Daily Latin

Caesar - The Gallic War 04.07.2024 3:00 ↓

Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt. Men almost willingly believe that which they wish.

Martial - Epigrams 03.07.2024 3:08 ↓

Non est vivere, sed valere vita est. It is not to live, but to live well.

Virgil - The Aeneid 02.07.2024 2:49 ↓

Vincet amor patriae laudumque immensa cupido. Love of country and an immense desire for praise will conquer.

Pliny - Letters 01.07.2024 2:46 ↓

Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit. No book is so bad that it is not useful in some part.

Plautus - Asinaria 30.06.2024 2:59 ↓

Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit. Man is a wolf to man, not a man, when he does not know what kind he is.

Augustine - Confessions 29.06.2024 3:28 ↓

Fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum donec requiescat in te. You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.

Virgil - Georgics 28.06.2024 3:37 ↓

Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Happy is he who has been able to learn the causes of things.

Seneca - De Providentia 27.06.2024 2:44 ↓

Fortuna fortes metuit, ignavos premit. Fortune fears the brave, but crushes the cowardly.

Pliny - Natural History 26.06.2024 2:20 ↓

Nulla dies sine linea. No day without a line.

Juvenal - Satires 25.06.2024 2:31 ↓

Mens sana in corpore sano. A healthy mind in a healthy body.

Cicero - Tusculan disputations 24.06.2024 2:16 ↓

Vivere est cogitare. To live is to think.

Seneca - On the shortness of life 23.06.2024 3:06 ↓

Vita, si uti scias, longa est. Life, if you know how to use it, is long.

Tacitus - Agricola 22.06.2024 3:32 ↓

Agricolae non potestatem sed ius imperii valere maluit. Agricola preferred the rule of law to the exercise of power.

Quintilian- Institutio Oratoria 21.06.2024 2:49 ↓

Non scholae sed vitae discimus. Non scholae sed vitae discimus.

Sallust - Conspiracy of Catiline 20.06.2024 3:33 ↓

Nam idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est. For wanting the same things and not wanting the same things, this indeed is true friendship.

Ovid - Metamorphoses 19.06.2024 3:07 ↓

In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora. My mind leads me to speak of forms changed into new bodies.

Seneca - Moral letters 18.06.2024 3:04 ↓

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. The way from the earth to the stars is not easy.

Pliny - Natural History 18.06.2024 4:15 ↓

Inter omnes autem stellas luna maxime illustrat noctem suamque lucem ex sole mutuat. However, among all the stars, the moon most greatly illuminates the night and borrows its light from the sun.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations 17.06.2024 3:45 ↓

Cogita te posse vivere sine quaestione aut offensione morum alterius: nec eum semper revinctum esse apud te. Consider that you can live without questioning or being offended by another's behavior: and that he is not always bound to be with you.

Lucretius - On the nature of things 16.06.2024 3:00 ↓

Suave, mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis, e terra magnum alterius spectare laborem. It is pleasant, when the winds stir the waters of the great sea, to watch from the land the great toil of another.

Cicero - De Officiis 15.06.2024 3:23 ↓

Non nobis solum nati sumus ortusque nostri partem patria vindicat, partem amici. We are not born for ourselves alone; our country claims a part of our birth, and our friends claim a part.

Augustine - Confessions 15.06.2024 3:58 ↓

Quaerebam ubi amarem, amans amare, et oderam securitatem et vias sine muscipulis. I was seeking where I might love, loving to love, and I hated safety and paths without traps.