{"quotes":[{"text":"Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.).","author":"Horace","tags":["advice","latin","writing","writing-advice"],"id":2217,"author_id":"Horace"},{"text":"He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along.","author":"Ben Aaronovitch","tags":["disguise","language","latin","obfuscated"],"id":18789,"author_id":"Ben+Aaronovitch"},{"text":"All hope abandon, ye who enter here.","author":"Dante Alighieri","tags":["gates-of-hell","hell","latin","motto"],"id":30850,"author_id":"Dante+Alighieri"},{"text":"...To be able to enjoy the life you have spent, is to live it twice.","author":"Marcus Valerius Martialis","tags":["epigams","latin","life","living","martial","reflection","roman"],"id":31865,"author_id":"Marcus+Valerius+Martialis"},{"text":"He was thirty-six years old, and six foot three. He spoke English to people and French to cats, and Latin to the birds. He had once nearly killed himself trying to read and ride a horse at the same time.","author":"Katherine Rundell","tags":["birds","cats","english","french","horseback-riding","horses","humor","humorous","introductions","latin","reading","reading-books","reading-books-humor"],"id":32032,"author_id":"Katherine+Rundell"},{"text":"I have indeed lived and worked to my taste either in art or science. What more could a man desire? Knowledge has always been my goal. There is much that I shall leave behind undone…but something at least I was privileged to leave for the world to use, if it so intends…As the Latin poet said I will leave the table of the living like a guest who has eaten his fill. Yes, if I had another life to spend, I certainly would not waste it. But that cannot be, so why complain?","author":"Léon Camille Marius Croizat","tags":["art","desire","goal","knowledge","latin","life","panbiogeography","poet","science","scientist","waste","work"],"id":36682,"author_id":"L%C3%A9on+Camille+Marius+Croizat"},{"text":"Facilis descensus Averno:Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;Sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras,Hoc opus, hic labor est.(The gates of Hell are open night and day;Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:But to return, and view the cheerful skies,In this task and mighty labor lies.).","author":"Virgil","tags":["aeneid","choices-and-consequences","hell","latin","virgil"],"id":45194,"author_id":"Virgil"},{"text":"Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for proper gentlemen to read, much less proper ladies. I know in precise detail what Caligula did to, and with, his sisters, and I can quote it to you in Latin or in my own translation if you wish. I am interested in historical truth, and truth in history is often unpleasant and distasteful to those of fine sensibility. I frankly doubt that you will produce anything to shock me. ","author":"Mercedes Lackey","tags":["caligula","history","humor","latin"],"id":46025,"author_id":"Mercedes+Lackey"},{"text":"Per aspera ad astra, Papa,' I whispered. Through hardship to the stars.","author":"Ruta Sepetys","tags":["challenges","latin","life","problems","stars"],"id":53085,"author_id":"Ruta+Sepetys"},{"text":"A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...","author":"George Orwell","tags":["facts","latin","rhetoric","sincerity","writing"],"id":57627,"author_id":"George+Orwell"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":59,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}