11/02/01:
"Noli simul flare sobereque."
Don't whistle and drink at the same time.
11/01/01:
"Vivere commune est, sed non commune mereri."
Everybody lives; not everybody deserves to.
10/31/01:
"Cineri gloria sera venit."
Fame comes too late to the dead.
10/30/01:
"Stultior stulto fuisti, qui tabellis crederes!"
Idiot of idiots, to trust what is written!
10/29/01:
"Vesanum poetam qui sapiunt fugiunt."
Anyone with a brain flees a versifying poet.
10/26/01:
"Quandoquidem inter nos sanctissima divitiarum maiestas, esti funesta pecunia templo nondum habitas."
Among us, the god most revered is Wealth, but so far it has no temple of its own.
10/25/01:
"Non vereor ne illam me amare hic potuerit resciscere; quippe haud etiam quicquam inepte feci."
I don't think anyone knows I love the girl; I haven't done anything really silly yet.
10/24/01:
"Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo!."
Make me chaste and pure, but not yet!.
10/23/01:
"Magna res est vocis et silentii temperamentum."
The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
10/22/01:
"Ut sit magna, tamen certe lenta ira deorum est."
The wrath of the gods may be great, but it certainly is slow.
10/19/01:
"Nec laudas nisi mortuos poetas: tanti non est, ut placeam, perire."
If only dead poets are praised, I'd rather go unsung.
10/18/01:
"Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus."
The mountain graoned loudly in great labour, then bore a tiny mouse.
10/17/01:
"Omne ignotum pro magnifico est."
Anything we haven't seen before is marvellous.
10/16/01:
"Nec mortem effugere quisquam nec amorem potest."
No one is able to flee from death or love.
10/15/01:
"De inimico non loquaris sed cogites."
Don't wish ill fo your enemy; plan it.
10/12/01:
"Cuiusvis hominis est errare; nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare."
Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.
10/11/01:
"Brevis esse latoro obscurus fio."
When I try to be brief, I speak gobbledegook.
10/10/01:
"Mendacem memorem esse oportere."
A liar better have a good memory.
10/09/01:
"Ipsa scientia potestas est."
Knowledge itself is power.
10/08/01:
"Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior."
Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war.
10/05/01:
"Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est."
There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh.
10/04/01:
"Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem."
Remember to keep a clear head in difficult times.
10/03/01:
"Fortuna vitrea est; tum cum splendet frangitur."
Fortune is glass; just when it gleams brightest it shatters.