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That was a good mark in Latin, and I am pleased with your steady improvement in it.

The difficulty of learning the dead languages does not arise from any superior abstruseness in the l...

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Facilis descensus Averno:Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;Sed revocare gradium superasque ev...

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As Brother Francis readily admitted, his mastery of pre-Deluge English was far from masterful yet. T...

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E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

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Carl SaganThe Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

On the third, directly before me, were embedded more polished letters: PER OMNIA SAECULA SAECULORUM....

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The most satisfying of languages, Latin.

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Donna TarttThe Secret History

It was my first-year Latin teacher in high school who made me who made me discover I'd fallen in lov...

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A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the...

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George OrwellPolitics and the English Language

I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I ...

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If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the w...

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Pactum serva" - "Keep the faith

Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.(Anger is a brief madness: govern your min...

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Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.(Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as poss...

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HoraceThe Odes of Horace

Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if yo...

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Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the o...

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Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.

Mathemata mathematicis scribuntur.

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Nicolaus CopernicusDe Revolutionibus Libri Sex (Nicolaus Copernicus: Gesamtausgabe)

Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living.

I don't know what I'm doing in Santa Teresa," Amalfitano said to himself after he'd been living in t...

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Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.