Proximus sum egomet mihi ? "I am closest to myself" (Terence)
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Navigare necesse est, vivere non est necesse. ? "To sail is necessary, to live is not necessary," Attributed by Plutarch to Gnaeus Pompeius who, during a severe storm, commanded sailors to bring food from Africa to RomeComment
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Nemo iudex in causa sua. ? "No-one is a judge in his own case".Comment
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Medio tutissimus ibis ? "In the middle shall you walk the safest" i.e. the middle path is the safest one (Ovid)Comment
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Homo sui iuris. ? "Independent man."Comment
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Ira furor brevis est. ? "Anger is a short rage" (Horace, epistles I, 2, 62).Comment
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Aquiris quodcumque rapis ? "You acquire what you reap (or take by force)"Comment
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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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Vestigia terrent ? "The traces deter" (Horace) Refers to the old fable of the wolf who refused an offer to enter the lion's den as he saw many traces leading into it, but none out.Comment
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Ars gratia artis ? "Art for art's sake," motto of Metro Goldwin Mayer.Comment
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In hoc signo vinces ? "By this sign you will conquer" (Constantine's vision before the Battle of Milvian Bridge).Comment
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Hypotheses non fingo. ? "I feign no hypotheses" (I do not assert that any hypotheses are true). Newton, PrincipiaComment
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Quem di diligunt, adulescens moritur ? "Whom the gods love dies young" (Plautus, Bacchides, IV, 7, 18). In the comic play, a sarcastic servant says this to his aging master. The rest of the sentence reads: dum valet, sentit, sapit, "while he is full of health, perception and judgement."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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Nulla est medicina sine lingua Latina. ? "No medicine without Latin."Comment
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Fide, sed qui, vide. ? "Trust but take care whom."Comment
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Fortes fortuna iuvat ? "Fortune favors the strong." (cf. Audaces fortuna iuvat.) (Terence)Comment
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Reddite ergo quae sunt Caesaris, Caesari ? "Then give Caesar what's Caesar's" (Vulgate, Matthew 22:21 as well as Luke 20:25)Comment
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Acta est fabula ? "What happened is a fable," or "The fable is ended" (Augustus' last words)Comment
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Quot capita, tot sententiae. ? "As many opinions as people."Comment
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Scire aliquid laus est, pudor est nihil discere velle. ? "It is commendable to know some things, it is disgraceful to refuse to learn." (Seneca)Comment
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Quem dii odere, paedagogum fecere (also Quem dii oderunt, paedagogum fecerunt) ? "Whom the gods hated, they made them pedagogues"Comment
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Amor vincit omnia ? "Love conquers all." (See Omnia vincit amor).Comment
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Iustitia omni auro carior. ? "Justice is more precious than all gold."Comment
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Sunt facta verbis difficiliora ? "Works are harder than words." i.e. "Easier said than done."Comment
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Rustica progenies semper villana fuit. ? "A rustic (as in, provincial, peasant-like) ancestry will always remain rustic."Comment
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Igne natura renovatur integra (INRI) ? "Through fire nature is reborn whole"; an alchemical aphorism.Comment
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Vasa vana plurimum sonant ? "Empty pots make the most noise"Comment
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Aquiris quodcumque rapis ? "You acquire what you reap (or take by force)"Comment
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Hypotheses non fingo. ? "I feign no hypotheses" (I do not assert that any hypotheses are true). Newton, PrincipiaComment
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Nil admirari ? "To not admire anything" you shouldn't let yourself be taken away by anything (Horace)Comment
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Aquila non capit muscas ? "An eagle doesn't hunt flies"Comment
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Nunc est bibendum ? "Now it's time to drink" (Horace, Odes I, 37, 1)Comment
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Mens sana in corpore sano ? "Healthy mind in healthy body." (Usually understood as "a healthy mind requires a healthy body", but actually Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano, "One prays that there is a healthy mind in (that) healthy body." Juvenal, Satires 10, 356). See also ASICS.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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Omnium artium medicina nobilissima est. ? "Medicine is the noblest of all arts."Comment
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Per scientiam ad salutem aegroti. ? "To heal the sick through knowledge."Comment
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Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus ? "Outside the Church [there is] No Salvation" (a disputed thesis of Roman Catholic theology).Comment
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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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Si vis amaria, ama ? "If you want to be loved, love" (Seneca)Comment
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Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses. ? "If you had kept your silence, you would have stayed a philosopher."Comment
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Nunc aut numquam ? "Now or never"Comment
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Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor ? "I see the better and acknowledge it, but I follow the worse (Ovid)Comment
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