Latin Phrases Flashcards
Acta non berba
Deeds, not words
Amor vincit omnia
Love conquers all
Audere est faucere.
To dare is to do.
Veni, vidi, vici
I came, I saw, I conqured.
Non ducor, duco
I am not led, I lead
Bona fide
In good faith
Dies irae.
Day of wrath
Cras es noster
Tomorrow, be ours.
Dictum factum
What is said is done.
Carpe diem
Seize the day
Carpe vinum
Seize the wine.
Dum vita est, spes est.
While there is life, there is hope
Familia supra omnia
Family over everything
Fons vitae caritas
Love is the foundation of life.
Sapientia potentia est
Wisdom is power
Memento vivere
Remember to live
Morior invictus
Death before defeat
Palma non sine pulvere
Dare to try
Pax vobiscum
Peace [be] with you
Fortiter et fideliter
Bravely and faithfully
Sequere pecuniam
Follow the money
Omne initium difficile est.
Every beginning is difficult.
Sic vita est.
Such is life.
Hodie mihi, cras tibi.
Today it’s me, tomorrow it will be you.
Humilitas occidit superbiam.
Humility conquers pride.
Sic infit.
So it begins.
Igne natura renovatur integra.
Through fire, nature is reborn whole
Oderint dum metuant
Let them hate so long as they fear
Ordo ab chao.
Out of chaos, comes order.
Libertas perfundet omnia luce.
Freedom will flood all things with light.
Una hirundo non facit ver.
One swallow does not make summer
Verba volant, scripta manent
Words fly away, writings remain.
Grandescunt aucta labore.
With hard work, all things increase and grow.
Acuts me invito factus non est meus actus.
The act done by me against my will is not my act.
Ad meliora
Towards better things.
Adversus solem ne loquitor.
Do not speak against the Sun.
Calamus gladio fortior.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Vacate et scire.
Be still and know.
In absentia lucis, tenebrae vincunt.
In the absence of light, darkness prevails.
Ego te provoco
I challenge you.
Quam bene non quantum.
How well, not how much.
Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis.
The times are changing, and we change in them.
Tendit in ardua virtus.
Virtue strives for what is difficult.
Necessitas etiam timidos fortes facit.
Need makes even the timid brave.
Faber est suae quisque fortunae
Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.
Magna est vis consuetudinis.
Great is the power of habit.
Nil volentibus arduum.
Nothing [is] arduous for the willing.
Non loqui sed facere
No talk but action.
Bono malum superate.
Overcome evil with good.
Suum cuique.
To each his own.
Memores acti prudentes future.
Mindful of what has been done, aware of what will be.
Pro bono
For the good.
Vincit qui patitur
He conquers who endures.
Qui totum vult totum perdit
He who wants everything loses everything
Praesis ut prosis ne ut imperes.
Lead in order to serve, not in order to rule.
Incepto ne desistam
May I not shrink from my purpose.
In medias res
In the middle of things
The action film began in medias res, with an exciting car chase.
