Quotes on Latin

If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.

May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable.

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

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

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.

There is a middle ground in things.

It is sweet and honorable to die for your country.

Remember to keep the mind calm in difficult moments.

We are deceived by the appearance of right.

Capture the day, put minimum trust on tomorrow.

The workmanship was better than the subject matter.

Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable.

As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.

The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.

One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down.

there is no glory in punishing

Sometimes, when she's out here alone, she can feel the pulse of something bigger, as if all things animate were beating in unison, a glory and a connection that sweeps her out of herself, out of her consciousness, so that nothing has a name, not in Latin, not in English, not in any known language.