Poesie

stcrlghts:

(in case you wanted to know because i fucking love this language) 

• ad astra per aspera - to the stars through difficulties 
  
• alis volat propriis - he flies by his own wings 
• amantium irae amoris integratio est - the quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love 
• ars longa, vita brevis - art is long, life is short 
• aut insanity homo, aut versus facit - the fellow is either mad or he is composing verses 
• dum spiro spero - while I breathe, I hope 
• ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem - with the sword, she seeks peace under liberty 
• exigo a me non ut optimus par sim sed ut malis melior - I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better than the bad
• experiential docet - experience teaches 
• helluo librorum - a glutton for books (bookworm) 
• in libras libertas - in books, freedom 
• littera scripta manet - the written letter lasts 
• mens regnum bona possidet - an honest heart is a kingdom in itself 
• mirabile dictu - wonderful to say 
• nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - there is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part 
• omnia iam fient quae posse negabam - everything which I used to say could not happen, will happen now 
• poeta nascitur, non fit - the poet is born, not made 
• qui dedit benificium taceat; narrat qui accepit - let him who has done a good deed be silent; let him who has received it tell it 
• saepe ne utile quidem est scire quid futurum sit - often, it is not advantageous to know what will be 
• sedit qui timuit ne non succederet - he who feared he would not succeed sat still 
• si vis pacem, para bellum - if you want peace, prepare for war 
• struit insidias lacrimis cum feminia plorat - when a woman weeps, she is setting traps with her tears 
• sub rosa - under the rose 
• trahimir omnes laudis studio - we are led on by our eagerness for praise
• urbem latericium invenit, marmoream reliquit - he found the city a city of bricks; he left it a city of marble 
• ut incepit fidelis sic permanet - as loyal as she began, so she remains

(via pemberlaey)