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the Way, the Truth, [and] the Life: Words of Jesus Christ in John 14:6; motto of many institutions viam sapientiae monstrabo tibi: I will show you the way of wisdom: Motto of DePaul University: vice: in place of: The word refers to one who acts in the place of another.
The love of Christ impels us or The love of Christ drives us: The motto of the Sisters of Charity [25] Caritas in veritate: Charity in truth: Pope Benedict XVI's third encyclical [26] carpe diem: seize the day: An exhortation to live for today. From Horace, Odes I, 11.8. Carpere refers to plucking of flowers or fruit.
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:
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 labour and honour ...
The practice fell out of fashion and into obscurity with the decline in Latin literacy. si vis amari ama: If you want to be loved, love: This is often attributed to the Roman philosopher Seneca, found in the sixth of his letters to Lucilius. si vis pacem, para bellum: if you want peace, prepare for war: From Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De ...
know thyself: A reference to the Greek γνῶθι σεαυτόν (gnothi seauton), inscribed on the pronaos of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, according to the Greek periegetic writer Pausanias (10.24.1). Rendered also with nosce te ipsum, temet nosce ("thine own self know") appears in The Matrix translated as "know thyself". tempora heroica ...
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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