Latin Sayings

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Contra verbosos noli contendere verbis: Sermo datur cunctis, animi sapientia paucis.

Dionysus Cato

Don’t debate with needlessly wordy people: speech is given to many people, but wisdom of the soul to just a few.

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Virtutis enim laus omnis in actione constitit.

Cicero

For all the good of virtue lies in action.

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sera nimis vita est crastina. vive hodie.

Martialis

A life tomorrow is too late. Live today.

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vestras spes uritis.

Vergilius

You burn your own hopes.

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Nihil aliud esse ebrietatem quam voluntariam insaniam

Seneca (Letter LXXXIII: On Drunkenness, line 18)

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

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Nos enim ne nunc quidem oculis cernimus ea, quae videmus.

Cicero

Even now we do not perceive with our eyes the things we see.

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Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis.

Ovidius

The times slip by, we grow old through silent years.

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Omnia fert aetas, animum, quoque.

Vergilius (Ecloga IX)

Time carries all away, the soul, too.

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o tantum libeat mecum tibi sordida rura atque humilis habitare casas et figere cervos haedorumque gregem viridi compellere hibisco!

Vergilius (Ecloga II)

How lovely it would be: you, with me in the poor countryside,

living in humble homes and hunting deer,

driving our goats towards green mallows.

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Dum differtur, vita transcurrit,

Seneca

Life speeds by while it’s being postponed.

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ulterius ne tende odiis.

Vergilius

Don’t press further towards hatred.

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Fata viam invenient.

Vergilius

The fates will find a way.

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Oneravitque aethera votis.

Vergilius

And he burdens heaven with vows.

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Oceanum interea surgens Aurora reliquit.

Vergilius

Meanwhile rising dawn leaves behind the ocean.

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Cum minime videamur, tum maxime philosophabamur.

Cicero

When it seemed like I wasn’t philosophizing, then, I was philosophizing the most.

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quo referemus enim? quid nobis certius ipsis sensibus esse potest, qui vera ac falsa notemus?

Lucretius

For where are we to turn? What could be more certain to us

than our senses, we who observe true and false?

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Quo meas lacrimas feram?

Seneca

Where am I to carry my tears?