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[d_aulnoy]

So I was looking for a motto to engrave on a piece of jewelry with a story behind it, and I came across a listing of Latin sayings ...  Yeah.  After the cut.

*Anicularum lucubrationes - Old wives' tales
Audentes fortuna juvat - Fortune favors the bold. (Virgil)
Aut vincere aut mori - Either conquer or die
Cacoethes scribendi - An insatiable urge to write. (Juvenal)
Cave canem, te necet lingendo - Beware of the dog, he may lick you to death
Cave ne ante ullas catapultas ambules - If I were you, I wouldn't walk in front of any catapults
Cave quid dicis, quando, et cui - Beware what you say, when, and to whom
Crudelius est quam mori semper timere mortem - It is more cruel to always fear death than to die. (Seneca)
Cui dono lepidum novum libellum? - To whom do I give my new elegant little book? (Catullus)
Feles mala! - Bad kitty!
Hostis hvmani generis - Enemy of the human race
Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros - Life is not a bowl of cherries, or, literally, Fire tests gold; adversity tests strong men
In aere aedificare - Build (castles) in the air. (St. Augustine)
Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum europe vincendarum - Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe
Isto pensitaris? - You get paid for this crap?
Ita erat quando hic adveni - It was that way when I got here
Mater tua criceta fuit, et pater tuo redoluit bacarum sambucus - Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries
*Melius frangi quam flecti - It is better to break than to bend
*Nam et ipsa scientia potestas es - Knowledge is power. (Sir Francis Bacon)
Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum! - Don't you dare erase my hard disk!
*Ne humanus crede - Trust no human
Neutiquam erro - I am not lost
Nill illigitimi carborundum - Do not let the bastards get you down
Noli nothis permittere te terere - Don’t let the bastards get you down
Non Gradus Anus Rodentum! - Not Worth A Rats Ass!
Non multa, sed multum - Not many, but much. (Meaning, not quantity but quality) (Plinius)
Omnia mea mecum porto - All that is mine, I carry with me. (My wisdom is my greatest wealth) (Cicero)
Postatem obscuri lateris nescitis - You do not know the power of the dark side
Potes currere sed te occulere non potes - You can run, but you can't hide
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari? - How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Revera linguam latinam vix cognovi - I don’t really know all that much Latin
Ultima ratio regum - The final argument of kings
Unitam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant - May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy
Urbanus et instructus - A gentleman and a scholar
Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant! - May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy!
Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur - Oh! Was I speaking Latin again? Silly me. Sometimes it just sort of slips out
Valui ad satanam in computatrum meum invocandum - I succeeded in summoning satan into my computer
Veni, vidi, vici - I came, I saw, I conquered. (Julius Caesar)
Verveces tui similes pro ientaculo mihi appositi sunt - I have jerks like you for breakfast
Viri sunt viri - Men are slime
Vulnerant omnes, ultima necat - Every (hour) wounds, the last kills. (sundial inscription)

I have no idea if these are correct, so, those fluent in Latin, feel free to make corrections: the ones that I'm seriously considering are marked by asterisks, the rest are interesting or amusing.  Also, feel free to vote as to which one of these ought to be [further] immortalized in gold ...

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[merrymaia.livejournal.com]

Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant! - May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy!

Love it!