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Hic scientia finit: Knowledge Stops Here.
Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturae judicia confirmat.
Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
[Lat., Majorum gloria posteris lumen est, neque bona neque mala in occulto patitur.]
Que bonito es el mundo; Lastima es que yo me muera." "How beautiful is the world; It's a pity that I must die.
La Closerie, in Ansouis.
Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.
(Whatever advice you give, be brief.)
Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith
Nemo Iudex in causa propia est
No one is a judge in his own case
There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it.
[It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]
I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals.
[Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem.
Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]
Nemo est qui tibi sapientius suadere possit te ipso: numquam labere, si te audies.
(Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you'll never go wrong.)
Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower.
[Lat., Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona. Carpite florem.]
As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)
Serva me, servabo te. Save me and I will save you.
The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants.
[Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
A dis plura feret.]
But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
[Lat., Sed profecto Fortuna in omni re dominatur; ea res cunctas ex lubidine magis, quam ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque.]
It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man."
[Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]
Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase.
[Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]
This is a world of the hunters and the hunted, signorina. Tonight you are the prey and I am the hunter!
Let the die be cast.
[Lat., Jacta alea esto; or, jacta esa alea.)
If you spend a thing you can not have it.
[Lat., Non tibi illud apparere si sumas potest.]
Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).
Now drown care in wine.
[Lat., Nunc vino pellite curas.]
Lex malla, lex nulla. A bad law is no law.
The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.
[It., Lo tuo ver dir m'incuora
Buona umilta e gran tumor m'appiani.]
Luceo Non Uro. 'I shine, not burn,
This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.
Habit is overcome by habit.
[Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]
Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
[Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]
Como un angel," I whisper.
"Is our game over?" she asks nervously.
"It's definitely over, querida. 'Cause what we're gonna do next is no game.
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
(Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.)
Macho does not prove mucho.
Nothing is so high and above all danger that is not below and in the power of God.
[Lat., Nihil ita sublime est, supraque pericula tendit
Non sit ut inferius suppositumque deo.]
Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)
A just fortune awaits the deserving.
[Lat., Fors aequa merentes
Respicit.]
Corruptio optimi pessima." The corruption of the best things are the worst things.
Cogito, ergo sum" - I think, therefore I am.
Si vis pacem, para bellum - If you want peace, prepare for war.
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour.
[Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]
In Mexico today the word for the ultimate, the best in anything from a straight flush to the sight of beautiful country, is a todo madre, something which is 'wholly mother'.
He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another's experience.
[Lat., Feliciter sapit qui alieno periculo sapit.]
Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa."
"What does it mean?"
"You're beautiful.
The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse.
[Lat., Fortuna miserrima tuta est:
Nam timor eventus deterioris abest.]
The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.
In a moment comes either death or joyful victory.
[Lat., Horae
Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
O tempora! O mores!
O what times (are these)! what morals!
I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home.
[Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]
Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur(nothing moves without having been moved).
Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
Decisive is definite.
Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is.
Mientras mas honda la herida,
Es mi canto mas hermoso.
While more deeper is the wound
The more beautiful the art.
Vera incessu patuit dea.
(The goddess indubitable was revealed in her step.)
The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.
PS. Docendo discimus. (Latin. By teaching, we learn.)
Ridendo dicere severum. (<>trong>trtrong>. Through what is laughable say what is somber.)
A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things.
[Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]
In their palate alone is their reason of existence.
[Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]
Pro medicina est dolor, dolorem qui necat."
"The pain that kills pain acts as medicine," Win translated.
"That would make sense only to a Roma," Amelia said, and Cam grinned.
How wretched are the minds of men, and how blind their understandings.
[Lat., O miseras hominum menteis! oh, pectora caeca!]
We do not counterfeit his own signature, but his nature. (On ne contrefait sa propre - Signature, mais sa nature.)
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (Thus passes the glory of the world).
Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men.
[Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae,
Noctis habent.]
Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin.
Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
[Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum
Deseruit pede poena claudo.]
This signior is sound, safe, ready, and dumb
As ever was candle, carrot, or thumb;
Then away with these nasty devices, and show
How you rate the just merits of Signior Dildo.
Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.
He who talks much cannot always talk well.
[It., Chi parla troppo non puo parlar sempre bene.]
Cruor pectoris mei, tutela tua est!
Blood of my heart, protection is thine!
We take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, and that one cannot make an indication without drawing a distinction. We take therefore the form of distinction for the form.
Cedo nulli. Latin for "I yield to no one.
Exitus Acta Probat---the outcome justifies the deed.
If anything affects your eye, you hasten to have it removed; if anything affects your mind, you postpone the cure for a year.
[Lat., Quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid
Est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum.]
Trust the expert. -Experto credite
A sign is always less than the thing it points to, and a symbol is always more than we can understand at first sight. Therefore we stop at the sign but go on to the goal it indicates; but we remain with the symbol because it promises more than it reveals.
Ratio et prudentia curas,
Non locus effusi late maris arbiter, aufert.
[it is reason and wisdom which take away cares, not places affording wide views over the sea.]
Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est
The event, in its emergence, poses its own premises, determining that they were the conditions for its realization. This transition is always the result of a salto mortale, which is a creative act in the sense that it gives the preceding links in the chain of events their meaning.
By wine eating cares are put to flight.
[Lat., Vino diffugiunt mordaces curae.]
Si Vis Pacem, Para Iustitiam: In order to have peace, you must first have justice.
A fool is he that comes to preach or prate,
When men with swords their right and wrong debate.
[It., Chi conta i colpi e la dovuta offesa,
Mentr' arde la tenzon, misura e pesa?]
Artists show us what we blind to.
Baris Gencel
Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.
The sign of vigour, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, the sign of everything that is good, is strength. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, [and strength] in the hand.
Fallaces sunt rerum speciaes. The appearances of things are deceptive.
It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate.
[Lat., Saepe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.]
The very life which we enjoy is short.
[Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]
Pro te, milies aeterno. He placed my hand on his heart. And that means? For you, a thousand times eternity.
Date un regalo giornaliero: "capire ognuno."
Give a daily gift: "understand one another.
Everything's better when you say it in Latin.Latin-- Holly Black
Con esperanza no se come. Hope does not get you anything to eat.
Good-bye to the lies of the poets.
[Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]
Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune.
[Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]
Noli me tangere; for Caesar's I am.
quod erat demonstrandum, which is Latin for which is the thing that was going to be proved, which means thus it is proved.
Those very superficial sensualists and profligates who lead the dance of Latin decadence have not seen, among their dancing girls and their pennies, that the disappearance of symbols was a precursor to the ruin of a people; communities only have abstract reasons for existing...
Scio me nihil scire" - I know that I know nothing
Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent?
[Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]
Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum. (To such heights of evil are men driven by religion.)