Latin Phrases
Here you will find an comprehensive collection of latin phrases.
Ab imo pectore
With all my heart – Lucretius
Ab ovo
From the egg (the Leda) on / From the beginning – Horace
Ad absurdum
Prove something as nonsense
Aequis aequus
Right to the righteous – Emperor Leopold of Habsburg
Alea iacta est
The die has been cast – Gaius Julius Caesar
Aliquid stat pro aliquo
Something stands for something
Ama et fac quod vis!
Love and do what you want! – Augustine
Amantes amentes
Lovers are out of their minds – Terence
Amici, diem perdidi
Friends, I have lost a day – Emperor Titus Flavius
Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur
You can recognize a reliable friend in an uncertain situation – Cicero
Amor est pretiosior auro
Love is more precious than gold
An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur?
Don’t you know, my son, how little sense the world is run with? – Cardinal Richelieu
Audaces fortuna adiuvat
Fortune favours the brave
Audemus jura nostra defendere
We dare to defend our rights
Audere est facere
To dare is to do it
Audi, vide, tace
Hear, see and be silent
Audiatur et altera pars
Listen to the other side
Aut Caesar aut nihil
Either Caesar or nothing – Cesare Borgia
Barba decet virum
The beard makes a man
Barbarus hic ergo sum, quia non intellegor ulli
A barbarian I am here, since I am understood by no one – Ovid
Bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria nube
Wars may be fought by others, you, happy Austria, marry – Habsburg
Bene docet, qui bene distinguit
A good teacher is one who clearly explains the differences
Bis dat, qui cito dat
He who gives quickly gives twice – Publilius Syrus
Bis repetita non placent
Repetitions do not please – Horace
Bona fides
The Good Faith
Caritas omnia potest
Love can do everything
Caritas omnia tolerat
Love endures all
Carpe diem!
Seize the day! – Horace
Carpe Noctem!
Seize the night! – Horace
Causa
Legal basis
Causa finita
The case is closed
Cave canem!
Beware of the dog!
Ceterum censeo carthaginem esse delendam
By the way, I am of the opinion that Carthage must be destroyed – Senator Marcus Porcius Cato
Citius, altius, fortius
Faster, higher, stronger – Olympic Games
Cogito, ergo sum
I think, so I am – Descartes
Contraria contrariis curantur!
Opposite is healed with opposite! – Hippocrates
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges
The more corrupt the state, the more laws it has – Tacitus
Cui honorem, honorem
Honour to whom honour is due – Paul
De gustibus non est disputandum
You can’t argue about taste
De jure
By law/legally considered
De mortuis nihil nisi bene!
Only good things about the dead! – Diogenes
Deficiente pecu, deficit omne, nia
If the bag lacks cash, there’ s a shortage of everything.
Deus ex machina
The god from the machine – Plato
Diem perdidi!
I have lost a day – Emperor Titus
Dies ater
A black day – Marcus Verrius Flaccus
Dies diem docet
One day teaches the other – Publilius Syrus
Difficile est saturam non scribere
It is difficult not to write satire about it – Juvenal
Divide et impera!
Divide and rule!
Docendo discimus
Through teaching we learn
Dosis facit venenum
The dose makes the poison – Paracelsus
Dum differtur, vita transcurrit
While you put it off, life goes by
Dum excusare credis, accusas
While you think you’re apologizing, you accuse yourself – Jerome
Dum spiro spero
As long as I draw breath, I hope – Cicero
Duo quum faciunt idem, non est idem
When two people do the same thing, it’s not the same
Duobus certantibus tertius gaudet
When two quarrel, the third is rejoicing
Ecce homo!
Look at the man!
Effugere non potes necessitates, potes vincere!
You cannot avoid the compulsions, you can defeat them – Seneca
Eheu, fucaces labuntur anni!
Oh, how the years fly by! – Horace
Epistula non erubescit
The letter does not blush – Cicero
Ergo bibamus!
