Ubi dubium, ibi libertas. ? "Where there is doubt, there is freedom."
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Duobus litigantibus, tertius gaudet. ? "While two men argue, the third one rejoices."Comment
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Vincere scis, Hannibal, victoria uti nescis. ? "You know how to win victory, Hannibal, you do not how to use it." According to Livy a cavalry colonel told Hannibal this after the victory at Cannae in 216 BC, meaning that Hannibal should have marched on Rome directlyComment
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Errare humanum est. Perseverare diabolicum. ? "To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil." (Seneca)Comment
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Nil sine magno labore vita dedit mortalibus ? "life does not give mortals anything but hard labor" (Horace)Comment
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Vox populi, vox dei. ? "The voice of the people is the voice of God."Comment
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Proximus sum egomet mihi ? "I am closest to myself" (Terence)Comment
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Ad astra ? "To the stars," title of the magazine published by the National Space Society.Comment
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Nosce te ipsum! ? "Know thyself!" (Cicero, from the Greek gnothi seauton, on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi). See also: Temet nosceComment
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Bona diagnosis, bona curatio. ? "Good diagnosis, good cure."Comment
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Boni pastoris est tondere pecus, non deglubere. ? "A good shepherd shears his sheep, he doesn't flay them" (Tiberius to his regional commanders) i.e. don't tax the populace excessivelyComment
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Saepe morborum gravium exitus incerti sunt. ? "The effects of serious illnesses are often unknown."Comment
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Fiat justitia ruat coelum ? "Let justice be done, though heaven should fall."Comment
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Amor vincit omnia ? "Love conquers all." (See Omnia vincit amor).Comment
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Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit ? "Perhaps even this will one day be pleasant to look back on" from Virgil's Aeneid, possibly a translation from Aesop.Comment
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Ignoti nulla cupido ? "The unknown does not tempt."Comment
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Fortes fortuna iuvat ? "Fortune favors the strong." (cf. Audaces fortuna iuvat.) (Terence)Comment
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Vincere scis, Hannibal, victoria uti nescis. ? "You know how to win victory, Hannibal, you do not how to use it." According to Livy a cavalry colonel told Hannibal this after the victory at Cannae in 216 BC, meaning that Hannibal should have marched on Rome directlyComment
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Interdum dormitat bonus Homerus ? "Sometimes even the good Homer slumbers" (i.e. even the best of us makes mistakes); originally quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus, Horace, Ars PoeticaComment
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Festina lente ! ? "Make haste slowly" (i.e. proceed quickly but with caution, a motto of Augustus Caesar).Comment
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Cura, ut valeas! ? "Take Care!"Comment
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Per fas et nefas ? "With right and wrong" by any means necessaryComment
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Iura novat curia. ? "The law is known to the court." Legal principle (e.g. in Germany) that says lawyers are not to argue the law because that is the office of the court.Comment
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Iurare in verba magistri. ? "Swear by teacher's words."Comment
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Qui habet aures audiendi audiat ? "Those who have ears to hear, hear!" (Vulgate, Matthew 11:15)Comment
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Gutta cavat lapidem [non vi, sed saepe cadendo]. ? "A drop drills the rock [not with force but by falling repeatedly]." (Ovid, Epistulæ ex Ponto)Comment
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Dominus Illuminatio Mea ? "The Lord is my light," motto of Oxford University.Comment
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Deserta faciunt et pacem appelant - "They destroy everything and they call it peace." (Tacitus)Comment
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Nulla poena sine lege ? "No punishment without a law."Comment
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Maxima debetur puero reverentia ? "One owes the greatest possible care for the child" (Juvenal)Comment
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Ubi bene, ibi patria ? "Where one feels good, there is one's country."Comment
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Ex nihilo nihil fit ? "Nothing comes from nothing" (you need to work for something; also the Conservation Law in philosophy and modern science). (Lucretius)Comment
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Risus abundat in ore stultorum ? "Laughs are plentiful in the mouth of the foolish."Comment
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Ignorantia legis non excusat ? "Ignorance of the law is no excuse."Comment
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Fide, sed qui, vide. ? "Trust but take care whom."Comment
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Ubi tu Gaius, ibi ego Gaia. ? "Where you are, Gaius, there I, Gaia, will be." (This is said to have been a nuptial formula, but it is only known from Greek sources.)Comment
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Ora et labora. ? "Pray and work." (Motto of Benedictine Order)Comment
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Bona diagnosis, bona curatio. ? "Good diagnosis, good cure."Comment
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Non omnia possumus omnes. ? "All of us cannot do everything." (Virgil)Comment
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Ubi fumus, ibi ignis. ? "Where there's smoke, there's fire."Comment
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Si vis pacem, para iustitiam. ? "If you want peace, prepare justice."Comment
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A Deo rex, a rege lex ? "Of God the King, of the King the law". Attributed to James I of EnglandComment
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Ubi mel ibi apes ? "Where there's honey, there are bees."Comment
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Labor omnia vincit. ? "Work conquers all things." Motto of the State of OklahomaComment
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