Výroky
- Quid rides?...De te fabula narratur.
What are you laughing at? The joke's on you. - [ Horace
] - Non omnes qui habent citharam sunt citharoedi.
Not all those who own a musical instrument are musicians. - [ Varro
] - Vos vestros servate, meos mihi linquite mores.
You cling to your own ways and leave mine to me. - [ Petrarch
] - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est.
Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - [ Cicero
] - Rident stolidi verba Latina.
Fools laugh at the Latin language. - [ Ovid
] - Gladiator in arena consilium capit.
The gladiator is making his plan in the arena(i.e., too late). - [ Seneca
] - Culpam poena premit comes.
Punishment closely follows crime as its companion. - [ Horace
] - Trahimur omnes laudis studio.
We are all led by our eagerness for praise. - [ Cicero
] - Etiam capillus unus habet umbram.
Even one hair has a shadow. - [ Publilius Syrus
] - Non est ad astra mollis e terris via.
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars. - [ Seneca
] - Amor tussisque non celantur.
Love, and a cough, are not concealed. - [ Ovid
] - A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.
A boar is often held by a not-so-large dog. - [ Ovid
] - Patria est communis omnium parens.
Our native land is the common parent of us all. - [ Cicero
] - Quos amor verus tenuit, tenebit.
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding. - [ Seneca
] - Tarditas et procrastinatio odiosa est.
Delay--putting things off until tomorrow--is hateful. - [ Cicero
] - O praeclarum custodem ovium lupum!
An excellent protector of sheep, the wolf! - [ Cicero
] - Materiam superabat opus.
The workmanship was better than the subject matter. - [ Ovid
] - Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultra.
Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man. - [ Seneca
] - Ora et labora.
Pray and labor. - [ St.Benedict
] - Qui non est hodie cras minus aptus erit.
He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow. - [ Ovid
] - Colossus magnitudinem suam servabit etiam si steterit in puteo.
A giant will keep his size even though he will have stood in a well. - [ Seneca
] - Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes.
The divine nature produced the fields, human skill has built cities. - [ Tibullus
] - Num barbarorum Romulus rex fuit?
Romulus was not a king of barbarians, was he? - [ Cicero
] - Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant.
Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. - [ Curtius Rufus
] - Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas.
Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses. - [ Ovid
] - Nullum saeculum magnis ingeniis clausum est.
To great talents no era is closed. - [ Seneca
] - Excitabat fluctus in simpulo.
He was stirring up billows in a ladle.(He was raising a tempest in a teapot.) - [ Cicero
] - Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit.
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. - [ Seneca
] - Ab ovo usque ad mala.
From the egg right to the fruits.(From soup to nuts.) - [ Horace
] - Aspirat primo Fortuna labori.
Fortune smiles upon our first effort. - [ Virgil
] - In virtute sunt multi ascensus.
In excellence there are many degrees. - [ Cicero
] - Salus populi suprema lex.
The safety of the people is the highest law. - [ Cicero
] - Gutta cavat lapidem.
Dripping hollows out rock. - [ Ovid
] - Ipsa scientia potestas est.
Knowledge itself is power. - [ Bacon
] - Ipsa scientia potestas est.
Knowledge itself is power. - [ Bacon
] - Omnia iam fient fieri quae posse negabam.
Everything which I used to say could not happen will happen now. - [ Ovid
] - Mendacem oportet esse memorem.
A liar must be good at remembering. - [ Quintilian
] - Leve fit, quod bene fertur, onus.
The burden which is borne well becomes light. - [ Ovid
] - Mus uni non fidit antro.
A mouse does not rely on just one hole. - [ Plautus
] - Quaedam iura non scripta sed omnibus scriptis certiora sunt.
Some laws are unwritten but they are better established than all written ones. - [ Seneca Rhetor
]
