Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses
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Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith
A man leaves his great house because he's boredWith life at home, and suddenly returns,Finding himself no happier abroad.He rushes off to his villa driving like mad,You'ld think he's going to a house on fire,And yawns before he's put his foot inside,Or falls asleep and seeks oblivion,Or even rushes back to town again.So each man flies from himself (vain hope, becauseIt clings to him the more closely against his will)And hates himself because he is sick in mindAnd does not know the cause of his disease.
It sounds to me, dear, as if your satirist is a bit like a monk. They both take a rather dim view of the world, and both try to do something abou
Fas est ab hoste doceri.One should learn even from one's enemies.
Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars
Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.
I totally carpe-d the snot out of this diem!
Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb?
What do you think that fish is?' Sam asked Astrid.,' she said.'Yeah?' Sam made a face. 'Do you think it's okay to eat?'? Inedible? Joke, duh. Try to keep up, Sam, I made that really easy for you.'Sam smiled. 'You know, a real genius would have known I wouldn't get it. Ergo, you are not a real genius. Hah. That's right. I threw down an 'ergo.''She gave him a pitying look. 'That's very impressive, Sam. Especially from a boy who has twenty-two different uses for the word 'dude.
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
Motto for latin countries: If you're not late, you're not on time
The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.
The difficulty of learning the dead languages does not arise from any superior abstruseness in the languages themselves, but in their being dead, and the pronunciation entirely lost. It would be the same thing with any other language when it becomes dead. The best Greek linguist that now exists does not understand Greek so well as a Grecian plowman did, or a Grecian milkmaid; and the same for the Latin, compared with a plowman or a milkmaid of the Romans; and with respect to pronunciation and idiom, not so well as the cows that she milked. It would therefore be advantageous to the state of learning to abolish the study of the dead languages, and to make learning consist, as it originally did, in scientific knowledge.
A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...
Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur.
On the third, directly before me, were embedded more polished letters: PER OMNIA SAECULA SAECULORUM.For ever and ever. In the red light, the brushed steel glowed softly, like embers. The polish letters blazed.Without a hiss, For ever and ever slid aside, as though inviting me to eternity.
___our Tim is so unmistakably a healthy extravert type. Mens stulta in corpore sano, and all that.___xactly,_ she agreed.