Latin Quotations 7

Front 1

Gloria virtutem tamquam umbra sequitur

Back 1

CICERO
(Glory follows virtue as a shadow does)

Front 2

Multi famam, conscientiam pauci verentur

Back 2

PLINY
(Many fear rumor, few fear conscience)

Front 3

Nemo regere potest nisi qui et regi

Back 3

SENECA
(No one can govern who cannot also be governed)

Front 4

Primus in orbe deos fecit timor

Back 4

STATIUS
(Fear first in the world created the gods)

Front 5

Divina natura dedit agros; ars humana aedificavit urbes

Back 5

VARRO
(Divine nature gave the fields; human skill built the cities)

Front 6

Tristis eris si solus eris

Back 6

OVID
(You will be sad if you are alone)

Front 7

Qui prior stinxerit, eius victoria erit

Back 7

LIVY
(Victory will be his who first draws the sword)

Front 8

Contra verbosos noli contendere verbis

Back 8

DIONYSIUS CATO
(Against the wordy, do not contend with words)

Front 9

Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum

Back 9

VEGETIUS
(Let his who desires peace prepare for war)

Front 10

Rapiamus, amici, occasionem de die

Back 10

HORACE
(My friends, let us seize the opportunity from the day)

Front 11

Non ut edam, vivo; sed ut vivam, edo

Back 11

QUINTILIAN
(I live, not to eat, but I eat to live)

Front 12

Se tacuisses, philosophus mansisses

Back 12

BOETHIUS
(If you had been silent, you would have remained a philosopher)

Front 13

Oderint, dum metuant

Back 13

ACCIUS
(Let them hate, provided they fear me)

Front 14

Iniurarium remedium est oblivio

Back 14

PUBLILIUS SYRUS
(The cure for wrongs is forgetfulness)

Front 15

Legum omnes servi sumus ut leberi esse possimus

Back 15

CICERO
(We are all servants of the law in order that we can be free)

Front 16

Nemo timendo ad summum pervenit locum

Back 16

PUBLILIUS SYRUS
(No man by fearing reaches the highest place)

Front 17

Hominis mens discendo alitur et cogitando

Back 17

CICERO
(The mind of man is nourished by learning and thinking)

Front 18

Nihil sine ratione faciendum est

Back 18

SENECA
(Nothing should be done without reason)

Front 19

Non scholae sed vitae discimus

Back 19

SENECA
(Not for school, but for life we learn)

Front 20

..hae tibi erunt artes: pacique imponere morem, parcere subiectis, et debellare superbos

Back 20

VERGIL
(these shall be your arts; to impose the conditions of peace, to spare those who have been subdued and to conquer the proud)

Front 21

omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis

Back 21

OVID
(all things are subject to change, and we change with them.)

Front 22

natura abhorret vacuum

Back 22

DESCARTES
(nature abhors a vacuum)

Front 23

non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere qua re: hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te

Back 23

MARTIAL
(I don't like you, Sabidius, and I cannot say why: all I can say is, I don't like you)

Front 24

carpe viam

Back 24

VERGIL
(Seize the way)

Front 25

prima urbes inter, divum domus, aurea Roma

Back 25

AUSONIUS
(first amont cities, home of the gods, golden Rome)

Front 26

peior est bello timor ipse belli

Back 26

SENECA
(worse than war is the very fear of war)

Front 27

urbem...excoluit adeo, ut iure sit gloriatus maroream se relinquere, quam latericiam accepisset

Back 27

SUETONIUS
(He made so many inprovements in Rome, he could rightly boast that he found it brick and left it marble.)

Front 28

vivas ut possis quando nec quis ut velis

Back 28

CAECILIUS
(live as you can since you cannot live as you would)

Front 29

O fortunatam natam me consule Romam!

Back 29

CICERO
(fortunate Rome born in my consulship!)

Front 30

non omnia possum omnes

Back 30

VERGIL
(we cannot all do all things)

Front 31

ab exiguis pro fecta initiis eo creverit ut iam magnitudine laboret sua

Back 31

LIVY
(Rome has grown so since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness)

Front 32

ego primim tollo, nominor quoniam leo

Back 32

PHAEDRUS
(I'll help myself firstt name is lion

Front 33

deus est mortali iuvare mortalem

Back 33

PLINY THE ELDER
(???)

Front 34

numquam autem recte faciet, qui cito credit, uitque homo negotians

Back 34

PETRONIUS
(a man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman)

Front 35

omne ignotum pro magnifico est

Back 35

TACITUS
(the unknown always passes for the marvelous)

Front 36

ego si risi quod ineptus pastillos Rufillus olet, Gargonius hircum, lividus et mordax videar?

Back 36

HORACE
(If i smile at the stong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natured?

Front 37

res rustica sic est: si unam rem sero feceris, omnia opera sero facies

Back 37

CATO
(This is how it is with farming: if you put off doing one thing, you will be late with everything.)

Front 38

Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque

Back 38

ENNIUS
(on ancient ways and heroes stands the Roman state.)