Quotes Flashcards
It gains strength by going
Vires acquirit eundo - Virgil
Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives
Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia - Cicero
The die has been cast
Alia iacta est - Caesar
Always the same thing
Semper idem - Cicero
If you wish to be loved, love
Si vis amari, ama - Seneca
Ignorance is the cause of fear
Timendi causa est nescire - Seneca
Every man is the artisan of his own fortune
Faber est suae quisque fortunae - Appius Claudius Caecus
It’s a bad plan that can’t be changed
Malum consilium quod mutari non potest - Publilius Syrus
For those in misery, better things may follow
Forsan miseros meliora sequentur - Virgil
There is, to be sure, no evil without something good
Malum quidem nullum esse sine aliquo bono - Pliny The Elder
Fortune favors the brave
Fortis fortuna adiuvat - Terence
AND
Audentis fortuna iuvat - Virgil
One hand washes the other
Lit. The hand washes a hand
Manus manum lavat - Petronius
The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena
Gladiator in arena consilium capit - Seneca
If I cannot move Heaven, I will raise Hell
Flectere si nequeo superos Acheronta movebo - Virgil, the Aeneid
To err is human
Errare humanum est - Seneca the Younger (maybe)
To be, rather than to seem
Esse quam videri - Cicero, De Amicitia
There is measure in things
Est modus in rebus - Horace, Satires
I have reared a monument more enduring than bronze
exegi monumentum aere perennius - Horace, Carmina
I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting
Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore - Cicero
Seize the day
Carpe diem -Horace, ode 1.11
It is a sweet and fitting thing to die for one’s country
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori -Horace
Now we must drink
Nunc est bibendum -Horace
Dare to be wise
Sapere aude -Horace
Golden mean
Aurea mediocritas -Horace
Bread and circuses
Panem et circenses -Juvenal
A sound mind in a sound body
Mens sana in corpore sano -Juvenal
A rare bird
Rara avis -Juvenal
Who will guard the guardians themselves?
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? -Juvenal
