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“Mors certa, vita incerta,”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.

(Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.)”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace

“Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.

(Anger is a brief madness: govern your mind [temper], for unless it obeys it commands.)”
― Horace, The Odes of Horace

“Aequat omnes cinis.”
― Seneca

“Here are the essentials of a happy life,
my dear friend: money not worked for,
but inherited; some land not unproductive;
a hearth fire always going; law suits never;
the toga rarely worn; a calm mind;
a gentleman’s strong and healthy body;
circumspect candor, friends who are your equals;
relaxed dinner parties, a simple table,
nights not drunken, but free from anxieties;
a marriage bed not prudish, and yet modest;
plenty of sleep to make the dark hours short. Wish
to be what you are, and prefer nothing more.
Don’t fear your last day, or hope for it either.

Translated from original text:
Vitam quae faciant beatiorem,
Iucundissime Martialis, haec sunt:
Res non parta labore, sed relicta;
Non ingratus ager, focus perennis;
Lis numquam, toga rara, mens quieta;
Vires ingenuae, salubre corpus;
Prudens simplicitas, pares amici;
Convictus facilis, sine arte mensa;
Nox non ebria, sed soluta curis;
Non tristis torus, et tamen pudicus;
Somnus, qui faciat breves tenebras:
Quod sis, esse velis nihilque malis;
Summum nec metuas diem nec optes.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis

“You can say any sort of nonsense in Latin, and our feeble university men will be stunned, or at least profoundly confused. That’s how the popes have gotten away with peddling bad religion for so long, they simply say it in Latin.”
― Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver

“He studied Latin like the violin, because he liked it.”
― Robert Frost

“There is no better recreation for the mind than the study of the ancient classics. Take any one of them into your hand, be it only for half an hour, and you will feel yourself refreshed, relieved, purified, ennobled, strengthened; just as if you had quenched your thirst at some pure spring. Is this the effect of the old language and its perfect expression, or is it the greatness of the minds whose works remain unharmed and unweakened by the lapse of a thousand years? Perhaps both together. But this I know. If the threatened calamity should ever come, and the ancient languages cease to be taught, a new literature shall arise, of such barbarous, shallow and worthless stuff as never was seen before.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

“Alis volat propriis”
― motto state of Oregon

“Sinister is Latin for 'left', making it the sort of enjoyable schoolboy pun that is such an advert for mixed-gender education.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho

“Words pass through walls and slip past lock and key,
and numbing cold seeps to our very bones.”
― Lucretius

“credo ut intelligam. (i believe so i can understand).”
― Augustine of Hippo

“A furore infra, libera nas."
(Spare us from the fury within)

-Valerius”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Bad Moon Rising

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

For ever and ever.

In the red light, the brushed steel glowed softly, like embers. The polish letters blazed.

Without a hiss, For ever and ever slid aside, as though inviting me to eternity.”
― Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“Sutor, Ne Ultra Crepidam”
― Pliny the Elder

“I don't know what I'm doing in Santa Teresa," Amalfitano said to himself after he'd been living in the city for a week.
"Don't you? Don't you really?" he asked himself.
"Really I don't," he said to himself. And that was as eloquent as he could be.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“I'd studied Latin for five years now, which meant that I could, on rare occasions, actually translate something.”
― Kate Hattemer

“A TUZZO LANTO
Poici di Pare

TANto SAca TULna TI, na PUta TUchi PUti TI la.
RUNto CAta CHANto CHANta MANto CHI la TI da.
YALta CAra SULda MI la CHAta Picha Pino Tito BRALda pe te CHIna nana CHUNda lala CHINda lala CHUNda!
RONto piti CA le, a TANto CHINto quinta LALda ola TiNta dalla LALta, YENta PUcha lalla TALta!”
― Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

“You Can't Replace A Star with A Lightbulb”
― Latif Mercado

“I have no idea what to say to him. “The Latin Club is totally evil,â€� I blurt.

“The Latin Club?�

I can understand why he’s confused.”
― Holly Black, The Poison Eaters and Other Stories

“For whatever changes and leaves its natural bounds
is instant death of that which was before.”
― Lucretius, On The Nature of Things

“Sit tibi terra levis”
― Anonymous

“It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that in one word which either the barbarity or the narrowness of modern tongues cannot supply in more. ...But since every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another, it would be unreasonable to limit a translator to the narrow compass of his author's words; it is enough if he choose out some expression which does not vitiate the sense.”
― John Dryden

“That's so," said Eliza. "Vacation ends next month. I start Latin this year. They say it's awful. You decline nouns. All _I_ can say is, who wouldn't?”
― Edward Eager

“I should think a dead language would be rather boring, socially
speaking.”
― Sol Luckman, Snooze: A Story of Awakening

“Failures Are The Cornerstones Of Success!”
― Latif Mercado

“My Name Is Latif Mercado, And I Am... A Workaholic!”
― Latif Mercado

“My Friends I Will Always Remember, And My Enemies I Will Never Forget!”
― Latif Mercado

“Not Even The Greatest Sculptor Can Mold A Masterpiece Out Of Shit!”
― Latif Mercado

“A Memory Is Better Than A Phony!”
― Latif Mercado