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Let them hate, as long as they fear.
(oderint dum metuant.)
- Caligula
Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
- Caesar
I came, I saw, I conquered.
(veni, vidi, vici.)
- Caesar
You too, my son?
- Caesar
Keep to the subject and the words will follow.
(rem tene, verba sequentur.)
- Cato Senior
Seize the day, trust as little as possible in tomorrow.
(carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.)
- Horace
Never despair!
(nil desperandum!)
- Horace
Now we must drink.
(nunc est bibendum.)
- Horace
I can live neither with you, nor without you.
(nec possum tecum vivere, nec sine te.)
- Martial
Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.
- Ovid
Fools laugh at the Latin language.
(rident stolidi verba latina.)
- Ovid
He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow.
(qui non est hodie cras minus aptus erit.)
- Ovid
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. Do pay it. Don't forget.
- Socrates, on his death bed
Fortune favours the bold.
(audaces fortuna iuvat.)
- Virgil
I fear the Greeks, even bearing gifts.
(timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.)
- Virgil
Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.
(omnia vincit amor; et nos cedamus amori.)
- Virgil
