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Enhance your Medieval Kitchen with these medieval wall sayings
Non ut edam vivo, sed ut vivam edo.
English Translation: I don't live to eat, but I eat to live.
Manus manum lavat.
English Translation: One hand washes the other.
Nil sine numini.
English Translation: Nothing without Providence.
Mens sana in corpore sano.
English Translation: A healthy spirit in a healthy body.
Vae victis.
English Translation: Woe to the conquered.
Ventis secundis, tene cursum.
English Translation: Go with the flow.
Verba docent, exempla trahunt.
English Translation: Words instruct, illustrations lead.
Vincit qui patitur.
English Translation: He who perseveres, conquers.
Vox populi, vox dei.
English Translation: The voice of the people is the voice of God.
Naturo abhorret a vacuo.
English Translation: Nature abhors a vacuum.
Nec Hercules contra plures.
Nemo me impune lacessit.
English Translation: No-one attacks me with impunity, the Scots national motto.
Neque ignorare medicum oportet quae sit aegri natura.
Nihil lacrima citius arescit.
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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