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Archimedes (278-212 B.C.)
Noli turbare circulos meos.
Do not disturb my circles. (According to Plutarchos A. said this to a
Roman soldier who killed him against orders when Syracuse was conquered.)
Augustinus (354-430 A.D.)
Audiatur et alters pars.
Hear also the opposite party. (Different versions exist, among them one by Aiskylos.)
Hermann Boerhaave (1668-1738)
Simplex sigillum verum.
Simplicity is the sign of truth.
Bonifacius VIII (Benedetto Gaetani, 1235?-1303)
Qui tacet consentit.
He who is silent consents.
Cato Philosophus (~300 B.C.)
Legere et non intelligere neglegere est.
To read and not understand is to not read.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
Honor est praemium virtutis.
Honour is Virtues reward.
Cibi condimentum fames.
Hunger is the best spice.
Suum cuique.
To each his own.
Dives est, cui tanta possesio est, ut nihil optet amplius.
Rich is he who doesn't want more.
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Liberae sunt nostrae cogitaciones.
Free are our thoughts.
Renè Descartes (1596-1650)
Dubium sapientiae initium.
Doubt is the beginning of wisdom.
Cogito ergo sum.
I think therefore I am.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 B.C.)
Sapere aude.
Dare to be wise.
Chr. Wilh. Kindeeben (17th Century)
Gaudeamus igitur, juvenes dum sumus.
Let us therefore be glad while we are young.
Carl von Linné (1707-1778)
Homo sapiens.
The wise man.
Titus Livius (59 B.C.-17 A.D.)
Potius sero quam numquam.
Better late than never.
Gnaeus Pompeius (106-48 B.C.)
Navigare necesse est, vivere non est necesse.
To sail is necessary, to live is not.
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (35-95 A.D.)
Mendacem memorem esse oportet.
A liar must have good memory.
Vestis virum reddit.
Clothes make the man.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.-65 A.D.)
Qui dedit beneficium taceat; narret qui accepit.
May he who does a good deed be quiet; may he who receives it tell about it.
Qui timide rogat, docet negare.
He who timidly asks invites refusal.
Gaius Tranquillus Suetonius (70?-140?)
Lapsus memoriae.
Memory lapse.
Festina lente!
Hurry slowly!
Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.)
Omnia vincit Amor: et nos cedamus Amori.
Love conquers all: let us therefore surrender to Love.