HOW TO: Latin phrases to use as incantations Pt. 2

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 - ad astra per aspera - to the stars through difficulties

 - alis volat propriis - he flies by his own wings

 - amantium irae amoris integration est - the quarrels of lovers are the renewals of love

 - ars longa, vita brevis - art is long, life is short

 - aut insanity homo, aut versus facit - the fellow is either mad or he is composing verses

 - dum spiro spero - while I breathe, I hope

 - ense pelit placidam sub libertarte quietam - with the sword, she seeks peace under liberty

 - exigo a me non ut optimus par sim sed ut malis mellor - I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better than the bad

 - experiential docet - experience teaches

 - helluo liborum - a glutton for books (bookworm)

 - in libras libertas - in books, freedom

 - littera scripta manet - the written letter lasts

 - mens rengum bona possidet - an honest heart is a kingdom in itself

 - mirabile dictu - wonderful to say

 - nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - there is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part

 - omnia iam fient quae posse negabam - everything which I used to say could not happen, will happen now

 - poeta nascitur, non fit - the poet is born, not made

 - quid edit benificium taceat; narrat qui accepit - let him who has done a good deed be silent; let him who received it tell it

 - saepe ne utile qidum est scire quid futurum sit - often, it is not advantageous to know what will be

 - sedit qui timuit ne non succederet - he who feared he would not succeed sat still

 - si vis pacem, para bellium - if you want peace, prepare for war

 - struit insidias lacrimis cum feminia plorat - when a woman weeps, she is setting traps with her tears

 - sub rosa - under the rose

 - trahimir omnes laudis studio - we are led on by our eagerness for praise

 - urbem latericium invenit, marmoream reliquit - he found the city, a city of bricks, he left it to make a city of marble.

 - ut incepit fidelis sic permanet - as loyal as she began, so she remained. 

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