So let’s drink! – Pope Martin IV
Errare humanum est
To err is human – Cicero
Etiam tacere est respondere
Silence is also an answer
Ex iniuria ius non oritur
No right arises from injustice
Ex nihilo nihil fit
From nothing nothing can come
Exercitatio artem parat
Practice makes perfect
Experto credite
Take it from someone who’s tried it! – Virgil, Aeneid
Expressis verbis
With the exact words
Extra ecclesiam nulla salus
Outside the church no salvation – Catholic principle of law
Faber est suae quisque fortunae
Everyone is the maker of his own fortune – Appius Claudius Caecus
Facta, non verba
Actions, not words
Fama crescit eundo
The rumor grows as it spreads
Fames est optimus coquus
Hunger is the best cook
Fas est et ab hoste doceri
Learning from the enemy is also right – Ovid
Fata viam invenient
Fate finds its way – Virgil, Aeneid
Favete linguis!
Guard your tongues! – Horace
Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas
Happy those who succeeded in understanding the reason for things – Vergil
Fiat iustitia et pereat mundus
Let justice be done, even if the world perishes because of it – Emperor Ferdinand I
Fiat lux
Let there be light
Finis coronat opus
The end crowns the work – Ovid
Fortes fortuna adiuvat
Fortune helps the brave – Terenz
Greaca sunt non leguntur
Is it Greek, don’t read it
Gutta cavat lapidem non vi sed saepe cadendo
The drop does not hollow the stone by force, but by constant falling – Ovid
Habent sua fata libell
Books have their fates – Terentianus Maurus
Hannibal ad portas
Hannibal in front of the gates
Homines sumus, non dei!
We are humans, not gods! – Petronius
Homo homini lupus est
Man is a wolf to man – Titus Maccius Plautus
Horas non numero nisi serenas
I only count the cheerful hours
Iam tempus illi fecit aerumnas leves!
Time has already relieved his grief – Seneca
Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum (INRI)
Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews
Ignoramus et ignorabimus
We do not know and we will never know – Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond
Ignorantia iuris nocet
Ignorance is no excuse
Imago est animi vultus
The face is an image of the soul – Cicero
In dubio pro reo
In case of doubt for the defendant
In flagranti
In the act
In magnis et voluisse sat est
With great things it is also enough to have wanted them – Properz
In manu illius plumbium aurum fiebat
In his hand even lead became gold – Petronius
In omnem eventum
For all cases
In principio erat verbum
In the beginning was the Word – John
In sucum et sanguinem
Going into flesh and blood – Cicero
In verba magistri iurare
Swear on the Master’s words – Horace
In vino veritas
In wine lies the truth – Alkaios of Lesbos
In vite vita
There is life in the grapevine
Iniqua numquam regna perpetuo manent
Unjust empires never last forever – Seneca
Istud, quod tu summum putas, gradus est
What you think is the summit is merely a step – Seneca
Ita diis placuit
As the gods pleased! – Luke
Ius summum saepe summa est malitia
The highest right is often the highest malice
Iustitia est constans et perpetua voluntas ius suum cuique tribuendi
Justice is the persistent and constant will to give everyone his right – Ulpianus
Iustititia est fundamentum regni
Justice is the foundation of the empire – Emperor Franz I of Austria
Labor omnia vincit
Work conquers all Unceasing toil conquers all, accomplishes all - Virgil
Lege artis
By all the rules of art
Lege et fide
By law - principle of law
Lege vindice
Under the protection of the law - legal principle
Legi intellexi condemnavi
I read, I understood, I condemned (I have read, I have understood, I have condemned) -
Julian
Legibus solutus
Released from the laws - principle of law
Lex dubia non obligat
A doubtful law does not bind - legal principle
Licentia poetica
Poetic freedom - Seneca (c. 1 - 65)
Loco citato
At (already) cited place, at the cited place
Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla
Long is the way by teaching, short and efficacious by example - Seneca Junior, 6 Epist.
Ludit in humanis divina potentia rebus
In the human the divine omnipotence plays - Ovid
Lupus in fabula
The wolf in the fable - Terence
Magis prodesse quam praeesse
To benefit more than to rule - Benedictus of Nursia
Magnum vectigal est parsimonia
Saving is a good revenue - Cicero
Mala fide Bad faith
Against one's better knowledge - legal principle
Male parta, male dilabuntur
As gained, so lost (Literally: Evilly acquired things come to an evil end)
Malum est consilium, quod mutari non potest!
