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Mottoes and Phrases We Are Learning
This list will continue to expand as the year progresses.
- carpe diem: seize the day
- festina lente: make haste slowly
- tempus fugit: time flies
- nosce te ipsum: know yourself
- et tu, Brute?: you too, Brutus?
- veni, vidi, vici: I came, I saw, I conquered
- caveat emptor: Let the buyer beware!
- terra incognita: unknown territories
- semper paratus: always prepared
- divide et impera: divide and rule
- alea iacta est: the die is cast
- citius, altius, fortius: faster, higher, stronger
(Olympics)
- veritas: truth (Harvard University)
- disciplina praesidium civitatis: disciplined learning is
the guard of civilization (University of Texas)
- ad astra per aspera: to the stars through
difficulties (motto of the state of Kansas)
- labor omnia vincit: effort conquers all (motto of the state
of Oklahoma)
- persona non grata: an unwelcome person
- errare humanum est: to err is human
- de gustibus non disputandum est: you can't argue about
taste
- cave canem: beware of the dog
- facilis descensus Averno: going to Hades is easy
- mens sana in corpore sano: a sound mind in a sound body
- nolo contendere: I don't wish to contest (the charge)
- quid pro quo: something for something
- dum spiro, spero: while I breathe, I hope
- damnant quod non intelligunt: they condemn what they don't
understand
- bona fide: in good faith
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