What are some cool Latin phrases?
can you please write the english translation? thank you!
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- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
- que me bordello?
- amor vincit omnia - "love conquers all" audentes fortuna iuvat - "fortune favors the brave" dum spiro spero - "while i breathe, i hope" esse est percipi - "to be is to be perceived" ad aspera per astera - "to the stars through difficulties"
- tempus fugit...time flies
- nil bastardium carborundium
- Cool or naughty? Carpe Diem - Sieze the Day! Carpe Narem - Pick your Nose! Solve Lora Inferens - Unleash hell! (a la 'Gladiator') Illuc ivi, Illud Feci - Been there done that... Futue te ipsum - go f**** yourself! This has been a selection of cool & naughty phrases - there are much more than this - Look for any book on Latin by Henry Beard (henricus barbatus), particulary the X-treme Latin Book (referenced below) Enjoy using these!
- My "Marquee" screensaver text is: HAEC DIES QVAM FECIT DOMINVS, EXVLTEMVS ET LAETEMVR IN EA (This is the day that the Lord hath made, we will rejoice and be glad in it - Psalm 117, verse 24)
- All the Latin phrases are cool. I'm posting the best I've found: Pax melior est quam iustissimum bellum. -- "Peace is better than the most just war." Age quod agis -- "Do what you do" Pecunia not olet. -- "Money does not smell" (Remark by Roman emperor Vespasian on the plan to tax public urinals.) Bis dat, qui cito dat. -- "He who gives quickly gives twice." Quidquid discis, tibi discis. -- "Whatever you learn, you learn it for yourself." Cibi condimentum est fames. -- "Hunger is a spice for any meal." Qui habet aures audiendi audiat -- "Those who have ears to hear, hear!" Quot capita, tot sententiae. -- "As many opinions, as people." Errare humanum est. Perseverare diabolicum. -- "To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil." Nulla regula sine exceptione. -- "No rule without exception." Nihil lacrima citius arescit. -- "Nothing dries more quickly than a tear." Non omnia possumus omnes. -- "All of us cannot do everything." Non scholae, sed vitae discimus. -- "We don't learn from school but from life." Hodie mihi, cras tibi. -- "What's to me today, tomorrow to you." Oculi plus vident quam oculus. -- "Several eyes see more than only one." Ubi fumus, ibi ignis. - "Where there's smoke, there's fire." Vox populi, vox dei. - "The voice of the people is the voice of God" and as last the one that I've posted on my profile : AB UNO, DISCE OMNES (from one, learn all) ---
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