Carthago delenda est- "Carthage must be destroyed": Roman senator Cato ended every speech during the Punic Wars with this quote.Carpe diem - "Seize the day." By Horace, Odes I,11,8, to Leuconoe."A good shepherd shears his sheep, he doesn't flay them" ( Tiberius to his regional commanders) i.e. Boni pastoris est tondere pecus, non deglubere.Beati pauperes spiritu - "Lucky are those of a poor spirit" ( Vulgate, Matthew 5:3).Audi alteram partem - "Hear the other side" (a legal principle of fairness).The art referred to in the original aphorism was the craft of medicine, which took a lifetime to acquire. "Art is long, life is short." The Latin translation by Horace of a phrase from Hippocrates, often used out of context. Ad vitam eternam - "for the eternal life".Ars gratia artis - "Art for art's sake," motto of Metro Goldwin Mayer, made into Latin from Baudelaire's "L'art pour l'art".(More frequently as per aspera ad astra.) Ad astra per aspera - "To the stars through difficulties," motto of Kansas.Ad astra - "To the stars," title of the magazine published by the National Space Society.Acta non verba - "Actions, not words," motto of the United States Merchant Marine.A mari usque ad mare - "From sea to sea," motto of Canada.
Those sayings without additional information best belong at the relevant Wikiquote page.įor shorter phrases, see: List of Latin phrases.Ĭontents: Top - 0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z This list contains Latin proverbs or sayings where we have more information about them than merely their literal meaning.
The following is a partial list of Latin and Roman proverbs and sayings, in alphabetical order, with English translations.
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