiis, Veritas
        Translation: "From Power, Truth" (the motto of the Scorpio Research Institute)

    Ex nihilo nihil fit
        Translation: "Nothing comes from nothing" (you need to work for something; also the Conservation Law in philosophy and modern science) (Lucretius). This is also a famous Shakespeare quote in King Lear.

    Ex oriente lux
        Translation: "Light from the east", i.e. 'From the East comes the light [i.e. culture]'

    Excusatio non petita, accusatio manifesta
        Translation: "Unwanted excuse implies/means manifest accusation"

    Excretus ex fortuna
        Translation: "Shit out of luck", Beggars' Guild motto in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
    Exegi monumentum aere perennius
        Translation: "I have built a monument more durable than bronze." (Horace, Odes III, 30, 1, of his poetry).

    Exitus acta probat
        Translation: "The results justify the deed", or "The ends justify the means".
        Ovid, Heroides (c. 10 BC). See also: Means and ends.

    Experto credite
        Translation: "Believe me, for I have experienced" (Virgil)

    Ex Sciencia Tridens
        Translation: "From knowledge, comes (sea) power." Motto of the United States Naval Academy

    Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus
        Translation: "Outside the Church there is no salvation"

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    "Frustra fit per plura quod fieri potest per pauciora"
        Translation: "It's a bad choice, to make with a lot of facilities, what can be made with less" . Ockham's razor
    Faber est suae quisque fortunae
        Translation: "Each is the maker (smith) of his own fortune." (Appius Claudius Caecus)

    Fabricando fit faber.
        Translation: "Practice makes perfect."

    Facilis descensus Averno
        Translation: "The descent to hell is easy."

    Fama crescit eundo
        Translation: "Rumors grow through circulation."

    Felicitas est parvus canis calidus."
        Translation: "Happiness is a warm puppy." from an early 1960's Peanuts comic strip by the late Charles Schultz

    Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere
        Translation: "Lucky [is the person] who could realize things" (variant of Virgil, Georgica 2, 490).

    Festina lente !
        Translation: "Make haste slowly" (i.e. proceed quickly but with caution, a motto of Augustus Caesar).

    Fiat iustitia et pereat mundus
        Translation: "Let justice be done, though the world perish" (Ferdinand I)

    Fiat iustitia ruat caelum
        Translation: "Let justice be done though the heavens fall."

    Fiat lux
        Translation: "Let there be light," motto of the University of California

    Fide, sed qui, vide.
        Translation: "Trust but take care whom."

    Finis coronat opus.
        Translation: "The end crowns the work."

    Flet victus, victor interiit.
        Translation: "The conquered moans, the conqueror is undone."

    Floreat Etona!
        Translation: "May Eton Flourish!" Motto of Eton College.

    Flores curat Deus.
        Translation: "God takes care of the flowers."

    Fluctuat nec mergitur
        Translation: "Shaken by the waves, but it will not sink" (inscription on Paris' coat of arms).

    Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit
        Translation: "Perhaps even this will one day be pleasant to look back on" from Virgil's Aeneid, possibly a translation from Aesop.

    Fortasse erit, fortasse non erit
        Translation: "Maybe it will be, maybe it will not"

    Fortes fortuna iuvat
        Translation: "Fortune favors the brave." (cf. Audaces fortuna iuvat.) (Terence)

    Fortis cadere, cedere non potest
        Translation: "A brave man may fall, but he cannot yield."

    Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo
        Translation: "Resolutely in deed, sweetly in manner"

    Fortuna est caeca
        Translation: "Fortune is blind." (Cicero)

    Fortuna amicos parat, inopia amicos probat.
        Translation: "Fortune is preparing friends, scarcity is in testing them."

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    "Frustra fit per plura quod fieri potest per pauciora"
        Translation: "It's a bad choice, to make with a lot of facilities, what can be made with less" . Ockham's razor
    Faber est suae quisque fortunae
        Translation: "Each is the maker (smith) of his own fortune." (Appius Claudius Caecus)

    Fabricando fit faber.
        Translation: "Practice makes perfect."

    Facilis descensus Averno
        Translation: "The descent to hell is easy."

    Fama crescit eundo
        Translation: "Rumors grow through circulation."

    Felicitas est parvus canis calidus."
        Translation: "Happiness is a warm puppy." from an early 1960's Peanuts comic strip by the late Charles Schultz

    Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere
        Translation: "Lucky [is the person] who could realize things" (variant of Virgil, Georgica 2, 490).

