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veritas omnia vincit: truth conquers all: A quotation from a letter of Jan Hus; frequently used as a motto veritas, probitas, iustitia: truth, honesty, justice: Motto of the University of Indonesia: veritas, unitas, caritas: truth, unity, [and] love: Motto of Villanova University, United States veritas vincit: truth conquers: Cf. "veritas omnia ...
amor vincit omnia: love conquers all: Originally from Virgil, Eclogues X, 69: omnia vincit amor: et nos cedamus amori ("love conquers all: let us too surrender to love"). The phrase is inscribed on a bracelet worn by the Prioress in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
labor omnia vincit: Hard work conquers all. Popular as a motto; derived from a phrase in Virgil's Eclogue (X.69: omnia vincit Amor – "Love conquers all"); a similar phrase also occurs in his Georgics I.145. laborare pugnare parati sumus: To work, (or) to fight; we are ready: Motto of the California Maritime Academy: labore et honore: By ...
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:
Latin name of the Octave of Easter. in articulo mortis: at the point of death: in bono veritas: truth is in the good: in camera: in the chamber: In secret. See also camera obscura. in casu (i.c.) in the event: In this case. in cauda venenum: the poison is in the tail
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" referred to in the original aphorism was the craft of medicine, which took a lifetime ...
This page is one of a series listing English translations of notable Latin phrases, such as veni, vidi, vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases, as ancient Greek rhetoric and literature started centuries before the beginning of Latin literature in ancient Rome. [1] This list covers the letter F.
omnia dicta fortiora si dicta Latina: everything said [is] stronger if said in Latin: or "everything sounds more impressive when said in Latin"; a more common phrase with the same meaning is quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur (whatever said in Latin, seems profound) omnia in mensura et numero et pondere disposuisti