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    This document contains 10 Latin mottos and epigrams. Some provide short phrases of advice, such as "Anger is a brief madness; govern your spirit" and "Rashness is never joined with wisdom." Others describe places or institutions, for example "Through difficulties to the stars" is the motto of the Royal Air Force and "For a greater glory of God" is the motto of the Jesuit order. The mottos range from short phrases to longer sentences describing power and authority.

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    Latin mottos and epigrams

    1) labor omnia vīcit. (Virgil)

    2) īra furor brevis est; animum rege. (Horace.—furor, -rōris, madness.—


    brevis, -e, brief.—animus, -ī, spirit, mind)

    3) ad maiōrem deī glōriam (motto of the Jesuit order)

    4) per ardua ad astra (motto of RAF.—arduus, -a, -um, high, steep,


    difficult.—astrum, -ī, star)

    5) Lūsitānia tesserā omnī armātūrā fortior (motto of a Portuguese


    cavalry regiment.—Lūsitānia, -ae, Roman name for Portugal.—tessera,
    -ae, banner.—armātūra, -ae, armor, soldiers)

    6) sub lēge libertās (motto of Portugal.—lēx, lēgis, law.—lībertās, -tātis)

    7) dum spīrō spērō (motto of St Andrews.—spīrāre, to breathe.—spērāre,


    cf. spēs)

    8) Rōma, caput mundi, regit orbis frena rotundī (inscribed on the crown
    of the emperor Diocletian.—caput, -pitis, head.—mundus, -ī, world.—
    orbis, -is, globe.—frēna, n. pl. reins.—rotundus, -a, -um)

    9) numquam enim temeritās cum sapientiā commiscētur. (Cicero.—


    temeritās, -tātis, rashness.—commiscēre, join)

    10) malum est cōnsilium quod mūtārī nōn potest. (Publilius Syrus.—
    cōnsilium, ī, plan, judgment.—mūtāre, change)

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