The plan that cannot be changed is bad! also: Bad is the advice that cannot be changed! - Publilius Syrus
Manum te tabula
The hand from the table (in the sense of: hands off)! - Petronius
Manus manum lavat
One hand washes the other
Maxima debetur puero reverentia
One owes the boy the greatest reverence - Juvenal
Maxime peccantes, quia nihil peccare conantur
He who dare not sin commits the greatest sin - Erasmus of Rotterdam
Mea culpa
My fault
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa
Through my fault, through my fault, through my greatest fault - general confession of guilt at the beginning of the Latin Mass liturgy
Medice cura te ipsum
Physician, heal thyself - OT: Book of Sirach
Medicina soror philosophiae
The art of healing is the sister of philosophy - Tertullian
Medicus curat, natura sanat
Let the doctor treat, let nature heal - Hippocrates (c. 400 BC)
Medicus nihil aliud est quam animi consolatio
The physician is nothing other than the comforter of the soul - Petronius
Medio tutissimus ibis
In the middle you will walk most safely - Ovid
Melius est prevenire quam preveniri
It is better that you should precede than that you should be preceded
Memento mori
Remember that you must die (quote from Persius)
Modus procedendi
Code of procedure - principle of law
Morituri te salutant
Those who are about to die salute you - gladiatorial salute (Ave imperator)
Mors certa, hora incerta
Death is certain, the hour is not
Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur
The world wants to be deceived, therefore it shall be deceived - Latin by Luther, the addition 'ergo decipiatur' allegedly comes from Paracelsus
Nam quod in iuventus non discitur, in matura aetate nescitur
What one does not learn in youth, one never learns in old age - Cassiodorus
Nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.
For your property is endangered when your neighbour's house is on fire - Horace (65-8 BC)
Naturam expelles furca, tamen usque recurret
Even if you drive out nature with a pitchfork, it will always return- horace
Navigare necesse est, vivere non necesse est
Seafaring is necessary, living is not - Pompey
Ne discere cessa
Do not stop learning - Cato
Ne sutor supra crepidam
Cobbler do not go beyond the sandal (=> stick to your last) - Pliny
Nec scire fas est omnia
It is impossible to know everything - Horace (65-8 BC)
Nemo enim potest personam diu ferre
No one can permanently wear a mask - Seneca
Nemo iudex in causa sua
No one can be judge in his own cause - legal principle
Nemo prudens punit, quia peccatum est, sed ne peccetur
No prudent person punishes because a fault has been committed but so that a fault will not be committed in the future - Seneca
Nescit vox missa reverti!
Do not understand the word once spoken to return! - Horace (65-8 BC)
Nihil in terra sine causa fit
Nothing on earth happens without reason - Job 5,6 VUL
Nil admirari
Wondering about nothing - Principle of Pythagoras
Nolens volens
For better or worse - Cicero
Noli me tangere
Touch me not - John 19:17; Christ's words to Mary Magdalene after his resurrection on Easter morning Motto of the US state of Alabama
Noli turbare circulos meos!
Do not disturb my circles! - Archimedes
Nomen est omen
The name is omen - Plautus (c. 250-184 BC)
Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum
Not everyone succeeds in getting to Corinth - Horace
Non duce tempus eget!
The time does not call for a general! - Lucan
Non licet omnibus Corinthum adire
Not everyone is allowed to approach Corinth - Horace
Non mortem timemus, sed cogitationem mortis
It is not death that we fear, but the idea of death - Seneca
Non multa, sed multum!
Do not do many things, but one thing intensively and precisely! - Pliny
Non olet
It does not stink - Suetonius
Non omnia possumus omnes!
We cannot all do everything! Also: not all gifts are bestowed on one man! - Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius
Non omnibus unum est quod placet!
There is nothing that pleases everyone! - Petronius
Non possumus
It is impossible for us - Acts 4, 20
Non scholae, sed vitae discimus
We learn not for school, but for life - Seneca
Nondum omnium dierum sol occidit!
