#latin

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

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#am #banker #calculating #feel #fortunately