Latin Quoter

Timeless words.
Modern life.

Twenty centuries of Latin wisdom, from Roman poets and medieval monks to Renaissance humanists, great scientists and the mottos we still live by. Translated, explained and made for your walls, your wardrobe and your feed.

Why Latin, why now

Old school words.
New school attitude.

Roman poets, medieval monks, Renaissance humanists and early scientists all wrote their sharpest lines in Latin. Latin Quoter picks the ones that still work today and gives each one a clear translation, a bit of backstory and a fresh design.

No dusty textbooks. Just short, sharp wisdom you can wear, hang or send to a friend who needs it.

5 eras From Antiquity to today
A–ZQuote collections by first letter
100%Real Latin, checked spelling
Twenty centuries of Latin

Not just Rome.

Latin outlived the empire by a thousand years. It was the language of monasteries, universities, poets, scientists and mottos, and every era left its own lines behind.

Antiquity

Rome

Carpe diem
Seize the day.
Horace
Middle Ages

Monasteries

Ora et labora
Pray and work.
Benedictine motto
Renaissance

Humanists

Ad fontes
Back to the sources.
Humanist motto
Age of Reason

Scholars

Cogito, ergo sum
I think, therefore I am.
René Descartes
Today

Mottos

E pluribus unum
Out of many, one.
Motto on the Great Seal of the United States
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Six lines to live by

See all quotes A–Z
Antiquity
Audentes fortuna iuvat
Fortune favors the bold.
Virgil
Proverb
Dum spiro, spero
While I breathe, I hope.
Latin proverb
Late Antiquity
Fiat lux
Let there be light.
Vulgate Bible, Genesis 1:3
Enlightenment
Sapere aude
Dare to be wise.
Horace, adopted by Kant
Renaissance era
Tempora mutantur
Times change, and we change with them.
16th-century proverb
Motto
Per aspera ad astra
Through hardship to the stars.
Latin motto
The collections

Find your quote, A to Z

Every collection gathers the Latin quotes that start with one letter, each with its meaning. Pick a letter to open the collection on Pinterest.

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One Latin line.
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