It is not yet the end of the day! - Livius
Nosce te ipsum
Know thyself- Cicero
Nova artificia docuit fames
New arts taught by hunger - Seneca
Nuda veritas
The naked truth - Horace (65-8 BC)
Nulla poena sine lege
No punishment without law - legal principle
Nulla vita sine musica
No life without music
Nunc est bibendum
Now let us drink! - Horace (65-8 BC)
Odi et amo Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris Nescio
I love and hate Why do you ask? Perhaps I do not know (Ennius)
O dulce nomen libertatis!
O sweet name liberty! (Cicero)
O tempora, o mores!
O times, O mores! (Cicero)
Oderint, dum metuant!
Let them hate (me), if only they fear (me)! (Suetonius) This saying was often used by Emperor Caligula.
Odi profanum vulgus et arceo
I don't want to know anything about the rabble and keep it away from me
Oleum et operam perdidi!
Oil and labour I have wasted! (Plautus) Meaning: Everything was for nothing!
O matre pulchra filia pulchrior!
Daughter, even more beautiful than her beautiful daughter! (Horace)
Omne malum vino cantuque levato!
Make every misfortune light through wine and song! (Horace)
Omne principium difficile!
All beginnings are difficult!
Omnes horas complectere! Dum differtur, vita transcurrit Omnia aliena sunt, tempus tantum nostrum est!
Make all hours your own! By postponing life, it rushes by! Everything is someone else's property, only time is ours! (Seneca, Epistulae Morales)
Omnia aequo animo ferre sapientis est!
It is a sign of wisdom to bear everything calmly!
Omnia aliena sunt, tempus tantum nostrum est!
All things are foreign property, only time is ours! (Seneca)
Omnia bona mea mecum sunt!
Everything that has value for me, I have with me! (Seneca)
Omnia causa fiunt!
Everything happens for a reason!
Omnia fert tempus, pariter rapit omnia tempus!
Time brings everything, and likewise time takes everything! (Palingenius)
Omnia homini, dum vivit, speranda est!
Everything man, as long as he lives, can hope for! (Seneca)
Omnia mea mecum porto!
All my possessions I carry with me (saying of Bias after Cicero)
Omnia sponte fluant, absit violentia rebus!
Everything flows by itself, violence is far from things! or: Everything happens by itself without violence! (Comenius)
Omnia tempus revelat!
Time reveals everything! (Tertullian)
Omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori!
Love conquers all, let us also yield to love! (Virgil)
Omnium rerum homo mensura est!
Man is the measure of all things!
Omnium rerum principia parva sunt!
The beginnings of all things are small! (Cicero)
Onus est honos!
Dignity is a burden!
Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano!
Pray that in a healthy body there may be a healthy mind! - Juvenal
O si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses!
O if you had kept silent, you would have remained a philosopher! (Boethius)
Otia corpus alunt, animus quoque pascitur illis!
Leisure nourishes the body, the mind also grazes in its pasture! (Ovid)
Otium cum dignitate
Retirement with dignity (Cicero)
Pares cum paribus facillime congregantur!
Like and like like gladly associate (Cicero)
Pars sanitatis velle sanari est!
Part of healing is wanting to be healed! (Seneca)
Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus
The mountains are torn apart and a ridiculous mouse is born! (Horace)
Patet omnibus veritas; nondum est occupata!
Truth is accessible to everyone; it has not yet been taken! (Seneca)
Pati necesse est multa mortales mala!
People must endure many evils!
Patria est, ubicumque est bene!
The fatherland is wherever one feels good (Cicero)
Pauci prudentia honesta ab deterioribus, utilia ab noxiis discernunt, plures aliorum eventis docentur!
Only a few have the insight to distinguish good from bad, useful from harmful; the majority only learn from the fate of others! (Tacitus)
Pauperis es numerare pecus!
Only the poor count their sheep! (Ovid)
Paupertas artes omnes perdocet
Poverty teaches all arts Meaning: Necessity is the mother of invention! (Plautus)
Pauper upique iacet!
The poor lie everywhere on the ground (Ovid)
Pecunia non olet!