    Festina lente !
        Translation: "Make haste slowly" (i.e. proceed quickly but with caution, a motto of Augustus Caesar).

    Fiat iustitia et pereat mundus
        Translation: "Let justice be done, though the world perish" (Ferdinand I)

    Fiat iustitia ruat caelum
        Translation: "Let justice be done though the heavens fall."

    Fiat lux
        Translation: "Let there be light," motto of the University of California

    Fide, sed qui, vide.
        Translation: "Trust but take care whom."

    Finis coronat opus.
        Translation: "The end crowns the work."

    Flet victus, victor interiit.
        Translation: "The conquered moans, the conqueror is undone."

    Floreat Etona!
        Translation: "May Eton Flourish!" Motto of Eton College.

    Flores curat Deus.
        Translation: "God takes care of the flowers."

    Fluctuat nec mergitur
        Translation: "Shaken by the waves, but it will not sink" (inscription on Paris' coat of arms).

    Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit
        Translation: "Perhaps even this will one day be pleasant to look back on" from Virgil's Aeneid, possibly a translation from Aesop.

    Fortasse erit, fortasse non erit
        Translation: "Maybe it will be, maybe it will not"

    Fortes fortuna iuvat
        Translation: "Fortune favors the brave." (cf. Audaces fortuna iuvat.) (Terence)

    Fortis cadere, cedere non potest
        Translation: "A brave man may fall, but he cannot yield."

    Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo
        Translation: "Resolutely in deed, sweetly in manner"

    Fortuna est caeca
        Translation: "Fortune is blind." (Cicero)

    Fortuna amicos parat, inopia amicos probat.
        Translation: "Fortune is preparing friends, scarcity is in testing them."


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    Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres
        Translation: "The whole of Gaul is divided into three parts." (First sentence of C. Julius Caesar in "Commentarii de Bello Gallico")

    Gaudeamus igitur iuvenes dum sumus
        Translation: "Thus let us enjoy ourselves as long as we are young." (From an old German student's song. It is now regularely used in many different Universities, for example St-Andrews in Scotland)

    Gloria victis.
        Translation: "Glory to the defeated."

    Gloriosum est iniurias oblivisci.
        Translation: "It is glorious to forget injustice."

    Graeca fides, nulla fides
        Translation: "No one trusts a Greek (Greek honesty is no honesty)".

    Graeca sunt, non leguntur
        Translation: "They are Greek, and are not read". Similar to the expression "It's Greek to me"

    Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit, et artes intulit agresti Latio
        Translation: "Captive Greece captured her ferocious victor, and brought the arts into the rustic Latium" (Horace's "Epistulae")

    Gutta cavat lapidem
        Translation: "A drop hollows out the stone" (Ovid, Epistles)

    Gutta cavat lapidem non bis, sed saepe cadendo; sic homo fit sapiens non bis, sed saepe legendo.
        Translation: "A drop hollows out the stone by falling not twice, but many times; so too is a person made wise by reading not two, but many books." (Giordano Bruno, Il Candelaio)

    "Gutta cavat lapidem; consumitur annulus usu"
        Translation: A drop of water hollows out a stone; a ring is worn away by use. --Ovid


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    Habent sua fata libelli.
        Translation: "Books have their fate." (Terentianus Maurus)

    Habitus non facit monachum
        Translation: "A habit does not make a monk"

    Hannibal ad portas!
        Translations: "Hannibal before the gates!" Refers to the threat to Rome imposed by Hannibal's Italian campaign. Conveys a sense of greater distress than Hannibal ante portas, for ad suggests, unlike ante, a movement towards the gates. Cicero, Philippica I; Livius, Ab urbe condita XXIII It is used to refer to those who dither in times of great peril.

    Hannibal ante portas.
        Translation: "Hannibal before the gates." See above.

    Hic Rhodus, hic salta.
        Translation: "Here is Rhodos, jump here." Aesop (referring to someone who bragged about jumping a long distance "on Rhodos") in Greek: "?d?? ? ??d??, ?d?? ?a? t? p?d?µa"

    Hinc illae lacrimae.
        Translation: "Therefore these tears."

    Historia est vitae magistra.
        Translation: "History is the tutor of life."

    Hodie mihi, cras tibi.
        Translation: "What's to me today, tomorrow to you."

