SententiaHodierna

School of Ancient Languages & Text Studies at North-West University, South Africa

[SententiaHodierna @alts_nwu]

"Fortuna vitrea est: tum cum splendet frangitur."
Fortune is like glass: when it shines it breaks.
#Syrus #loqlat

[SententiaHodierna @alts_nwu]

"Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronte movebo"
If I can't persuade the gods above, I will move all hell.
#Vergil #Aeneid #loqlat

[SententiaHodierna @alts_nwu]

"Ita vitast hominum quasi quom ludas tesseris: si illud quod maxume opus est iactu non cadit, illud quod cecidit forte, id arte ut corrigas."
Human life is like shooting dice: if what you most desire doesn't land with the cast, you must make the most of what has landed.
#Terence

[SententiaHodierna @alts_nwu]

"Sed fugit interea, fugit inreparabile tempus."
But time flees still, time that will not return.
#Vergil #Eclogues #loqlat

[SententiaHodierna @alts_nwu]

"Inopiae desunt multa, avaritiae omnia."
Poverty is a lack of many things, greed of everything.
#Syrus #loqlat

[SententiaHodierna @alts_nwu]

"Sui cuique fingunt fortunam."
Character fashions fate.
#Nepos #AtticiVita #loqlat

[SententiaHodierna @alts_nwu]

"Mea mihi conscientia pluris est quam omnium sermo."
My own conscience is more to me than what the world says.
#Cicero #Epistulae #loqlat

[SententiaHodierna @alts_nwu]

"Tui animi compote es, ne quid fraudis stuprique ferocia pariat."
Be master of your mind so that your untamed nature not bear any deceit or disgrace.
#AppiusClaudius #sententia #loqlat

[SententiaHodierna @alts_nwu]

"Mendacem memorem esse oportere."
A liar should have a good memory.
#Quintilian #InstitutioOratoria #loqlat

[SententiaHodierna @alts_nwu]

"Multa magis quam multorum lectione formanda mens."
The mind should be formed by reading deeply rather than widely.
#Quintilian #InstitutioOratoria #loqlat

[SententiaHodierna @alts_nwu]

"Multo enim multoque se ipsum quam hostem superare operosius est."
It is harder, much harder, to conquer oneself than one's enemy.
#Valerius #Memorabilia #loqlat

[SententiaHodierna @alts_nwu]

"Iniqua numquam regna perpetuo manent."
Unjust rule does not last forever.
#Seneca #Medea #loqlat

[SententiaHodierna @alts_nwu]

"Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt."
People readily believe what they want to believe.
#Caesar #DeBelloGallico #loqlat

[SententiaHodierna @alts_nwu]

"Aliudque cupido, mens aliud suadet. Video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor."
Desire suggests one thing, reason another. I see and approve of the better, but I follow the worse.
#Ovid #Metamorphoses #loqlat

[SententiaHodierna @alts_nwu]

"Omnia fert aetas, animum quoque."
Time carries off everything, even memory.
#Vergil #Eclogues #loqlat

[SententiaHodierna @alts_nwu]

"Ut quisque est vir optimus, ita difficillime esse alios improbos suspicatur."
The nobler a man is, the harder for him to suspect that others are ignoble.
#Cicero #Epistulae #loqlat

[SententiaHodierna @alts_nwu]

"Ubi nihil erit quod scribas, it ipsum scribito."
Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.
#Cicero #Epistulae #loqlat

[SententiaHodierna @alts_nwu]

"Et mihi res, non me rebus, subiungere conor."
I try to suit situations to me, not me to situations.
#Horace #Epistulae #loqlat

[SententiaHodierna @alts_nwu]

"Possunt, quia possunt videntur."
They are capable because they seem to be.
#Vergil #Aeneid #loqlat

[SententiaHodierna @alts_nwu]

"Memento aequam mentem in rebus arduis servare."
Remember to keep an even mind in difficult times.
#Horace #Odes #loqlat