Latin Sayings?

Question

What are some wise latin sayings?

Answer 1

"El que no ase tranza, no avanza."

"dime con quien andas, i te dire quien eres"

Answer 2

Ars longa, vita brevis -- The art (i.e. the learning/study) is long, life is short.

Nascentes morimur -- We die as we are being born.

Qui non proficit deficit -- He who does not make progress, goes backward.

Nihil tam munitum quod pecunia expugnari non possit. -- Nothing is so fortified that it cannot be captured with money.

Quaerendo invenies. -- By searching you will find.

Peior est bello timor ipse belli. -- Worse that war is the very fear of war.

Sol omnibus lucet. -- The sun shines for all.

Omnia vincit amor, nos et cedamus amori. -- Love conquers all, so let us yield to love.

Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. -- I hate and I love. Why do I do it, you may ask. I do not know, but I feel it happening and I am tortured. (A poem by Catullus.)

Audentes fortuna iuvat. -- Fortune helps the daring.

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. -- Times changes, so let us change with them.

Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo. -- Strongly in action, sweetly (softly) in manner.

Cave ab homine unius libri. -- Beware of the man with one book.

Claude os, aperi oculos. -- Close your moth, open your eyes.

Quem Iuppiter vult perdere dementat prius. -- Whom Jupiter wants to perish, he first drives insane.

Timendi causa est nescire. -- The cause of fear is not knowing.

Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum p**o. -- I am a human. I consider nothing human to be foreign to me.

Answer 3

abeunt studia in mores "Through study character grows"

vince malum bono   "Overcome Evil with Good"

ab uno disce omnes "From one, learn all"

Vivere est cogitare     "To live is to think"

veritas vos liberabit       "the truth will set you free"

Usus est magister optimus  "Practice is the best teacher."

sine scientia ars nihil est "without knowledge, skill is nothing"

sapere aude "dare to be wise"

omnia vincit amor "love conquers all"

nosce te ipsum   "know thyself"

tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito "you should not give in to evils, but proceed ever more boldly against them"

My absolute favorite:

Vive ut vivas  "live so that you may live"

PAX (peace)

Answer 4

My Favorite:

"Pulvis et umbra sumus"

-Roughly: We're nothing but a bit of dust and shadow.

-Literally: Dust and shadow we are

Answer 5

Imo pectore vultis- her face is carved deep into my heart. I think Ovid wrote it but it might have been Sappho.