    Hominem, memento te.
        Translation: "[You are] a man, I remind you." Said by the slave holding the laurel leaves over the general's head in a Roman triumph. Its basic meaning was, "Don't presume, merely because you are dressed as an image of Mars and processing through the streets like the deity of a religious festival, that you really are a god."

    Homines quod volunt credunt.
        Translation: "Men believe what they want to." (Julius Caesar)

    Homo homini lupus est.
        Translation: "Man is a wolf to man." (Plautus)

    Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit
        Translation: "Man proposes, God disposes." (Thomas à Kempis)

    Homo sui iuris.
        Translation: "Man his own judge."

    Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
        Translation: "I am human, so nothing that is human is foreign to me." (Terence)

    Honores mutant mores.
        Translation: "Honors change behavior"

    Hora incerta, mors certa
        Translation: "Hour uncertain, death certain"

    Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae
        Translation: "Of all of those [the Gauls] the Belgians are the bravest" (Julius Caesar)

    Hypotheses non fingo.
        Translation: "I feign no hypotheses" (I do not assert that any hypotheses are true). Newton, Principia


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Note: I and J are the same letter in Latin.

    Iactura poucorum serva multos
        Translation: "Offer some to save many"

    Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum (INRI)
        Translation: "Jesus from Nazareth, King of Jews"

    Igitur si vis pacem, para bellum.
        Translation: "If you want peace prepare for war" (Vegetius, Epitoma rei militaris)
        Generally paraphrased as: Si vis pacem, para bellum

    Ignorantia iuris nocet
        Translation: "Being ignorant of law harms."

    Ignorantia legis non excusat
        Translation: "Ignorance of the law is no excuse."

    Ignoti nulla cupido
        Translation: "The unknown does not tempt."

    Imperare sibi maximum imperium est.
        Translation: "To rule yourself is the ultimate power." (Seneca) the older or the younger as not sure about who of the Seneca's I quote

    In Fidem
        Translation:"For confirmation, such as attestation" ( used in protocolls, juris diction)

    In Nuce
        Translation: "In a nutshell"

    INRI -Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum-
        Translation:Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews

    In cauda venenum
        Translation: "The poison is in the tail" (as in a scorpion) commonly said "Beware of which you cannot see.".

    In diem vivere
        Translation: "To live for the day"

    In dubio pro reo
        Translation: "When in doubt, in favour of the accused". (Corpus Juris Civilis)

    In hoc signo vinces
        Translation: "By this sign you will conquer" (Constantine's vision before the Battle of Milvian Bridge).

    In magnis voluisse sat est
        Translation: "In big things it's enough to just have the will."

    In medio stat virtus.
        Translation: "Virtue stands in the middle." Virtue is in the moderate, not the extreme position.

    In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas
        Translation: "In necessary things unity, in doubtful things liberty, in all things charity" (often misattributed to St Augustine).

    In omnia paratus
        Translation: "Ready for all things."

    In vino veritas.
        Translation: "Truth is in wine" That is, "Wine will bring out truth."

    In vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte.
        Translation: "Fleeing from error leads into fault if skill is lacking." Horace, De Arte Poetica

    Infinitus est numerus stultorum
        Translation: "Infinite is the number of fools" (Vulgate, Ecclesiastes 1:15).

    Inter arma enim silent leges (Musae).
        Translation: "During wars laws" (or "arts") "are silent." Cicero, Oratio Pro Annio Milone (IV)

    Inter caecos regnat strabo
        Translation: "Among blind people the squinting one rules." (Erasmus)

    Interdum dormitat bonus Homerus
        Translation: "Sometimes even the good Homer slumbers" (i.e. even the best of us makes mistakes); originally quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus, Horace, Ars Poetica

    Ira furor brevis est.
        Translation: "Anger is brief insanity" (Horace, epistles I, 2, 62).

    Is fecit, cui prodest.
        Translation: "Done by the one who profits from it."

    Iura novat curia.
        Translation: "The law is known to the court." This is the principle that it is the court's job to interpret the law, and the constitution.

    Iurare in verba magistri.
        Translation: "Swear by the words of the teacher."

    Iustitia omni auro carior.
        Translation: "Justice is more precious than all gold."

    Iustitia omnibus.
        Translation: "Justice for all.", motto of the District of Columbia.

    In lumine tuo, videbimus lumen.
        Translation: "In your light, we shall see light.", motto of Columbia University.


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The letter "k" was not commonly used in Classical Latin.

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"Latet enim veritas, sed nihil pretiosius veritate" Francisco Sanchez de las Brozas (Minerva I, 1, 40, 16).

