Sunday, April 21, 2013

A few Latin Quotes


Omnia mea mecum porto - All that is mine, I carry with me. (Cicero)

Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere - To accept a favour is to sell freedom. (Publilius Syrus)


Cogito Ergo Sum "I think, Therefore I am"


"Qui desiderat pacem, bellum praeparat; nemo provocare ne offendere audet quem intelliget superiorem esse pugnaturem". (Whosoever desires peace prepares for war; no one provokes, nor dares to offend, those who they know know to be superior in battle.)


Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati

"When all else fails, play dead."


Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc

-Addams Family Motto

[We gladly feast on those who would subdue us]


ex nihilio nihil fit - nothing comes from nothing

amor vincit omnia - love conquers all

"Ave Atque vale"

Hail and Farewell!


Alea jacta est! (= The die is cast!)

- what Caesar said when he crossed the Rubicon.


Nosce te ipsum - Know thyself.


Semper ubi sub ubi - Always where under where


oderint dum metuant- let them hate provided that they fear

dum spiro, spero - while I breathe, I hope

nascentes morimur - from the moment we are born, we die

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