“What an artist dies in me!”
Qualis artifex pereo.
Nero (37–68) Emperor of Ancient Rome, 5th and last of the Julio-Claudian dynasty
Variant translations:
What an artisan I am in dying!
So great an artist, I die!
Like an artist, I die.
Truly... an artist is about to perish.
Quoted in ""Nero"" - Page 51 by Edward Champlin - History - 2003
“I will either find a way, or make one.”
Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.
Hannibal (-247–-183 BC) military commander of Carthage during the Second Punic War
Latin proverb, most commonly attributed to Hannibal in response to his generals who had declared it impossible to cross the Alps with elephants; English translation as quoted in Salesmanship and Business Efficiency (1922) by James Samuel Knox, p. 27.
“No one is able to rule unless he is also able to be ruled.”
nemo autem regere potest nisi qui et regi.
Seneca the Younger Moral Essays
De Ira (On Anger): Book 2, cap. 15, line 4
Compare with the following : No man ruleth safely but that he is willingly ruled.
From The Imitation of Christ, Liber I, cap. 20 (Of the Love of Solitude and Silence), line 2 : by Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471).
Moral Essays
“The friendship that can cease has never been real.”
Amicitia quae desinere potest vera numquam fuit.
Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church
Letter 3
Letters
“Fortune favours the brave.”
Fortis fortuna adiuvat.
Variant translation: Fortune assists the brave.
Act I, scene 4, line 25 (203).
Cf. Virgil, Aeneid, Book X, line 284: "Audentes fortuna iuvat."
Phormio
“Worse than war is the very fear of war.”
peior est bello timor ipse belli.
Thyestes, line 572 (Chorus).
Tragedies
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
Patientia comes est sapientiae
Aurelius Augustinus (354–430) early Christian theologian and philosopher
De Patientia http://www.augustinus.it/latino/pazienza/index.htm chapter 5
“For no man is free who is a slave to his body.”
Nemo liber est qui corpori servit.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCII: On the Happy Life
“We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.”
Non enim omnis error stultitia est dicenda.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Book II, Chapter LII, section 90
De Divinatione – On Divination (44 BC)
André Breton (1896–1966) French writer
Quote of Breton, written in the prologue of The Diary of a Genius, Salvador Dali, London Pan Books, 1976, 1980 p. 35
after 1930
Brennus Gaulish chieftain
Vae Victis!
See Livy v. 33-49; Plutarch, Camillus, 17, 22, 28; Polybius i. 6, ii. 18; Dion. Halic. xiii. 7
Variant translation: Down with the defeated!
His statement to the conquered Romans following the capture of Rome (circa 390 BC), as quoted in Livy Ab urbe condita, bk. 5, ch. 48, section 9 (reference taken from 1997's Chambers Dictionary of Quotations, p. 187).
“Entrust your life to a person who can feel her heartbeat when you kiss her.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Affida la tua vita ad una persona che possa sentire il battito del suo cuore quando la baci.
Source: prevale.net
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
[199710221937.MAA25131@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“If you're a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones, you take the tough ones too.”
Dick Winters (1918–2011) American military personnel
Source: Band of Brothers, episode Crossroads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yggdVyan4XI
“When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.”
Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) American businessman and philanthropist
“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
