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„Praca przezwycięża wszystko.”

„Zło ukrywane rośnie.”

„Strach dodaje nogom skrzydeł.”

„Bo zwyciężyć mogą ci, którzy wierzą, że mogą.”

„Głuchym śpiewamy.”

„Jeśli nie nakłonię niebios, poruszę piekło.”

„Ci, którzy kochają, sami sobie kształtują sny.”

„Jeden za wielu.”

„Myśl porusza ogrom świata.”

„Lecz ucieka tymczasem, ucieka niepowrotnie czas.”

„Dla zwyciężonych jedyną nadzieją jest zbyć się nadziei.”

„Szczęśliwy zaiste ten, który zdołał przyczyny wszechrzeczy poznać.”

„Każdego pociągają inne przyjemności.”

„Miłość dla wszystkich jednaka.”

„Broń i męża opiewam.”

„Ty złemu nie ustępuj, lecz przeciw idź śmiało!”

“Rage supplies arms.”

“Ye realms, yet unrevealed to human sight,
Ye gods who rule the regions of the night,
Ye gliding ghosts, permit me to relate
The mystic wonders of your silent state!”
Di, quibus imperium est animarum, umbraeque silentes, Et Chaos, et Phlegethon, loca nocte tacentia late, Sit mihi fas audita loqui: sit numine vestro Pandere res alta terra et caligine mersas.

“An ornament and a safeguard.”
Decus et tutamen.

“The only hope for the doomed is no hope at all.”
Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem.

“I feel once more the scars of the old flame.”
Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae.

“Every misfortune is to be subdued by patience.”
Superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est.

“Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.”
Trahit sua quemque voluptas.

“And with a groan for that indignity
His spirit fled into the gloom below.”
Vitaque cum gemitu fugit indignata sub umbras.

“There is no salvation in war.”

“To what extremes won't you compel our hearts,
you accursed lust for gold?”
Quid non mortalia pectora cogis, Auri sacra fames?

“Now I know what Love is.”
Nunc scio quid sit Amor.

“If I cannot sway the heavens, I'll wake the powers of hell!”
Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo<!--mouebo?-->.

“Away, away, unhallowed ones!”
Procul, O procul este, profani!

“How changed from what he once was!”
Quantum mutatus ab illo.

“Presence diminishes fame.”
Minuit praesentia famam.

“Force finds a way.”

“Death's own brother Sleep.”
Consanguineus Leti Sopor.

“I will teach you your destiny.”

“Go no further down the road of hatred.”
Ulterius ne tende odiis.

“There all stood begging to be first across
And reached out longing hands to the far shore.”
Stabant orantes primi transmittere cursum Tendebantque manus ripae ulterioris amore.

“O three and four times blessed!”
O terque quaterque beati!

“Love is lord of all, and is in all the same.”
Amor omnibus idem.

“There are twin Gates of Sleep.
One, they say, is called the Gate of Horn
and it offers easy passage to all true shades.
The other glistens with ivory, radiant, flawless,
but through it the dead send false dreams up toward the sky.”
Sunt geminae Somni portae, quarum altera fertur Cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris, Altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto, Sed falsa ad caelum mittunt insomnia Manes.

“Your descendants shall gather your fruits.”
Carpent tua poma nepotes.

“To compare great things with small.”
Parvis componere magna.

“Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.”
Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis.

“Nay, had I a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, and voice of iron, I could not sum up all the forms of crime, or rehearse all the tale of torments.”
Non, mihi si linguae centum sunt oraque centum Ferrea vox, omnis scelerum comprendere formas, Omnia poenarum percurrere nomina possim.

“Fickle and changeable always is woman.”
Varium et mutabile semper Femina.

“From one learn all.”
Ab uno disce omnes.