Money does not stink! (Suetonius, Vespasian, 23,3)
Per aspera ad astra!
On rough roads to the stars! (after much effort to success, through darkness to light)
Perfer et obdura! Dolor hic tibi proderit olim!
Bear it and endure! One day the pain will be of use! (Catullus, taken up again by Ovid)
Perfugium videtur omnium laborum et sollicitudinum esse sommnus!
Refuge from all toil and trouble seems to be sleep! (Cicero)
Philosophia non in verbis, sed in rebus est!
Philosophy teaches to do something, not to talk! (Seneca)
Pisces natare oportet!
Fish should swim! (Petron)
Plenus venter non studet libenter!
A full belly does not like to study! (Jerome)
Poeta nascitur, orator fit
To be a poet one must be born, to be an orator one can train!
Possunt quia posse videntur!
They can do it because they think they can" (Virgil).
Post vinum verba, post imbrem nascitur herba!
After the wine the words flourish, after the rain the grass!
Praeter speciem stultus est!
He is dumber than he looks! (Plautus)
Praevalent illicita!
What is forbidden has its special charm! (Tacitus)
Principiis obsta, sero medicina paratur!
Resist the beginnings, too late a remedy is prepared! (Ovid)
Pro lucro tibi pone diem, quicum sequetur!
Look upon every day that is yet to come as gain! (Cato)
Proximus sum egomet mihi!
I am the nearest to myself! (Terence)
Prudentia est rerum expetendarum fugiendarumque scientia!
Prudence means being able to distinguish between what one must strive for and what one must avoid! (Cicero)
Prudentia potentia est!
Knowledge is power!
Quae volumus, credimus libenter!
What one wishes, one gladly believes!
Qualis artifex pereo!
What an artist perishes with me! (Emperor Nero, handed down by Suetonius)
Qualis autem homo ipse esset, talem esse eius orationem!
A man is known by his speech!
Quam magnus mirantium tam magnus invidentium populus est!
So many admirers, so many enviers! (Seneca)
Quam non est facilis virtus! Quam vero difficilis eius diuturna simulation!
How difficult is virtue! But how difficult is its constant pretence! (Cicero)
Quam quisque norit artem, in hac se exerceat!
Let everyone practise the art he has learned! (Cicero, Tusculanae disputationes 1,41)
Quam stultum est aetatem disponere ne crastinis quidem dominum!
How foolish it is to divide up life without even being master of the next day! (Seneca)
Quamvis sunt sub aqua Sub aqua maledicere temptant!
Even under water Under water they want to malign! (Ovid, Metamorphoses)
Quamvis vetus arbustum potest transferri!
A tree, be it ever so old, can be transplanted! (Seneca)
Quare verbis parcam? Gratuita sunt!
Why should I spare words? They are free! (Seneca)
Quem dei diligunt, adulescens moritur!
Whom the gods love, they let die young! (Plautus)
Quem fors dierum cumque dabit, lucro adpone!
Every day that fate gives you, count it as profit!
Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere!
Ask not what tomorrow will bring! (Horace) Literally: What tomorrow will be, do not ask!
Quidquid futurum est summum, ab imo nascitur!
Even what is to become the highest begins at the bottom! (Publilius Syrus)
Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem!
He who wants to eat the kernel from a nut, should break the shell! (Plautus)
Qui nimium probat, nihil probat!
He who wants to prove too much, proves nothing!
Qui non est hodie, cras minus aptus erit!
He who will not do it today, will do it even less tomorrow! (Ovid)
Qui suo iure utitur, nemini facit iniuriam!
He who applies his right does no one wrong!
Quid de quoque viro et cui dicas, saepe videto!
Think about what you say to someone and to whom you say it! (Horace)
Quid leges sine moribus?
What are laws without morals? (Horace)
Quid opus est nota noscere?
What is the use of knowing what is known? (Plautus)
Quidquid agis prudenter agas respice finem!
Whatever you do, do it wisely and remember where it leads!
Quid verba audiam, cum facta videam?
Why should I listen to words where I see deeds? (Cicero)
Quieta non movere!
One should not move what is at rest!
