Latin Quotes

• Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Life, Mind

  Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”

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  I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar

  Sports, Bad Ass, Rome

  Quoted in Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars.

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• Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or producing, work-making activity of the human mind. By Poetry I mean, not the particular art which consists in writing verses, but a process both more general and more primary: that intercommunication between the inner being of things and the inner being of the human Self which is a kind of divination (as was realized in ancient times; the Latin vates was both a poet and a diviner). Poetry, in this sense, is the secret life of each and all of the arts.

  Jacques Maritain

  Art, Writing, Mean

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• Barba non facit philosophum

  Plutarch

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• Don't let the bastards grind you down.

  Margaret Atwood

  Graduation, Cheer Up, Grind

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Men, Able

  Virgil (1852). “The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil: With English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, and a Metrical Index”, p.336

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• Love, and a cough, are not concealed.

  Ovid

  Love, Concealed

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• No master can make me swear blind obedience.

  Horace

  Blind, Obedience, Masters

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• He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.

  Horace

  Wish, Lost, Belts

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• The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Rivers, Sound, Flow

  Quintus Curtius Rufus, John Rowe Workman (1956). “Quintus Curtius [History of Alexander]”

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• How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck chlamydia?

  Sarah Mlynowski

  Siri, Woods, Chlamydia

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• While there's life, there's hope.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Hope, Philosophical

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1880). “The Life and Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: Being a New Translation of the Letters Included in Mr. Watsons's Selection”

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• The glory is for those who deserve.

  Horace

  Glory, Deserve

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• Every man is the artisan of his own fortune.

  Appius Claudius Caecus

  Men, Fortune, Artisans

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• No," I replied testily. "I'm pretty sure 'digital' is Latin for 'fingeral,' so finger cancer equals digital cancer. This is all basic anatomy, Dr. Roland." The Dr. Roland told me that he thought I was overreacting, and the "fingeral" wasn't even a real word. Then I told him that I though he was underreacting, probably because he's embarrassed that he doesn't know how Latin works. Then he claimed that "underrecating" isn't a word either. The man has a terrible bedside manner.

  Jenny Lawson

  Real, Cancer, Men

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• Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.

  Horace

  Matter, Serious, Turns

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• Limbs of a dismembered poet.

  Horace

  Poet, Limbs

  Satires bk. 1, no. 4, l. 62

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• I hope that the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Memories, Everlasting, Latin Phrases

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1967). “On old age. On friendship”

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• Don't carry logs into the forest.

  Horace

  Forests

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• No, but you're wrong now, and always will be.

  Horace

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• Those who cross the sea, change sky, but not soul.

  Horace

  Sea, Sky, Soul

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• Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.

  Horace

  Tomorrow, Capture, Minimum

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• Don't waste the opportunity.

  Horace

  Opportunity, Waste

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• He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point .

  Horace

  Sweet

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• The mad is either insane or he is composing verses.

  Horace

  Mad, Insane, Composing

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