Quick note: For the quotations I use at the beginning of each chapter, a variety of translation options can be found on the internet. The translations listed here are mine and are by no means polished. They could rather be called working translations. Possible duplications with translations by other translators were not intended by me, but if they occur here, they are due to the Latin language.
Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. ~ My fault. My greatest guilt.
Dum differtur, vita transcurrit. Seneca ~ While one hesitates, life passes by.
Sol lucet omnibus. Gaius Petronius Arbiter ~ The sun shines for all.
Etiam tacere est respondere. ~ To be silent is also to respond.
Status quo. ~ current state
Captatio benevolentiae. ~ the seizure of benevolence (technical term of rhetoric).
Abyssus abyssum invocat. Vulgate, Psalm 42:8 ~ One mistake entails another mistake.
Cave canem! ~ Beware of the dog!
Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causa. Vergil ~ Happy one who can recognise the cause of things.
Vide, cui fidas! ~ Look, whom you trust!
Vivere est militare. Seneca ~ To live is to fight. (To live is to do military service).
Vitium fuit, nun mos est assentatio. Publius Syrus ~ Flattery has been a mistake, now it is custom.
Varium et mutabile semper femina. Vergil, Aeneid ~ Something capricious and ever changeable is woman.
Veniam petimusque damusque vicissim. Horace ~ Forgiveness we ask and give to each other.
Verbis parvam rem magnam facere. Marcus Tullius Cicero ~ By words make a small thing great.
Virtus est medium vitiorum et utrimque reductum. Horace ~ Virtue is the middle of faults and withdrawn on both sides.
Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur. Ennius (quoted from Cicero, De amicitia 64) ~ A sure friend is known in an uncertain thing.
Vinum bonum deorum donum. ~ A good wine is a gift from the gods.
Vinum bonum laetificat cor hominum. ~ A good wine gladdens the heart of man.
Verum gaudium res severa est. Seneca ~ True joy is a serious thing.
Virtutem incolumem odimus. Horace ~ We hate uninjured virtue.
Acta est fabula, plaudite! Augustus according to Suetonius (Chapter 20) ~ The story is played, applaud!
Quaere et invenies. ~ Seek and you shall find.
Amantes amentes. Terence, Andria I, 3 ~ The mad lovers.
Panem et circenses. Juvenal ~ Bread and games
Causa aequat effectum. ~ The cause equals the effect.
Coepi parte carere mei. Ovid ~ I have begun to miss a part of myself.
Commoditas omnis sua fert incommoda secum. ~ Every advantage carries its own disadvantage.
Calamitas virtutis occasio est. Seneca, De providentia 4,6 ~ Defeat is the possibility of strength.
Cantilenam eandem canere. Terence, Phormio 495 ~ Singing the same song.
Clarior ex tenebris. ~ Brighter from the darkness
Nam vitiis nemo sine nascitur. Optimus ille est, qui minimis urgetur. Horace ~ For no one is born without fault. He is the best who is afflicted by the least.
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