Quis leget haec?
Who will read this?
Quod caret alterna requie, durabile non est!
That which lacks rest in alternation does not last! (Ovid)
Quod latet, ignotum est, ignoti nullo cupido!
What one does not know, that he does not desire! Meaning: What I do not know does not make me hot! (Ovid)
Quod licet jovi, non licet bovi!
If two people do the same thing, it is by no means the same thing!
Quod me nutrit me destruit!
What nourishes me destroys me!
Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem!
What the ruler approves has the force of law! (Ulpian)
Quod quis per alium fecit, ipse fecisse putatur
The spiritual (intellectual) author of a deed is liable for it!
Quod sis, esse velis!
What you are, you shall want to be! (Martial)
Recte facti fecisse merces est!
The yield of a right deed consists in having done it! (Seneca)
Regia, crede mihi, res est succurrere lapsis!
It is something royal, believe me, to help him who has stumbled! (Ovid)
Relinquendum rumoribus tempus, quo senescant!
One must give rumours time, so that they wither! (Tacitus)
Tene, verba sequentur!
Keep an eye on the matter, the words will come by themselves! (Cato the Elder, 234-149 BC)
Repetitio est mater studiorum!
Repetition is the mother of studies! (Cassiodorus)
Res ad triarios rediit!
Literally: The matter has come to the Triarians Meaning: 'Now it is the turn of the most experienced fighters' or 'It has come to the extreme' (Livius)
Res non semper, spes mihi semper adest!
Reality does not always help, but hope does! (Ovid)
Ruinis imminentibus musculi permigrant!
The rats are leaving the sinking ship!
Saepe stilum vertum!
Often turn back the stylus! (Horace)
Saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!
The greatest minds often live hidden in the dark! (Plautus)
Sapere aude!
Dare to use your mind without bias! (Horace)
Sapientia aedificabitur domus et prudentia roborabitur!
By wisdom a house is built and by understanding it is maintained!
Sapientia felicitas!
Wisdom is happiness!
Scio me nihil scire!
I know that I know nothing! (Socrates)
Sedit qui timuit ne non succederet
For fear of failure he did nothing
Semper aliquid haeret!
Something always remains (Plutarch)
Sero molunt deorum molae!
God's mills grind slowly!
Serum est cavendi tempus in mediis malis!
Too late one foresees oneself when one is in the midst of disaster! (Seneca)
Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses!
If you had kept silent, you would have remained a philosopher! (Boethius)
Sibi quisque proximus est!
Everyone is nearest to himself!
Sic transit gloria mundi!
Thus passes the glory of the world! (Vulgate, acclamation at the coronation of the Pope)
Sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas!
Do not use your property in a way that could interfere with the property of another! (Roman legal principle)
Si vis pacem, para bellum!
If you want peace, prepare for war! (Vegetius)
Sine amicitia vita est nulla!
Without friendship there is no right life!
Spatio brevi - spem longam reseces!
Limit your far-reaching hope to a short period of time! (Horace)
Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsae!
To see they come, they come to be seen themselves (Ovid on the spectators in the theatre)
Superbientem animus prosternet!
Pride comes before the fall!
Suum cuique per me uti atque frui licet!
As far as I am concerned, everyone is allowed to use and enjoy what he has! (Cato the Elder)
Tacere multis discitur vitae malis!
Through much suffering in life one learns to be silent! (Thyestes, 319)
Tanto brevius omne, quanto felicius tempus!
The shorter each period of time seems, the happier it is! (Pliny)
Temeritas est florentis aetatis, prudentia senescentis!
Frivolity is inherent in blossoming youth, prudence in old age! (Cicero)
Tempora labuntur tacitisque senecimus annis et fugiunt freno non remorante dies! Time slips away, we age silently with the years, and the days flee without a rein to restrain them! (Ovid)
Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis!
Times change, and we change with them!
Tempus abire tibi est!
It is time for you to go! (Horace)
Tempus edax rerum!
