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- Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.
- Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. (Ovid)
- Qui non est hodie cras minus aptus erit.
- He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow. (Ovid)
- Veni, vidi, vici
- I came, I saw, I conquered (Julius Caesar)
- in loco parentis
- in the place of a parent
- Capillamentum? Haudquaquam conieci esse!
- A wig? I never would have guessed!
- Deo volente
- God willing
- Festina lente
- Make haste slowly (Caesar Augustus)
- sine qua non
- without which not
- exempli gratia (e.g.)
- for the sake of example
- id est (i.e.)
- that is
- Ars Gratia Artis
- Art for the sake of art (motto of MGM studios)
- Tempus fugit; carpe diem
- Time flies; seize the day
- Quod erat demonstrandum (Q.E.D.)
- That which was to be demonstrated
- O tempora! O mores!
- Oh the times! Oh the customs!
- Et tu Brute?
- You too, Brutus? (Julius Caesar)
- Lux et Veritas
- Light and Truth (Yale University motto)
- Dramatis Personae
-
the masks of the drama
i.e. the characters in the play - Ipsa scientia potestas est.
- Knowledge itself is power. (Sir Francis Bacon)
- O praeclarum custodem ovium lupum!
- An excellent protector of sheep, the wolf! (Cicero)
- caveat emptor
- let the buyer beware
- Rident stolidi verba Latina.
- Fools laugh at the Latin language (Ovid)
- Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur.
- We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. (Seneca)
- semper fidelis
- always faithful (Unites States Marine Corps motto)
- lapsus linguae
- a slip of the tongue
- rigor mortis
- the stiffness of death
- in Deo speramus.
- In God we trust.
- Uno viso, omnia visa sunt.
- Seen one, seen them all.