Ab urbe condita (a.u.c.). Since the foundation of RomeThe your of the foundation of Rome (753 BC) was the starting-point for the Roman chronology

Memento mori! Remember, that you have to die one day!

Veni, vidi, vici. I think everyone knows this one...

Alea iacta est. ...and this one, too

Noli turbare circulos meos! Dont's disturb my circles it is said that these were the last words of the famous Aristoteles before he was killed by a Roman soldier when Syrakrus was captured by the Romans

Quo vadis? Where do you go? read the bible!

Nomen est omen. The name is the omen

Mors certa, hora incerta. The death is sure, the time (hour) not

Hannibal ante portas. Hannibal is in front of the gates. Errare humanum est. to err is human Pacta sunt servanda. Contracts have to be hold

Mos maiorum. morals of the ancestors

Cave canem! Beware of the dog

Ex oriente lux. The light comes from the East Vita brevis, ars longa. life is short, art is long. Latine version of a proverb by Hippokrates

Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses. If you had been silent, you would have stayed a philosophist this means: if you had not said something wrong but nothing, the others would still think that you are intelligent

Hoc signo vincens. under this signal you'll win

Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. By the way: I think Carthago has to be destroyed

Homo homini lupus. A man is an enemy to a man. Hobbes (1588-1679).

Quod erat demonstrandum. oh - we all love mathematics

Non scholae, sed vitae discimus. We do not learn for school but for life Omnia mea mecum porto. Everything I posses is within me

Quidquid agis, prudenter agas et respice finem! Whatever you do, do it carefully and think about the results
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