You are who you choose to be

meetdenis

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What's the proper Latin for
''You are who you choose to be"
"Action will overcome fear"

Google tells me
"Vos qui volueris"
"Action vincet timor"
 

LVXORD

Civis Illustris

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Google tends to be wrong. A better translation should be "qui eligas es" and "timorem actio superabit"

Others may have better suggestions.
 

meetdenis

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Yes precisely, did not want to rely on a piece of computer program for this.:naughty:
Thanks for you help, LVXORD.

Any other inputs, anyone?
 

Pacifica

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"qui eligas es"
This looks a bit too elliptical, and there's no reason for having the subjunctive in one verb and not in the other. As this is a generalizing "you", you could have the subjunctive in both verbs, though the indicative is also possible; but I see nothing that justifies mixing the two. Perhaps you thought it was an indirect question, but it isn't.

I'd say perhaps qui esse eligas is sis/qui esse eligis is es, or perhaps qui esse velis is sis/qui esse vis is es.

Eligas/eligis is more literal for "choose" whereas velis/vis is more "want/wish", but I'm not sure the former verb is often used in cases like this in Latin. Wait for a couple more comments.
 

Lucius Vorenus

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Pacis puella dixit:
I'd say perhaps qui esse eligas is sis/qui esse eligis is es, or perhaps qui esse velis is sis/qui esse vis is es.

Eligas/eligis is more literal for "choose" whereas velis/vis is more "want/wish", but I'm not sure the former verb is often used in cases like this in Latin.

I wonder about eligo as well. My small Collins dictionary gives its primary meanings as "pick; pluck out; choose". I think volo would be better, or perhaps opto, -are ("choose; wish for").
 
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