42 Quotes Tagged: latin

Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)

Amor vincit omnia

That was a good mark in Latin, and I am pleased with your steady improvement in it.

"Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses"

Fas est ab hoste doceri.
One should learn even from one's enemies.

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

The difficulty of learning the dead languages does not arise from any superior abstruseness in the languages themselves, but in their being dead, and the pronunciation entirely lost. It would be the same thing with any other language when it becomes dead. The best Greek linguist that now exists does not understand Greek so well as a Grecian plowman did, or a Grecian milkmaid; and the same for the Latin, compared with a plowman or a milkmaid of the Romans; and with respect to pronunciation and idiom, not so well as the cows that she milked. It would therefore be advantageous to the state of learning to abolish the study of the dead languages, and to make learning consist, as it originally did, in scientific knowledge.

Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes).

A TUZZO LANTO
Poici di Pare

TANto SAca TULna TI, na PUta TUchi PUti TI la.
RUNto CAta CHANto CHANta MANto CHI la TI da.
YALta CAra SULda MI la CHAta Picha Pino Tito BRALda pe te CHIna nana CHUNda lala CHINda lala CHUNda!
RONto piti CA le, a TANto CHINto quinta LALda ola TiNta dalla LALta, YENta PUcha lalla TALta!

The reward of friendship is friendship itself.

E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.
And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.

"Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa Fortuna."

["Generally common sense is rare in that (higher) rank."]

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.

Barba non facit philosophum

atque illi artifices corporis simulacra ignotis nota faciebant; quae uel si nulla, nihilo sint tamen obscuriores clari uiri.