Latin Phrases and Quotes
Starting with phrase number 286

  1. Alias - Also known as
  2. Alibi - In another place (Legal term - In legal parlance is used to designate the excuse, namely that a person has not been at the crime scene)
  3. Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent - The things of others are more pleasant for us, and ours more pleasant to them (The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence)
  4. Alieni iuris - Alian right (Legal Term - A person (e.g. a minor) who is legally dependent on another. Compare with sui iuris)
  5. Aliis coluit non sibi - He cultivated for others and not for him (Cicero Orationes)
  6. Aliis si licet, tibi non licet - For others this is permitted, but not for you
  7. Aliis Vivere - Live for others (Academic Term - Motto of the Faculty of Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico)
  8. Aliorum iudicio permulta nobis et facienda et non facienda et mutanda et corrigenda sunt - In the opinion of others, lots of things should be done, omitted, changed and corrected by us (Cicero - de Officiis )
  9. Alios docendo ipsi discimus - We learn teaching other
  10. Alios ego vidi ventos; alias prospexi animo procellas - I've seen other winds; and have faced other storms (Philosophical Term - Cicero Familiares, 12, 25, 5, 12)
  11. Aliquando bonus dormitat Homerus - Sometimes good Homer sleeps (No one is perfect. Even the great poet Homer, the author of the Iliad, can make a mistake.)
  12. Aliquando et insanire iucundum est - Sometimes it is enjoyable to be insane (Seneca De tranquillitate animi XVII 10)
  13. Aliquid quo nihil maius cognitari posit - Somthing which nothing greater can be conceived (Philosophical term - Saint Anselm's argument of the existance of God)
  14. Aliquis latet error - Some trickery lies hidden (Virgil - Aeneid II, 48)
  15. Alis volat propriis - She Flies With Her Own Wings (motto of Oregon)
  16. Aliud est punire, aliud vindicare - One thing is to punish, to vindicate is another (Legal Term Leonard Lessius 1554-1623)
  17. Allere Flammam Veritatis - Let flame of truth shine (Motto of University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico)
  18. Alma mater - Nourishing mother (Academic term - refers to the institution where one got his/her degree)
  19. Alma parens - Nurturing parent (Virgil - Aeneid X)
  20. Alter ego - The other I (Term used in Physiology - Refers to other personalities of people who have schizophrenia)
  21. Alter idem - The second self (Another thing exactly the same)
  22. Alter parens - Other Parent (Legal term - Person whom something is owe )
  23. Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest - A man cannot belong to another, if he can belong to himself (Paracelsus [Theophrastus Phillippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim ] Swiss Doctor (1493-1541))
  24. Altiora te ne quaesieris - Do not seek what is beyond your reach (St. Thomas Aquinas)
  25. Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labi - The deepest rivers flow with minimum sound (Still waters run deep - The most profound words are not necessarily the loudest ones)

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