Anonymous:
- "γνῶθι σεαυτόν."
- "Know thyself."
Hippocrates:
- <Aphorisms of Hippocrates>:
- "Ὁ βίος βραχύς,
- ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή,
- ὁ δὲ καιρὸς ὀξύς,
- ἡ δὲ πεῖρα σφαλερή,
- ἡ δὲ κρίσις χαλεπή."
- "Ho bios brakhys,
- ê de tekhnê makrê,
- ho de kairos oxys,
- hê de peira sphalerê,
- hê de krisis khalepê."
- "Ars longa,
- vita brevis,
- occasio praeceps,
- experimentum periculosum,
- iudicium difficile."
- "Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience misleading, judgement difficult."
Leonidas:
- "Μολὼν λαβέ!"
- "Molōn labe!"
- "Come and take them!"
Socrates:
- "ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα."
- "Hèn oîda hóti oudèn oîda."
- "Scio me nihil scire or scio me nescire."
- "I know that I know nothing."
Anonymous:
- "Ave, Imperator, morituri te salutamus."
- "Hail, Emperor, we who are about to die salute you."
- "Credo quia absurdum."
- "I believe because it is absurd."
- "Memento mori."
- "Remember that you are mortal."
- "Nomen mihi Legio est, quia multi sumus."
- "My name is Legion, for we are many."
- "Tempus fugit."
- "Time flees."
Caesar:
- "Alea iacta est."
- "The die has been cast."
Horace:
- <Odes>: '"Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero."
- "Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future."
- <Odes>: "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, sed dulcius pro patria vivere, et dulcissimum pro patria bibere. Ergo, bibamus pro salute patriae."
- "It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland."
Juvenal:
- <Satires of Juvenal>: "Crimen commune tacetur."
- "The common crime keeps its silence."
- "Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
- "Who watches the watcher?"
Anonymous:
- "C'est la vie."
- "Such is life."
- "Laissez les bons temps rouler."
- "Let the good times roll."
Terry Pratchett:
- <Interesting Times>: "Your wife is a big hippo!"
Shakespeare:
- <The Tempest>: "What's past is prologue."