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Omnes vulnerant, ultima necat. (All [hours] wound; the last kills.) [11] [Pulvis et] umbra sumus. (We are [dust and] shadow.) [14] Serius est quam cogitas. (It is later than you think.) [11] Sic labitur ætas. (Thus passes a lifetime.) [11] Sic vita fluit, dum stare videtur. (Life flows away as it seems to stay the same.) [11] Ultima latet ut ...
Timepieces have been used to illustrate that the time of the living on Earth grows shorter with each passing minute. Public clocks would be decorated with mottos such as ultima forsan ("perhaps the last" [hour]) or vulnerant omnes, ultima necat ("they all wound, and the last kills").
Omnes homines sunt asini vel homines et asini sunt asini: All men are donkeys or men and donkeys are donkeys: a sophisma proposed and solved by Albert of Saxony (philosopher) omnes vulnerant, postuma necat, or, omnes feriunt, ultima necat: all [the hours] wound, last one kills: usual in clocks, reminding the reader of death omnia cum deo: all ...
A frequent motto within the U.S labor movement, the phrase is a historically significant slogan.Used by the earliest U.S labor unions such as the American Federation of Labor and other precursors to the modern AFL-CIO, the motto continues to be a traditional and defining statement of purpose on contemporary labor union emblems including the International Union of Operating Engineers and the ...
O vos omnes is a responsory, originally sung as part of Roman Catholic liturgies for Holy Week, and now often sung as a motet. The text is adapted from the Latin Vulgate translation of Lamentations 1:12. It was often set, especially in the sixteenth century, as part of the Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday. Some of the most famous ...
Bellum omnium contra omnes, a Latin phrase meaning "the war of all against all", is the description that Thomas Hobbes gives to human existence in the state-of-nature thought experiment that he conducts in De Cive (1642) and Leviathan (1651).
ab uno disce omnes: from one, learn all: Refers to situations in which a single example or observation indicates a general or universal truth. Coined in Virgil, Aeneid II 65-6. Example: in the court of King Silas in the American television series Kings. ab urbe condita (AUC) from the founding of the City
Ultima venturi quod erant oracula regis, Qui toti veniens mundo cum pace, placebit, Ut voluit, nostra vestitus carne decenter, In cunctis humilis, castam pro matre puellam Deliget, haec alias forma praecesserit omnes. Now my most recent words shall remain certain and true, because they were the last oracles of the king to come,