« Medicus curat, natura sanat » 🇫🇷 Le médecin soigne, la nature guérit. 🇺🇸 The doctor treats, nature heals.An old Latin aphorism praising nature’s healing powers🙏🏻 🇯🇵 医者は治療して、自然は治す。自然のヒーリング・パワーを称えるラテン語の格言🌏(いしゃ は ちりょうして、しぜん は なおす。しぜん の ヒーリング・パワーを たたえる ラテンご の かくげん)
« Vita non est vivere sed valere » -Martial 🇫🇷 La vie ne consiste pas à vivre, mais à vivre en bonne santé 🟰 conseil judicieux de Martial: vivons, mais vivons bien. Remarquez aussi les allitérations en « v » en latin, qui font tout le charme de cette maxime. 🇺🇸 Life is not to live but to live […]
« Homo homini lupus » – Plautus 🇺🇸 Man is wolf to man 🇫🇷 L’homme est un loup pour l’homme 🇯🇵 人間は、人間にとって狼である コメント： 日本語の「弱肉強食」に少し似ていますね！ Ningen wa ningen ni totte ookami de aru Kommento: nihongo no “jakuniku kyoushoku” ni sukoshi niteimasune!
“Hominis est errare, insipientis perseverare” 🇫🇷 L’homme commet des erreurs, seul l’idiot persiste 🇺🇸 Men make mistakes, only the fool persists Another variation “Errare humanum est” is interesting, because the verb “errare” in Latin means not only “to make mistake” but also “to wander, lose one’s way.” The English “to err” kept the first meaning, […]
« Semper avarus eget » – Horace 🇫🇷 L’homme avare est toujours dans le besoin 🇺🇸 The greedy man is always in need 🇯🇵 強欲な者は常に貧困である Gouyoku na mono wa tsuneni hinkon dearu
You may have heard a lot about Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s trial lately. After Depp’s win, I’ve seen a few commentators mention a Latin phrase used in law, as to why they believed Amber Heard lost her case. Let’s take a look at it. “Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus.” It means “false in […]
« Per aspera ad astra »🌙 🇺🇸 Through hardships to the stars Latin proverb that resonates especially in these hard times🙏🏻🌙 🇫🇷 Par les difficultés jusqu’aux astres Proverbe latin qui résonne particulièrement en ces temps difficiles. 🇯🇵困難を通り抜けて、星へ 今の時期、特に心に響くラテン語の名言。みんなでこの困難を乗り越えて星の様に輝きましょう💫 Konnann wo toorinukete hoshi e Ima no jiki tokuni kokoro ni hibiku ratengo no meigen. Minna de kono konnan […]
« Philosophia est ars vitae » – Cicero 🇺🇸 Philosophy is the art of life 🇫🇷 La philosophie est l’art de la vie 🇯🇵 哲学は、人生の芸術である Tetsugaku wa jinsei no geijutsu dearu
« Debemus iram vitare » – Seneca 🇺🇸 We must avoid anger Words that Seneca wrote while thinking of Caligula who was often governing with anger. Aside from “anger,” “ira” also means “hatred” in Latin. Which is interesting, because in Japanese, we have a word with similar sound and meaning, “ira ira” (イライラ). It is the onomatopoeia […]
« Une histoire à dormir debout »💤 🇺🇸 It means a “ridiculous nonsense story,” and literally “a story to sleep standing.” Originally, this expression was used to describe stories which were so boring that they made people sleep, even when standing. It then shifted to a story hard to believe by its nonsense. « Mais c’est quoi […]