Tuesday, 5 February 2008

What I have written, I have written.

I like these few Latin sayings I am lifting out from a website.

"Quod scripsi, scripsi." (What I have written, I have written--Pilate. And he probably did speak in Latin.)

"Veni, vidi, vici" (I came, I saw, I conquered. (Caesar))

"Exegi monumentum aere perennius." (I have erected a monument more lasting than bronze. (Horace))

"Carpe Diem!" (Seize the day (Horace))

(at this juncture, I am starting to wish I can read and speak Latin...)

"Veritas Lux Mea" (The truth enlightens me / The truth is my light (Motto of Seoul National University in South Korea)) --originally intended to be the motto of the Taylor's MUN club but KV disagreed and said that people cannot read Latin. I couldn't agree more.

Homines libenter quod volunt credunt. Men freely believe what they want to. (used by Julius Caesar)

"non omnia possumus omnes" (We all cannot do everything. (As Virgil explains in the Aeneid, no one has expertise in all fields.) )

"nemo me impune laccessit" (no one harms me unpunished (the motto of Scotland for roughly a thousand years or so))

"Meum pactum dictum" (My word is my bond)

"Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam." (to the greater glory of God - motto of the Society of Jesus)

"De omnibus dubitandum" (Everything should be questioned - Karl Marx) --including the theories you expound....

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Excellent. More please. Can you recommend a good website for Latin translation and/or quotes?