Latin Quotations 7
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- Gloria virtutem tamquam umbra sequitur
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CICERO
(Glory follows virtue as a shadow does) - Multi famam, conscientiam pauci verentur
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PLINY
(Many fear rumor, few fear conscience) - Nemo regere potest nisi qui et regi
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SENECA
(No one can govern who cannot also be governed) - Primus in orbe deos fecit timor
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STATIUS
(Fear first in the world created the gods) - Divina natura dedit agros; ars humana aedificavit urbes
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VARRO
(Divine nature gave the fields; human skill built the cities) - Tristis eris si solus eris
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OVID
(You will be sad if you are alone) - Qui prior stinxerit, eius victoria erit
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LIVY
(Victory will be his who first draws the sword) - Contra verbosos noli contendere verbis
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DIONYSIUS CATO
(Against the wordy, do not contend with words) - Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
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VEGETIUS
(Let his who desires peace prepare for war) - Rapiamus, amici, occasionem de die
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HORACE
(My friends, let us seize the opportunity from the day) - Non ut edam, vivo; sed ut vivam, edo
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QUINTILIAN
(I live, not to eat, but I eat to live) - Se tacuisses, philosophus mansisses
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BOETHIUS
(If you had been silent, you would have remained a philosopher) - Oderint, dum metuant
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ACCIUS
(Let them hate, provided they fear me) - Iniurarium remedium est oblivio
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PUBLILIUS SYRUS
(The cure for wrongs is forgetfulness) - Legum omnes servi sumus ut leberi esse possimus
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CICERO
(We are all servants of the law in order that we can be free) - Nemo timendo ad summum pervenit locum
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PUBLILIUS SYRUS
(No man by fearing reaches the highest place) - Hominis mens discendo alitur et cogitando
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CICERO
(The mind of man is nourished by learning and thinking) - Nihil sine ratione faciendum est
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SENECA
(Nothing should be done without reason) - Non scholae sed vitae discimus
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SENECA
(Not for school, but for life we learn) - ..hae tibi erunt artes: pacique imponere morem, parcere subiectis, et debellare superbos
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VERGIL
(these shall be your arts; to impose the conditions of peace, to spare those who have been subdued and to conquer the proud) - omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis
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OVID
(all things are subject to change, and we change with them.) - natura abhorret vacuum
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DESCARTES
(nature abhors a vacuum) - non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere qua re: hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te
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MARTIAL
(I don't like you, Sabidius, and I cannot say why: all I can say is, I don't like you) - carpe viam
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VERGIL
(Seize the way) - prima urbes inter, divum domus, aurea Roma
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AUSONIUS
(first amont cities, home of the gods, golden Rome) - peior est bello timor ipse belli
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SENECA
(worse than war is the very fear of war) - urbem...excoluit adeo, ut iure sit gloriatus maroream se relinquere, quam latericiam accepisset
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SUETONIUS
(He made so many inprovements in Rome, he could rightly boast that he found it brick and left it marble.) - vivas ut possis quando nec quis ut velis
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CAECILIUS
(live as you can since you cannot live as you would) - O fortunatam natam me consule Romam!
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CICERO
(fortunate Rome born in my consulship!) - non omnia possum omnes
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VERGIL
(we cannot all do all things) - ab exiguis pro fecta initiis eo creverit ut iam magnitudine laboret sua
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LIVY
(Rome has grown so since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness) - ego primim tollo, nominor quoniam leo
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PHAEDRUS
(I'll help myself firstt name is lion - deus est mortali iuvare mortalem
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PLINY THE ELDER
(???) - numquam autem recte faciet, qui cito credit, uitque homo negotians
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PETRONIUS
(a man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman) - omne ignotum pro magnifico est
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TACITUS
(the unknown always passes for the marvelous) - ego si risi quod ineptus pastillos Rufillus olet, Gargonius hircum, lividus et mordax videar?
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HORACE
(If i smile at the stong perfumes of the silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious and ill-natured? - res rustica sic est: si unam rem sero feceris, omnia opera sero facies
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CATO
(This is how it is with farming: if you put off doing one thing, you will be late with everything.) - Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque
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ENNIUS
(on ancient ways and heroes stands the Roman state.)