Cool ass Latin shit
Fell into a standard John Lester Wikipedia hole, this time on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases
Some good ones:
ubi amor, ibi dolor | where [there is] love, there [is] pain |
ubi dubium, ibi libertas | where [there is] doubt, there [is] freedom |
ubi sunt? | where are they? |
ultima forsan | perhaps the last | i.e. "perhaps your last hour." A sundial inscription. |
ululas Athenas | (to send) owls to Athens |
unus papa Romae, unus portus Anconae, una turris Cremonae, una ceres Raconae | One pope in Rome, one port in Ancona, one tower in Cremona, one beer in Rakovník | Motto of the Czech Brewery in Rakovník. |
habent sua fata libelli | Books have their destiny [according to the capabilities of the reader] | Terentianus Maurus, De litteris, de syllabis, de metris, 1:1286. |
hic abundant leones | here lions abound |
homo sine pecunia imago mortis[6] | a man without money is the image of death |
bello et jure senesco | I grow old through war and law | Motto of the House of d'Udekem d'Acoz |
bellum se ipsum alet | war feeds itself |
brutum fulmen | harmless (or inert) thunderbolt | Used to indicate either an empty threat, or a judgement at law which has no practical effect |
laboris gloria Ludi | Games are the glory of work, | Motto of the Camborne School of Mines, Cornwall, UK |
lacrimae rerum | The poignancy of things. | Virgil, Aeneid 1:462 |
lapsus calami | inadvertent typographical error, slip of the pen |
lectori salutem (L. S.) | greetings to the reader | Often abbreviated to L.S., used as opening words for a letter |
lucida sidera | The shining stars |