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Famous Phrases
Wise Advice
State Mottos
From the Vulgate
100
et cetera
What is "and the others"?
100
caveat emptor
What is "let the buyer beware"?
100
fortis fortuna adiuvat (Terence)
What is "fortune favors/helps the brave'?
100
labor omnia vincit (Oklahoma)
What is "work conquers all things"? See also "amor omnia vincit"
100
vidi caelum novum et terram novam (Revelation 21.1)
What is "I saw the new heaven and the new earth"?
200
ad nauseam
What is "to the point of sickness"?
200
carpe diem (Horace)
What is "seize the day"?
200
serva me, servabo te (Petronius Arbiter)
What is "save me and I will save you"?
200
virtute et armis (Mississippi)
What is "by valor and by arms"?
200
Sī Deus prō nōbis, quis contrā nōs? (Romans 8.31)
What is "If God is for us, who is against us?"?
300
mea culpa
What is "my fault"?
300
in vino veritas (Pliny the Elder)
What is "there is truth in wine"?
300
mulce semper feles sacra!
What is "always pet the sacred cat"?
300
dum spiro spero (South Carolina)
What is "while I breathe, I hope"?
300
Multī sunt enim vocāti, paucī autem ēlēctī (Matthew 22.14)
What is "For many are called, but few are chosen"?
400
persona non grata
What is "an unwelcome person"?
400
cogito ergo sum (Descartes)
What is "I think therefore I am"?
400
si vis pacem para bellum (Vegetius)
What is "if you want peace, prepare for war"?
400
si quaeris peninsulam amoenam, circumspice (Michigan)
What is "if you are seeking a pleasant peninsula, look around you"? Inspired by "si monumentum requiris, circumspice"
400
Arbor bona frūctūs bonōs facit; mala autem arbor frūctūs malōs facit. (Matthew 7.17)
What is "A good tree produces good fruit; but a bad tree produces bad fruit"?
500
ipso facto
What is "by the fact itself"? "Then the kids stared at me, as if a man wearing a necktie was ipso facto cause for suspicion"
500
veni vidi vici (Julius Caesar)
What is "I came, I saw, I conquered"?
500
transit umbra, lux permanet
What is "shadow passes, light remains"?
500
ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem (Massachussetts)
What is "he seeks with the sword a quiet peace under liberty"?
500
Vīditque Deus cūncta quae fēcerat, et erant valdē bona (Genesis 1.31)
What is "And God saw all the things which he had made, and they were very good"?
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