Time wears away at things! (Ovid)
Tempus erit, quo tu, quae nunc excludis amantem, frigida deserta nocte iacebis anus; Neo tua nocturna frangetur ianua rixa; sparsa nec invenies limina mane rosa
The time will come that you, who now exclude the lover, will spend the night lonely and cold as an unloved woman Neither in the nightly quarrel will the door be broken for you then, nor sprinkled with roses will you find the doorstep you early (Ovid, Art of Love)
Tempus est etiam maiora conari!
It is the right time to tackle greater things! (Livius)
Tempus est nos de illa perpetua iam, non de hac exigua vita cogitare!
It is time that we think of that eternal life and no longer of this short one! (Cicero)
Tempus facit aerumnas leves
Time soothes sorrow (Seneca)
Teneas tuis te!
Keep your things with you! In the sense of: Mind your own business! (Horace)
Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito!
Do not avoid misfortune, no, go undaunted to meet it! (Virgil)
Tunica propior pallio est!
The shirt is closer to me than the skirt! (Plautus, Trinummus 5,2)
Turpe est aliud loqui, aliud sentire!
It is shameful to say something other than what one thinks! (Seneca)
Tuus sum, inquit, Brute, malus genius; in Philippis me videbis!
I am your evil spirit Brutus At Philippi you will see me again! (Saying of Caesar, according to Plutarch) Meaning: My opportunity for revenge will come!
Ubi bene, ibi patria!
Where it is well with me, is my home (Cicero).
Ubi quis dolet, ibidem et manum habet!
Everyone knows best where the shoe pinches him! (Plutarch)
Ulla deformior species est civitas quam illa in qua opulentissimi optimi putantuar!
There is no uglier form of government than that in which the richest are considered the best! (Cicero)
Urbi et orbi
To the city and the whole world!
Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas!
Even if the powers are lacking, the will must nevertheless be praised! (Ovid)
Ut enim non omne vinum, sic non omnis aetas matura vetustate coacescit!
As little as every wine becomes sour through age, so little does every mature life! (Cicero)
Ut medicina valetudinis, navigationis gubernatio, sic vivendi ars est prudentia!
As medicine is the art of procuring health, navigation the art of steering a ship, so prudence is the art of living! (Cicero)
Vae victis!
Woe to the defeated! (Livius)
Valere malo quam dives esse!
I would rather be healthy than rich! (Cicero)
Variatio delectat!
Variety delights! (Cicero)
Varium et mutabile semper femina!
Women are capricious and fickle! (Virgil)
Vecundari neminem apud mensam decet!
Let no one be modest at table! (Plautus)
Venturae memores iam nunc estote senectae, / sic nullum vobis tempus abibit iners!
Think already of the coming old age, so no day will slip away from you uselessly! (Ovid)
Verba docent, exempla trahunt!
Words instruct, examples carry away!
Veritatem dies aperit!
The truth comes to light!
Vestimentum non facit monachum!
Clothes do not make a monk! (in the sense of: It is not the clothes that make the monk, but his deeds)
Vince animos irumque tuam, qui cetera vincis!
Conquer your impulse and your anger, you who conquer all the rest!
Vincit qui se vincit!
He who conquers is victorious!
Vinum lac senum!
Wine is the milk of the aged!
Vinum laetificat cor hominis!
Wine gladdens the heart of man! (Vulgate, Psalm 104,15)
Vinum novum, amicus novus!
A new wine is like a new friend!
Vis consili expers mole ruit sua!
Strength without wisdom falls by its own force!
Vitam brevem esse, longam artem!
Life is short, art is long! (Hippocrates)
Vita brevis, ars longa!
Life is short, art is long! (Tradition by Seneca, originally Hippocrates)
Vitaque mancipio nulli datur, omnibus usu!
Life is given to no one as a possession, to all for use! (Lucretius)
Vivere militare est!
To live is to be a fighter (to fight)! (Seneca)
Vivitur parvo bene!
With little one lives well! (Horace)
Vixi et quem dederat cursum fortuna peregi!
I have lived and have gone to the end of the path that fate has marked out for me (Seneca is quoting Virgil here).
Vox audita perit, littera scripta manet!
The spoken word blows away, the written word endures!
Vox populi, vox dei!
The voice of the people is the voice of God!
