in sapientia ambulate ad eos qui foris sunt tempus redimentes. sermo vester semper in gratia sale sit conditus ut sciatis quomodo oporteat vos unicuique respondere. (Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity. Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person.)
Historia magistra vitae et testis temporum (History is the teacher and witness of times)
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
Greeks talk a whole pile of nonsense. Fuck’em.
Qui desiderat pacem praeparet bellum (Let him who desires peace prepare for war)
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
Fortis cadere, cedere non potest. (A brave man may fall, but he cannot yield.)
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. (It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one’s country.)
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
Every counterfeit god a heart can choose- whether love, money, success, or power- has a powerful biblical narrative that explains how that particular kind of idolatry works itself out in our lives.
Acerbity [əˈsɜːbɪtɪ] 