#latin

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. ↗

— Unknown Philosopher

#inspirational #latin #philosophy #truth #wisdom

Fas est ab hoste doceri. One should learn even from one's enemies. ↗

— Ovid

#latin #philosophy #enemy

I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together. ↗

— John Stamos

#barry #barry white #been #calculating #cook

Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.) ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#latin #ignorance

There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#latin #language

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes] ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#hell #latin #motto #comedy

I guess it all depends on whom you ask and when you ask. Race, I've learned, is in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#hispanic-american #identity #latina #latina-american #latino-american

Ut haec ipsa qui non sentiat deorum vim habere is nihil omnino sensurus esse videatur." If any man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all. ↗

— Horace

#classics #horace #latin #classics

Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#español #first-lines #latin-america #spanish #spanish

A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought is that we're not fashionable anymore. We're here to stay. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#anymore #arrived #couple #everything #fashionable