Latin quotes starting with O
106 Latin quotes starting with O, from O altitudo to Otium cum dignitate. Each with translation, meaning and the story behind it.
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O altitudo
O crux ave, spes unica
O Deus, ego amo te
O God, I love you.
O dulce nomen libertatis
O sweet name of freedom!
O et praesidium et dulce decus meum
O fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint, agricolas
O homines ad servitutem paratos
O matre pulchra filia pulchrior
O daughter more beautiful than your beautiful mother!
O sancta simplicitas
O tempora, o mores!
Oh, the times! Oh, the customs!
O ubi campi
Obesse nulli, prodesse multis
Oblata arripe
Obscuris vera involvens
Wrapping the truth in obscurity.
Obscurum per obscurius
The obscure by means of the more obscure.
Obtorto collo
With a twisted neck.
Occidit miseros crambe repetita magistros
Cabbage served up again and again kills the wretched teachers.
Oculi plus vident quam oculus
Oculis de homine non credo; habeo melius et certius lumen quo a falsis vera diiudicem: animi bonum animus inveniat
Oculos habent et non videbunt
Oculus animi index
The eye is the indicator of the mind.
Oderint dum metuant
Let them hate, as long as they fear.
Odi et amo
I hate and I love.
Odi profanum vulgus et arceo
I hate the uninitiated crowd and keep them away.
Odit verus amor nec patitur moras
Odium theologicum
Theological hatred.
Oleum camino
Oil on the furnace.
Oleum et operam perdidi
I have wasted both oil and effort.
Omne ignotum pro magnifico
Everything unknown is taken for something grand.
Omne initium difficile est
Every beginning is difficult.
Omne malum vino cantuque levato
Lighten every trouble with wine and song.
Omne quod movetur ab alio movetur
Whatever moves is moved by something else.
Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci
Omne vivum ex ovo
Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum; grata superveniet quae non sperabitur hora
Omnes enim qui acceperint gladium, gladio peribunt
Omnes homines sibi sanitatem cupiunt, saepe autem omnia quae valetudini contraria sunt faciunt
Omnes horas complectere … dum differtur vita transcurrit
Seize every hour ... while we put life off, it runs past.
Omnes horas complectere; sic fiet ut minus ex crastino pendeas, si hodierno manum inieceris
Omnes una manet nox
One night awaits us all.
Omnes vulnerant, ultima necat
Omnia aequo animo ferre sapientis est
It is the mark of a wise person to bear everything calmly.
Omnia aliena sunt, tempus tantum nostrum est
All things are another's; only time is ours.
Omnia autem quae secundum naturam fiunt sunt habenda in bonis
Omnia cum Deo
All things with God.
Omnia cum honore
Omnia dicta fortiora si dicta Latina
Everything said is stronger if said in Latin.
Omnia fert tempus, pariter rapit omnia tempus
Time brings all things, and time takes all things away.
Omnia homini, dum vivit, speranda sunt
While a person lives, everything can be hoped for.
Omnia in mensura et numero et pondere disposuisti
You have ordered all things in measure and number and weight.
Omnia mea mecum porto
All that is mine I carry with me.
Omnia mirari etiam tritissima
Marvel at everything, even the most commonplace.
Omnia mors aequat
Omnia munda mundis
To the pure, all things are pure.
Omnia mutantur, nihil interit
Everything changes, nothing perishes.
Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis
All things change, and we change with them.
Omnia omnibus
All things to all people.
Omnia praesumuntur legitime facta donec probetur in contrarium
All things are presumed to have been done lawfully until the contrary is proven.
Omnia pro patria
Omnia Romae cum pretio
Everything in Rome comes with a price.
Omnia sponte fluant, absit violentia rebus
Let everything flow of its own accord; let there be no force in things.
Omnia sunt communia
All things are held in common.
Omnia tempus habent
Everything has its time.
Omnia tempus revelat
Time reveals everything.
Omnia vincit amor
Love conquers all.
Omnibus enim mobilibus mobilior est sapientia
Omnibus idem
The same to all.
Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus maximis fastidium finitimum est
In all things, disgust lies close to the greatest pleasures.
Omnibus locis fit caedes
There is slaughter everywhere.
Omnis amans amens
Omnis ars naturae imitatio est
All art is an imitation of nature.
Omnis civitas contra se divisa non stabit
Omnis enim ex infirmitate feritas est
For all savagery comes from weakness.
Omnis homo mendax
Omnis pontifex ex hominibus adsumptus pro hominibus constituitur in his quae sunt ad Deum
Omnis saturatio mala, panis autem pessima
Omnis traductor traditor
Every translator is a traitor.
Omnis vir tigris
Every man a tiger.
Omnium artium medicina nobilissima est
Of all the arts, medicine is the noblest.
Omnium autem rerum nec aptius est quicquam ad opes tuendas ac tenendas quam diligi nec alienius quam timeri
Omnium rerum principia parva sunt
The beginnings of all things are small.
Onus est honos
Honour is a burden.
Onus probandi
The burden of proof.
Onus procedendi
The burden of proceeding.
Opera omnia
Complete works.
Opera posthuma
Posthumous works.
Opere et veritate
In deed and in truth.
Operibus anteire
Opinio juris sive necessitatis
An opinion of law or necessity.
Opinionis enim commenta delet dies, naturae iudicia confirmat
For time destroys the inventions of opinion, but confirms the judgements of nature.
Optimi natatores saepius submerguntur
Optimum est pati quod emendare non possis
It is best to endure what you cannot change.
Optimum medicamentum quies est
Opus Anglicanum
English work.
Opus Dei
Ora et labora
Pray and work.
Ora pro nobis
Pray for us.
Orando laborando
By praying, by working.
Oratio obliqua
Indirect speech.
Oratio recta
Direct speech.
Ordo ab chao
Oremus pro invicem
Let us pray for one another.
Otia corpus alunt, animus quoque pascitur illis
Leisure nourishes the body; the mind too is fed by it.
Otia dant vitia
Otiosis locus hic non est, discede morator
Otium cum dignitate
Leisure with dignity.