latin phrases worth knowing:
(in case you wanted to know because i fucking love this language)
- ad astra per aspera - to the stars through difficulties
- alis volat propriis - he flies by his own wings
- amantium irae amoris integratio est - the quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love
- ars longa, vita brevis - art is long, life is short
- aut insanity homo, aut versus facit - the fellow is either mad or he is composing verses
- dum spiro spero - while I breathe, I hope
- ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem - with the sword, she seeks peace under liberty
- exigo a me non ut optimus par sim sed ut malis melior - I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better than the bad
- experiential docet - experience teaches
- helluo librorum - a glutton for books (bookworm)
- in libras libertas - in books, freedom
- littera scripta manet - the written letter lasts
- mens regnum bona possidet - an honest heart is a kingdom in itself
- mirabile dictu - wonderful to say
- nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - there is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part
- omnia iam fient quae posse negabam - everything which I used to say could not happen, will happen now
- poeta nascitur, non fit - the poet is born, not made
- qui dedit benificium taceat; narrat qui accepit - let him who has done a good deed be silent; let him who has received it tell it
- saepe ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit - often, it is not advantageous to know what will be
- sedit qui timuit ne non succederet - he who feared he would not succeed sat still
- si vis pacem, para bellum - if you want peace, prepare for war
- struit insidias lacrimis cum feminia plorat - when a woman weeps, she is setting traps with her tears
- sub rosa - under the rose
- trahimir omnes laudis studio - we are led on by our eagerness for praise
- urbem latericium invenit, marmoream reliquit - he found the city a city of bricks; he left it a city of marble
- ut incepit fidelis sic permanet - as loyal as she began, so she remains