Latin Phrases Flashcards by Eric Edwards | Brainscape

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Acta non berba

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Deeds, not words

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Amor vincit omnia

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Love conquers all

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Audere est faucere.

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To dare is to do.

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Veni, vidi, vici

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I came, I saw, I conqured.

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Non ducor, duco

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I am not led, I lead

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Bona fide

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In good faith

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Dies irae.

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Day of wrath

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Cras es noster

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Tomorrow, be ours.

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Dictum factum

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What is said is done.

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Carpe diem

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Seize the day

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Carpe vinum

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Seize the wine.

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Dum vita est, spes est.

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While there is life, there is hope

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Familia supra omnia

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Family over everything

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Fons vitae caritas

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Love is the foundation of life.

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Sapientia potentia est

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Wisdom is power

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Memento vivere

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Remember to live

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Morior invictus

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Death before defeat

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Palma non sine pulvere

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Dare to try

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Pax vobiscum

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Peace [be] with you

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Fortiter et fideliter

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Bravely and faithfully

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Sequere pecuniam

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Follow the money

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Omne initium difficile est.

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Every beginning is difficult.

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Sic vita est.

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Such is life.

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Hodie mihi, cras tibi.

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Today it’s me, tomorrow it will be you.

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Humilitas occidit superbiam.

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Humility conquers pride.

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Sic infit.

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So it begins.

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Igne natura renovatur integra.

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Through fire, nature is reborn whole

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Oderint dum metuant

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Let them hate so long as they fear

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Ordo ab chao.

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Out of chaos, comes order.

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Libertas perfundet omnia luce.

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Freedom will flood all things with light.

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Una hirundo non facit ver.

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One swallow does not make summer

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Verba volant, scripta manent

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Words fly away, writings remain.

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Grandescunt aucta labore.

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With hard work, all things increase and grow.

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Acuts me invito factus non est meus actus.

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The act done by me against my will is not my act.

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Ad meliora

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Towards better things.

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Adversus solem ne loquitor.

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Do not speak against the Sun.

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Calamus gladio fortior.

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The pen is mightier than the sword.

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Vacate et scire.

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Be still and know.

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In absentia lucis, tenebrae vincunt.

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In the absence of light, darkness prevails.

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Ego te provoco

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I challenge you.

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Quam bene non quantum.

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How well, not how much.

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Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis.

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The times are changing, and we change in them.

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Tendit in ardua virtus.

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Virtue strives for what is difficult.

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Necessitas etiam timidos fortes facit.

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Need makes even the timid brave.

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Faber est suae quisque fortunae

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Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.

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Magna est vis consuetudinis.

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Great is the power of habit.

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Nil volentibus arduum.

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Nothing [is] arduous for the willing.

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Non loqui sed facere

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No talk but action.

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Bono malum superate.

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Overcome evil with good.

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Suum cuique.

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To each his own.

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Memores acti prudentes future.

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Mindful of what has been done, aware of what will be.

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Pro bono

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For the good.

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Vincit qui patitur

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He conquers who endures.

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Qui totum vult totum perdit

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He who wants everything loses everything

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Praesis ut prosis ne ut imperes.

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Lead in order to serve, not in order to rule.

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Incepto ne desistam

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May I not shrink from my purpose.

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In medias res

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In the middle of things
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