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"LIFE IS SHORT, ART ENDURES"- ars longa vita brevis

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven

Time and tide stayeth for no man

Take the time to smell the roses

Fortune favours the bold - audaces fortuna invat

all that glitters is not gold - non teneas avrvm totvm qvod splendet

scienta es potentia - knowledge is power

home is where the heart is

amor vincit omnia - love conquers all

beauty is in the eye of the beholder

what is this life, if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.

Bis vivit qui bene vivit - HE LIVES TWICE WHO LIVES WELL

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home

THUS PASSES THE GLORY OF THE WORLD - sic transit gloria mundi

"IN WINE, TRUTH" - in vino veritas

Virtue is it's own reward - ipsa qvidem virtvm pretivm sibi

Fugit irreparabile tempus - time flies

something cottage

the old vicarage

To much of a good thing can be wonderful

After a storm comes a calm.

Discretion is the better part of valour.

Actions speak louder than words.

As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

After dinner rest awhile, after supper walk a mile.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Better late than never.

Do as you would be done by.

Every path has its puddle

English Translation: Nothing dries more quickly than a tear.

Nomen est omen.

English Translation: The meaning is in the name.

Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo.

English Translation: I was not, I was, I am not, I don't care. (found on tombstones abbreviated NFFNSNC)

Non omnia possumus omnes.

English Translation: All of us cannot do everything.

Non scholae, sed vitae discimus.

English Translation: We don't learn from school but from life.

Nulla dies sine linea.

English Translation: No day without a line.

Nulla est medicina sine lingua Latina.

English Translation: No medicine without Latin.

Nulla regula sine exceptione.

English Translation: No rule without exception.

Nulla res tam necessaria est quam medicina.

Repetitio est mater studiorum.

English Translation: Repetition is the mother of study.

Repetita iuvant.

English Translation: Repetition is useful, or Repeating things helps.

Medicus curat, natura sanat.

English Translation: The doctor cares [for his patient], nature heals [him].

Memento mori.

English Translation: Remember your mortality. Also, ironically, Remember to die. it is the motto of the Friars of Trappa.

Munit haec et altera vincit.

English Translation: One defends and the other conquers (motto of Nova Scotia.)

Salus aegroti suprema lex.

English Translation: The well-being of the patient is the most important law.

Sic transit gloria mundi.

English Translation: Thus passes the glory of the world. In Bible; repeated during the coronation of the Pope.

Similia similibus curantur.

English Translation: Like cures like.

Sine labore non erit panis in ore.

English Translation: Without work there won't be any bread in your mouth.

Si decem habeas linguas, mutum esse addecet.

English Translation: Even if you had ten tongues, you should hold them all.

Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.

English Translation: If you had kept your silence, you would have stayed a philosopher.

Si vis pacem, para bellum.

English Translation: If you want peace, prepare war.

Si vis pacem, para iustitiam.

English Translation: If you want peace, prepare justice.

Summum ius summa inuria.

English Translation: More law, less justice.

 

 

 

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