Memorable latin and greek quotes

[Adrian]

Tunc ait illi Jesus: Converte gladium tuum in locum suum: omnes enim, qui acceperint gladium, gladio peribunt.
Then, Jesus told him: Turn back thy sword in it's place: for all who would receive sword, by the sword they shall perish.
-Matthew, 26:52

 

[Issacus Divus]

They who live by the sword, die by the sword. A classic favorite of mine.

 

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

And yet Jesus said he hadn't come to bring peace, but a sword. Perhaps he was in a foul fig-tree-cursing mood that day.

 

[Adrian]

Nolite judicare, ut non judicemini
lit. Be unwilling to judge, so that not "ye are judged"
- Matthew, 7

 

[Glabrigausapes]

Decet magnanimitas quemlibet mortalem, etiam illum infra quem nihil est.
- Seneca's De clementia

 

[Adrian]

Σπεῦδε βραδέως, id est Festina lente.
- Erasmus, Adagia

 

[Adrian]

Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur
-Quintus Ennius

 

[Bitmap]

I don't think that's an Ennius quote. At least it wouldn't make sense because it doesn't fit any metre. It appears in Cicero's de amicitia, but I wonder if it wasn't just some general kind of aphorism.

 

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Well, Augustus/Horace isn't Erasmus.

 

[Adrian]

I don't think that's an Ennius quote. At least it wouldn't make sense because it doesn't fit any metre. It appears in Cicero's de amicitia, but I wonder if it wasn't just some general kind of aphorism.

https://latin.packhum.org/loc/43/5/0/17010-17023#0 (line 351)

 

[Bitmap]

Oh, it's iambic. Didn't know that Ennius wrote iambs as well

 

[Adrian]

Fortuna vitrea est: tum cum splendet frangitur.
- Publius Syrus, Sententiae

 

[Adrian]

[...]
dimidium facti, qui coepit, habet: sapere aude,
incipe [...]
- Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Epistulae 1.2.1

 

[Adrian]

Vita enim mortuorum in memoria est posita vivorum
-Cicero

 

[Glabrigausapes]

Tunc respondebunt et ipsi dicentes Domine quando te uidimus esurientem aut sitientem aut hospitem aut nudum aut infirmum uel in carcere et non ministrauimus tibi?
Tunc respondebit illis dicens Amen dico uobis quamdiu non fecistis uni de minoribus his nec mihi fecistis.
-Matthew 25:44-45

Whereas some of the items put into Jesus's austere, wine-bibbing mouth come across as 'all pomp & circumstance', this is one I really love. Here he is simply Joe Everyman, the soul of us, abashed & laid low, a remonstrance, a reproach.

 

[Adrian]

Benedictus Dominus Deus meus, qui docet manus meas ad proelium, et digitos meos ad bellum
-Psalm 143

 

[Adrian]

[...] fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt
- Gaius Iulius Caesar, De Bello Gallico

 

[Matthaeus]

Vita enim mortuorum in memoria est posita vivorum
-Cicero

Memoria non est opus cum vemortuos quotidie ante oculos video!

 

[Adrian]

Qui volare vult neque potest ad terram cadit!
- Iulius

 

[Adrian]

cum fortuna manet, vultum servatis, amici;
cum cedidit, turpi vertitis ora fuga.
- Petronius, Satyrica