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Latin Phrases and Quotes
Starting with phrase number 3588
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- Si vis, amaris ama - If you wish to be loved, love (This is often attributed to the Roman philosopher Seneca, found in the sixth of his letters to Lucilius. - Thank you: Han)
- Si vis pacem para bellum - If you want peace prepare for war (The display of military might discourages war - Thank you: Joe Pappalardo - Phrase originally used by the German Empire. It was shortened to "Parabellum" and referred to 9mm ammunition used during WWI. Modern 9mm bullets still retain the "Parabellum" designation - Thank you: E.S.)
- Si vis scire doce - If you want to learn, teach (When you try to make someone else understand something, you test how much you really know)
- Si vis vacare animo, aut pauper sis oportet, aut pauperi similis - If you want to grow your spirit, it is convenient to be poor, or at least look like you are (Seneca)
- Sibi non cavere et aliis consilium dare stultum esse - To give advise to others, and not take care of yourself, is typical of fools (Phaedrus 1,9,1)
- Sic - Yes (Grammatical Term - Yes, it is written that way, when copying a text that has an error)
- Sic ego nec sine te nec tecum vivere possum - So neither with you nor without I can live (Women, can't live with them, can't live without them - Ovid - Amores)
- Sic faciunt omnes - Everybody does this
- Sic itur ad astra - This is the way to the stars (Motto of the Colombian Air Force)
- Sic Luceant Opera Tua - Your work continues to shine (Motto of the city of Gandia in Valencia, Spain)
- Sic Luceat Lux Vestra - Let your light shine (Vulgate - Matthew 5: 15 - Said by Jesus Christ)
- Sic obvia frangit - This overcomes obstacles (Motto of the Spanish Light Armoured Cavalry Regiment #11)
- Sic Parvis Magna - From small to greatness (Motto given by Queen Elizabeth to Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596) in 1581 for being the first English person to circumnavigate the world)
- Sic semper Tyrannus - Thus always to tyrants (Motto of Virginia State )
- Sic sum, si placeo utere - That is the way I am, if you like it, use me (Terence - Phormio)
- Sic Transit Gloria Mundi - Thus passes the glory of the world (a reminder phrase of the transitory nature of life. Used in papal coronation ceremonies between 1409-1963 )
- Sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas - Use what's yours without harming others (Legal and diplomatic term - Used in international law to specify that countries are free to use their own natural resources, as long as they do not compromise the resources of neighboring countries)
- Sic volo, sic iubeo - This way I want it, so this way I order it (Juvenal)
- Sic vos, non vobis - For you, not by you (Refers to trying to take credit for someone else's work)
- Sicut bonum creatum est quaedam similitudo et participatio boni increati, ita adeptio boni creati est quaedam similitudinaria beatitudo - As well created has a certain similarity to the well uncreated, so the achievement of the well created is a certain happiness of this likeness (St. Thomas Aquinas)
- Sicut cervus ad fontes - As deer to the water fountain
- Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum, ita desiderat anima mea ad te Deus - As the deer long for the springs of water, so my soul longs for you, oh God (Vulgate - Psalm 42:2)
- Sicut edas ut semper exurias - Eat as if you are always hungry (Sign in a convent)
- Sicut enim maius est illuminare quam lucere solum, ita maius est contemplata aliis tradere quam solum contemplari - The same way that it is better to illuminate something, than just reflect it, so it is better convey to others what you have seen, than just contemplate it (St. Thomas Aquinas)
- Sicut ergo Iudith et Tobi et Machabaeorum libros legit quidem Ecclesia, sed inter canonicas scripturas non recipit: sic et haec duo volumina (Eclo y Sab) legat ad aedificationem plebis, non ad auctoritatem ecclesiaticorum dogmatum confirmandam - And just as the Church certainly reads the books of Judith, Tobias and Maccabees, but does not get in the canonical Scriptures, just these two (Ecclesiastic and Wisdom), the Church reads for the edification of the faithful, but not to confirm the authority of ecclesiastical dogmas (St. Jerome)
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