Maecenas, born of monarch ancestors Maecenas atavis edite regibus.
Maecenas, born of monarch ancestors Maecenas atavis edite regibus.
The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.
Anger is momentary madness.
The fellow is either mad or he is composing verses. Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.
Pale Death, with impartial foot, strikes at poor men's hovels and the towers of kings.
While we talk, hostile time flies away. Dum loquimur invida aetas fugerit.
They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages the object of our search is present with us.
Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom.
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were.
The same man will be loved when he is dead. Extinctus amabitur idem.
Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.
No need to despair under Teucer's leadership and protection.
Remember to keep a clear head in difficult times. Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem.
Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals we storm heaven itself in our folly.
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
What are you laughing at Just change the name and the joke's on you. Quid rides Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.
To know all things is not permitted.
There is a middle ground in things. Est modus in rebus.
He is not poor who has the use of necessary things.
As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word. Nec verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus interpres.
Whatever advice you give, be brief.
Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honor by the will of some popular breeze.
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow. Seize the day, trust as little as possible in tomorrow. Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero (Odes, I.xi.1)
Don't despair. Nil desperandum.
In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war. In pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello.
In the presence of the people. Coram populo.
The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn. Dente lupus, cornu taurus petit.
Have the courage to be wise.
The things that please are those that are asked for again and again. Bis repetita placent.
What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth.
Unaffected by manners. Simplex munditiis.
From the egg right to the apples. Ab ovo usque ad mala.
He despises what he sought and he seeks that which he lately threw away.
The irritable race of poets. Genus irritabile vatum.
I have erected a monument more lasting than bronze. Exegi monumentum aere perennius.
Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces. Pallida Mors Pale Death.
To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him.
He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, 'I have lived.' Tomorrow the heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.
Now we must drink. Nunc est bibendum.
Limbs of a dismembered poet. Disiecti membra poetae.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Joking aside, let us turn to serious matters. Amoto quaeramus seria ludo.
A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.
Brute force bereft of wisdom falls to ruin by its own weight. Vis consili expers mole ruit sua.
Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, Bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car.
Not all of me will die. Non omnia moriar.
When worthy Homer nods, I am offended.
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