Courage without luck

Audaces fortuna iuvat

"Fortune favors the brave."

Virgil, Aeneid

Tell me the whole story

Audiatur et altera pars.

The other part should be heard as well.

Middle of the road

Medio tutissimus ibis

"In the middle shall you walk the safest"

Ovid

The divine rights of kings

A Deo rex, a rege lex

"The king is from God, the law from the king"

James I of England

Youth is wasted on the young

Gaudeamus igitur iuvenes dum sumus

"Thus let us enjoy ourselves as long as we are young."

The power of thought

Mens agitat molem

"Mind moves the mass"

Go on, eat another mars bar.......

Facilis descensus Averno

"The descent to hell is easy."

The Hobbesian State of Nature

Homo homini lupus est.

"Man is a wolf to man."

Stand alone

Ventis secundis, tene cursum.

"Go even against the flow."

Is it worth it?

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

"It is sweet and honorable to die for the fatherland."

Horace

Damnation

Sic semper tyrannis

"Thus always to tyrants"

Self doubt

Ubi dubium, ibi libertas.

"Where there is doubt, there is freedom."

What terrible things old age does to us

bis pueri senes

"Old men are twice children"

careful with that hemlock

Scio me nihil scire

"I know that I know nothing"

Socrates

One step at a time

Roma die uno non ædificata est

"Rome wasn't built in a day."

Overconsumption

Quid me nutrit, me destruit.

"That which nourishes me, also destroys me."

Sleeping beauty

Qui dormit non peccat.

"He who sleeps does not sin"

Latin Rhetoric for the Desert

Qui audet vincit.

"Who dares wins"

Angel of death

Memento mori.

"Remember your mortality."

A neglected garden

Mala herba cito crescit

"Weeds grow fast."

A picture paints a thousand words

Verba docent, exempla trahunt.

"Words instruct, illustrations lead."

One too many

Absentem lædit, qui cum ebrio litigat.

"He who quarrels with a drunk hurts an absentee."

The Divine Right of Kings

A Deo rex, a rege lex

"The king is from God, the law from the king"

James I of England

The Maple Leaf

A mari usque ad mare

"From sea to sea,"

National motto of Canada

Things aren't always what they seem

Habitus non facit monachum

"A habit does not make a monk"

A good start in any book

Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres

"The whole of Gaul is divided into three parts."

Julius Caesar

Cultural exchange

Græcia capta ferum victorem cepit, et artes intulit agresti Latio

"Captive Greece captured her ferocious victor, and brought the arts into the rustic Latium"

Horace's

Moderation in all things

Medio tutissimus ibis

"In the middle shall you walk the safest"

Ovid

The eye of the beholder

Major e longinquo reverentia

"Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful."

Tacitus

Peace

Audi, vide, tace, si tu vis vivere (in pace).

"Hear, see, be silent, if you wish to live (in peace)."

Not sure I agree with this one....

Audaces fortuna iuvat

"Fortune favors the brave."

Virgil

I don't want to change

Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor

"I see the better and acknowledge it, but I follow the worse"

Ovid

talking too much

Vasa vana plurimum sonant

"Empty pots make the most noise"

Lady luck

Faber est suæ quisque fortunæ

"Each is the maker of his own fortune."

Appius Claudius Caecus

A foreign country

Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.

"I am human, so nothing that is human is foreign to me." Terence