FAMOUS LATIN QUOTAIONS AND PROVERBS

ENGLISH                       LATIN     

"From the egg to the          ab ovo usquw ad mala
 apples" (=our "From
 the soup to the nuts")

"The die is cast"             alea jacta est
                                   Julius Caesar

"Love conquers all and let    amor vincit omnia et nos
 us yield to love"             cedamus amori
                                   Vergil

"To make a citadel out of a   arcem ex cloaca facere
 sewer" (=our "To make a           Cicero
 mountain out of a molehill")

"I sing of arms and the man"  arma virumque cano
 (the first words of the           Vergil
 Aeneid)

"It is art to conceal art"    ars est celare artem
                                   Ovid

"Art is long but life is      ars longa, vita brevis
 short"                            Hippocrates
                                   (originally in Greek)

"The golden mean"             aurea mediocritas
                                   Horace

"A woman either loves or      aut amat aut odit mulier:
 hates: there is no third      nihil est tertium
 possibility:                      Publilius Syrus

"Farwell, Caesar, they who    ave, Caesar, morituri te
 are about to die salute      salutant
 you"                              Gladiators Farwell

"Seize the day, thrusting as  carpe diem, quam minimum
 little as possible to         credula postero
 tomorrow"                         Horace

"Beware of the dog"           cave canem

"I think therfore I am"       cogito ergo sum
                                   Descartes

"Who benifits?"               cui bono?
                                   Cicero

"One must not argue about     de gustibus non est
 matters of taste"             disputandum

"Carthage must be             delenda est Carthago
 destroyed"                        Cato the Elder

"Speak nothing but good       de mortuis nihil nisi bonum
 about the dead"

"We learn by teaching"        docendo discimus

"He who is well begun is      dimidium facti qui bene
 half done"                    coepit habet
                                   Horace

"It is a sweet and fitting    dulce et decorum est pro
 thing to die for one's        partia mori
 country"                          Horace

"A woman is the leader of     dux femina facti
 the dead"                         Vergil

"To err is human"             errare est humanum

"You, too, Brutus?"           Et, tu, Brute?
                                   Shakespeare

"I have built a monument      exigi monumentum aere
 more lasting than bronze"     perennius
                                   Horace

"Make haste slowly"           festina lente
                                   A motto of the
                                   Emperor Augustus

"Perhapse it will be a        forsan et haec olim
 plesure to remember           meminesse iuvabit
 even these things some            Vergil
 day"

"Fortune helps the brave"     fortes fortuna adiuvat

"Therefore let us rejoice     gaudeamus igitur iuvenes
 while we are young"           dum sumus
                                   German student song

"This is the task, this the"  hoc opus, hic labor est
 labor"                            Vergil

"I am human: I consider       homo sum: humani nihil a
 nothing human to be           me alienum puto
 alien to me"                      Terence

"It is more to laugh at       humanius est deridere vitam
 life than to lament it"       quam deplorare
                                   Seneca

"In this sign you will        In hoc signo vinces
 conquer"                          Emperor Constantine

"To stand between the axe     inter sacrum saxumque
 and the altar" (=our          stare
 "between a rock and a hard        Platus
  place")

"In wine there is truth"      in vino veritas

"Work conquers all"           labor omnia vincit
 (and not, as a Latin stu-         Vergil
 dent once translated it,
 "Work will kill anybody")

"A snake is hiding in the     latet anguis in herba
 grass"                            Vergil

"The hand washes the hand"    manus manem lavat
 (=our "One good turn
 deserves another)

"Remember that you will       memento mori
 die"

"A sound mind in a sound      mens sana in corpore sano
 body"                             Juvenal

"Every lover is a soldier"    militat omnis amans
                                   Ovid

"Nothing is completely        nihil est ab omni parte
 fortunat"                     beatum
                                   Horace

"Nothing is new under the     nihil novi sub sole
 sun"                              Ecclesiastes

"Nothing is difficult for     nil mortalibus ardui est
 humans"                           Horace

"Life has given nothing to    nil sine vita labore
 humans without great          dedit mortalibus
 labor"                            Horace

"Too much familiarity         nimia familiartas parit
 breeds contempt"              contemptum

"Life is nothing but          non est vivere, sed valere
 living well"                  vita est
                                   Martial

"We can't all do everything"  non omnia possumus
                               omnes
                                   Vergil

"I don't live to eat,         non ut edam vivo, sed ut
 but eat to live"              vivam edo
                                   Quintilian

"We learn not for life but    non vitae sed scholae
 for school"                   discimus
                                   Seneca

"Now let us drink!"           nunc est bibendum
                                   Horace

"I love and I hate"           odi est amo
                                   Catullus

"He has everybody's           omne tulit punctum qui
 approval who mixes the        miscuit utile dulci
 useful with the sweet"            Horace

"In every sense a man of      omnis Minervae homo
 Minerva" (=our "A Jack            Petronius
of all trades")

"Oh the times!  Oh the        o tempora!  o mores!
 habits!"                          Cicero

"Bread and circuses"          panem et circenses
                                   Juvenal

"Equals assiciate most        pares cum paribus facillime
 easily with equals"           congregantur
 (=our "Birds of a                 Cicero
        feather flock
        together"

"Mountains will be in labor   parturient montes, nascetur
 and a ridiculas mouse will    ridiculus mus
 be born" (=our "all that          Horace
                 work and
                 nothing to
                 show for it" 

"They can because they        possunt qui posse videntur
 think they can"                   Vergil

"Sometimes good Homer         quandoque bonus dormitat
 nods"                         Homerus
                                   Vergil

"He who says too much to      qui nimius multis "non
 lots of people that he        amo" dicet, amat
 is not in love, is in             Ovid
 love"

"Who will guard the guards    quis custodiet ipsos
 themselves?"                  custodes?
                                   Juvenal

"He who hates vices,          quis vitia odit, hominus odit
 hates men"                        Pliney the Younger

"There are as many            quot homines, tot sententiae
 oppinions as there are            Torrence
 men"

"In the meentime irretriv-    sed fugit interea, fugit
 able time fees"               inreparabile tempus
                                   Vergil

"without anger or prejudice"  sine ira et studio
                                   Tacitus

"If you want me to weep,      si vis me flere, dolendum
 you yourself must grieve      est primum ipsi tibi
 first"                            Horace

"So passes away the glory     sic transit gloria mundi
 of the world"                     Thomas A. Kempis

"They come to see, they       spectatum veniunt, veniunt
 come that they them-          spectentur ut ipsae
 selves may be seen"               Ovid

"The most law, the least      summuus ius, summa iniuria
 justice"                          Cicero

"There are tears for          sunt lacrimae rerum
misfortune"                        Vergil

"To each, his own"            suum cuique
                                   Cicero

"Religion can inspire such    tantum religio poruit suadere
 evil things"                  malorum
                                   Lucretius

"The one salvation for the    una salus victis nullam
 defeated is to hope for       sperare salutem
 no salvation"                     Vergil

"Experience is the best       usus est magister optimus
 teacher"

"A poem is like a picture"    ut pictura poesis
                                   Horace

"Woman is a fickle and        varium et mutabile semper
 changable thing"              femina
                                   Vergil

"I came, I saw, I conquered"  vini, vidi, vici
                                   Julius Caesar

"A word to the wise is        verbum sat sapienti
 sufficient"
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