#latin

If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#christianity #clarity #display #hoarding #horror

Ostendes tuum et ostendam meus? ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#latin #maggie-stiefvater #ronan-lynch #the-raven-boys #humor

Latin is already a dead language, man... don't make it any deader. ↗

— Jerry Scott

#language #latin #zits #humor

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. ↗

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

#action #annihilate #annihilating #desires #every

Facilis descensus Averno Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras Hoc opus labor est ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace #latin #mortal-instruments #clary-fray

Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes rule. Had I stumbled on the lair of dangerous plant geneticists? ↗

— Ben Aaronovitch

#latin #humor

Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny. ↗

— Donna Rice

#before #believed #between #boat #choice

Homo homini lupis est. ↗

— Plautus

#life-is-war #schopenhauer #life

...I threw out all those Latin words - the ones that end in 'ion' - the ones that never quite describe you... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #truth #undescribable #love

In Spiritu, Ex Corda, Practica (In the spirit, from the heart, working...[in the world]) ↗

— St. Ignatius Loyola Jesuits

#inspirational #jesuits #latin-motto #inspirational