        Translation: " Truth is hidden, anything its most beautiful that the truth"
    Labor omnia vincit.
        Translation: "Work conquers all things." Motto of the State of Oklahoma; Motto of Sydney Girls High School, Sydney, Australia; and Motto of Dannhauser Primary, Kwazulu Natal, Republic of South Africa, Motto of St. Xavier's Institution, Penang; Motto of Malanda State High School, Malanda, Queensland, Australia; Motto of St. Jago High School, Spanish Town, St. Catherine, Jamaica, and of the Unique High School, Dayrell's Road, Christ Church, Barbados.

    Laborare est orare.
        Translation: "To work is to pray." A common school motto.

    Lex et honor.
        Translation: "Law and honour." Motto of the Romanian police.

    Libertati viam facere.
        Translation: "Making a road to freedom."

    Licet volare si in tergo aquilae volat.
        Translation: "A man can fly if he wishes, if he rides on the back of an eagle."

    Lucus a non lucendo
        Translation: "The word for grove is lucus because it is not light [non lucet] in a grove." Used as an example of absurd etymology.

    Luctor et emergo
        Translation: "I struggle and arise." Motto of the Dutch province Zeeland.

    Lupus in fabula.
        Translation: "A wolf in the story." Said about someone who has just appeared and it was talked about him.

    Lux et veritas.
        Translation: "Light and truth." School motto of [Yale University],Indiana University.

    Lux sit.
        Translation: "Let there be light." School motto of University of Washington.


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    Macte animo! Generose puer sic itur ad astra!
        Translation: "Be strong, young man! Through this way one gets to the stars." (Motto of the Brazilian Air Force Academy)

    Major e longinquo reverentia
        Translation: "Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful." Tacitus, annals 1,47

    Mala herba cito crescit
        Translation: "Weeds grow fast."

    Mala malus mala mala dat
        Translation: "A bad apple tree gives bad apples" ("Evil begets evil")

    Mali principii malus finis.
        Translation: "The bad end of a bad beginning."
    Malum consilium quod mutari non potest.
        Translation: "It is a bad plan that cannot be changed (A plan that cannot be changed is a bad one)."

    Malum quidem nullum esse sine aliquo bono.
        Translation: "There is, to be sure, no evil without something good."

    Manus manum lavat
        Translation: "One hand washes the other."

    Mater artium necessitas.
        Translation: "Necessity is the mother of invention" (Apuleius)

    Maxima debetur puero reverentia
        Translation: "One owes the greatest possible care for the child" (Juvenal)
    Mea Culpa
        Translation: "My fault" /"I am the one to blame"

    Medicus curat, natura sanat
        Translation: "The doctor cares [for his patient], nature heals [him]." or "Doctor cures, nature saves"

    Medio tutissimus ibis
        Translation: "In the middle shall you walk the safest" i.e. the middle path is the safest one (Ovid)

    Melior morior bellator, quam ago profugus.
        Translation: "Better to die fighting man, how to spend time fleeing", meaning "Better to die fighting, than live fleeing." often quoted as "Better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees."

    Memento audere semper.
        Translation: "remember to be always daring", meaning that you should make an effort and do not mind that you make a mistake.

    Memento mori.
        Translation: "Remember you will die".
    Memento Vivere
        Translation: "Remember to live."

    Mens sana in corpore sano.
        Translation: "A sound mind in a sound body" (Juvenal)

    Montani Semper Liberi
        Translation: "Mountaineers are Always Free" — Motto of the U.S. State of West Virginia

    Morituri te salutant
        Translation: "Those who are about to die greet you." (traditional greeting of the gladiators prior to battle; passed on by Suetonius, Claudius 21). (Morituri te salutamus would express "We who are about to die greet you.")
        See also: Ave Caesar! Morituri te salutant!

    Mors Certa, Vita Incerta
        Translation: "Death is certain, life is not."

    Mortui vivos docent
        Translation: "The dead teach the living."

    Mulier est hominis confusio.
        Translation: "Woman is man's ruin."
        "Part of a comic definition of woman" from the Altercatio Hadriani Augusti et Secundi.[2] Famously quoted by Chauntecleer in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

    Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.
        Translation: "The world desires to be deceived; therefore it is" (Attributed to Petronius)

    Munit haec et altera vincit.
        Translation: "One defends and the other conquers" (motto of Nova Scotia.)


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