Latin Quotes♥?

Question

Does anyone have any good Latin quotes about life, love, etc.. in Ancient Latin, to share?

I am currently learning Latin and would love to hear some of the quotes and translations.

Answer 1

Here are two quotes on life and love from the ancient Roman poet, Martial (AD c. 40 - c. 104):

"Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere 'Vivam':
Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie."
(Believe me, wise men don't say 'I shall live to do that';
tomorrow's life's too late; live today.)

"Difficilis facilis, iucundus acerbus est idem:
Nec tecum possum vivere nec sine te."
(Difficult or easy, pleasant or bitter, you are the same you:
I cannot live with you -- or without you.)

Here is a famous poem from the Roman poet Catullus (c. 84 - c. 54 BC) on love:

"Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus,
Rumoresque senum severiorum
Omnes unius aestimemus assis.
Soles occidere et redire possunt:
Nobis c um semel occidit brevis lux
Nox est perpetua una dormienda."
(Let us live, my Lesbia, and let us love,
and let us reckon all the murmurs of censorious old men
as worth one farthing.
Suns can set and come again:
for us, when once our brief light has set,
one everlasting night is to be slept.)

And. to finish, here is a serious quote from the Roman historian, Tacitus (AD c. 56 - after 117) on life in time of war:

"Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant."
(They make it a wilderness and call it peace.)

Answer 2

my favorite thing I have ever read in Latin :

dicit:sed mulier cupido quod dicit amanti,
in vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua.

so she says, but what a woman says to her eager lover
should be written on the wind and swift water.
Catullus Carmina 70.3-4 (Poem 70, lines 3-4)

or
Ad mortem te, Catilina, duci iussu consulis iam pridem oportebat
To death, Catiline, you ought to have been led already some time ago by the decree of the consul.
Cicero In Catlinam I 1.10-11

Answer 3

In nomine Senatus et Populus Quae Roma
This was the motto of the legions. It was a reminder that they served in the name of the Senate and People of Rome.
The Legion standards bore the logo SPQR as an abreviation.

Answer 4

life is easy

Answer 5

A few years ago a family member gave me a T-shirt that reads, "Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habis."

Answer 6

Res Ipsa Loquitur - "the thing speaks for itself"

That was a fun one in law school.

Answer 7

Cogito, ergo sum.
- I think, therefore I am.

Cogito, ergo doleo.
- I think, therefore I am depressed.

Answer 8

y tu, Brutus?

Answer 9

Will these do?