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Omnes vulnerant, ultima necat. (All [hours] wound; the last kills.) [11] [Pulvis et] umbra sumus. (We are [dust and] shadow.) [14] Serius est quam cogitas. (It is later than you think.) [11] Sic labitur ætas. (Thus passes a lifetime.) [11] Sic vita fluit, dum stare videtur. (Life flows away as it seems to stay the same.) [11] Ultima latet ut ...
Memento mori (Latin for "remember (that you have) to die") [ 2] is an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death. [ 2] The concept has its roots in the philosophers of classical antiquity and Christianity, and appeared in funerary art and architecture from the medieval period onwards.
Omnes homines sunt asini vel homines et asini sunt asini: All men are donkeys or men and donkeys are donkeys: a sophisma proposed and solved by Albert of Saxony (philosopher) omnes vulnerant, postuma necat, or, omnes feriunt, ultima necat: all [the hours] wound, last one kills: usual in clocks, reminding the reader of death omnia cum deo: all ...
Labor omnia vincit or Labor omnia vincit improbus is a Latin phrase meaning "Work conquers all". The phrase is adapted from Virgil 's Georgics, Book I, lines 145–6: ...Labor omnia vicit / improbus ("Steady work overcame all things"). The poem was written in support of Augustus Caesar 's "Back to the land" policy, aimed at encouraging more ...
Louis XIV of France had Ultima Ratio Regum ("last argument of kings") cast on the cannons of his armies. Motto of the American 1st Battalion 11th Marines; the French Fourth Artillery Regiment; Swedish Artilleriregementet. Also, the Third Battery of the French Third Marine Artillery Regiment has the motto Ultima Ratio Tribuni.
The phrase is the official motto of the Church of South India. The Latin version, Ut Omnes Unum Sint, is the motto of the World Student Christian Federation, the University of Mainz, the United Church of Canada and the YMCA. The United Church of Christ has the same motto except for a change in the place of one word: "That they may all be one."
Ultima venturi quod erant oracula regis, Qui toti veniens mundo cum pace, placebit, Ut voluit, nostra vestitus carne decenter, In cunctis humilis, castam pro matre puellam Deliget, haec alias forma praecesserit omnes. Now my most recent words shall remain certain and true, because they were the last oracles of the king to come,
De Pippini regis Victoria Avarica. Rythmus (or Carmen) de Pippini regis Victoria Avarica [1] ("Poem [song] of king Pippin's Avar victory"), also known by its incipit as Omnes gentes qui fecisti ("All peoples whom you created"), is a medieval Latin encomium celebrating the victory of King Pepin of Italy over the Avars in the summer of 796.