Forma viros neglecta decet - neglect of appearance becomes men." - Ovid.
"Longum iter est per præcepta, breve et efficax per exempla - Teaching by precept is a long road, but brief and beneficial is the way by example." - Seneca.
"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is sweet and proper to die for one's country." - used ironically in a poem by Wilfred Owen from an Ode by Horace
"Vini, vidi, vici - I came, I saw, I conquered." - Julius Caesar.
"Acta est fabula, plaudite! - The play is over, applaud!" - last words of Emperor Augustus.
"Scio me nihil scire - I know that I know nothing," Socrates, translated from the Greek.
"Memoria est thesaurus omnium rerum e custos - Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things." - Cicero.
"Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas - Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses." - Ovid.
"Facte nova virtute, puer; sic itur ad astra - Go on and increase in valour, young man; thus is the path to the stars." - Virgil.
"Virtus est medium vitiorum et utrinque reductum - Virtue is the middle between two vices, and is equally removed from either extreme." - Horace.
"Semita certe tranquillæ per virtutem patet unica vitæ - only one path in this life leads to tranquility: the path of virtue." - Juvenal
"Absentem qui rodit amicum, qui non defendit, alio culpante; hic niger est; hunc tu, Romane, caveto - He who attacks an absent friend, or who does not defend him when spoken ill of by another; that man is a dark character; you, Romans, beware of him." - Horace
"Abstineas igitur damnandis; hujus enim vel una potens ratio est, ne crimina nostra sequantur ex nobis geniti; quoniam dociles imitandis turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus - Let us refrain from doing ill; for one powerful reason, lest our children should follow our crimes; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved." - Juvenal)
"Et tu, Brute (filie mi) - And you, Brutus (son of mine)." Said by Julius Caesar to Brutus who was about to assisinate him.
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These quotes prove that even if, many think that the Latin language is a dead language, but it is quite vital in many contemporary circles, including medicine and religion, particularly as the official sacramental language of the Roman Catholic Church since the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
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