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to such heights of evil are men driven by religion: Lucretius, De rerum natura I.101 [2] Quoted by Christopher Hitchens in ch. 2 of God Is Not Great. tarde venientibus ossa: To the late are left the bones Te occidere possunt sed te edere non possunt nefas est: They can kill you, but they cannot eat you, it is against the law.
Down the rabbit hole; backtranslation, not a genuine Latin phrase; see Down the rabbit hole. desiderantes meliorem patriam: they desired a better land: From Hebrews 11:16; the motto of the Order of Canada. Deus caritas est: God Is Love: Title and first words of the first encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI.
Translated into Latin from Baudelaire's L'art pour l'art. Motto of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. While symmetrical for the logo of MGM, the better word order in Latin is "Ars artis gratia". ars longa, vita brevis: art is long, life is short: Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1, translating a phrase of Hippocrates that is often used out of context. The "art ...
Vince malum bono or Vince in bono malum is a Latin phrase meaning Overcome evil with good or Defeat Evil with Good.. The motto comes from partial quotation from the Bible, Saint Paul's Epistle to the Romans, 12:21: "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good" (noli vinci a malo sed vince in bono malum; Greek: Μὴ νικῶ ὑπὸ τοῦ κακοῦ, ἀλλὰ νίκα ἐν ...
choose the lesser evil so a greater evil may be averted; the lesser of two evils principle [6] mirabile dictu: wonderful to tell: Virgil: mirabile visu: wonderful to see: A Roman phrase used to describe a wonderful event/happening. mirum videtur quod sit factum iam diu: Does it seem wonderful [merely] because it was done a long time/so long ago?
This is a list of Wikipedia articles of Latin phrases and their translation into English. To view all phrases on a single, lengthy document, see: List of Latin phrases (full) The list is also divided alphabetically into twenty pages:
we stand against by evil: The motto of the Jungle Patrol in The Phantom. The phrase actually violates Latin grammar because of a mistranslation from English, as the preposition contra takes the accusative case. The correct Latin rendering of "we stand against evil" would be "stamus contra malum ". stante pede: with a standing foot "Immediately ...
you should not make evil in order that good may be made from it: More simply, "don't do wrong to do right". The direct opposite of the phrase "the ends justify the means". non hos quaesitum munus in usus: A gift sought for no such purpose: Virgil, Aeneid, 4:647, of the sword with which Dido will commit suicide. "Not for so dire an enterprise ...