| Culpa est mea | "The fault is mine," Dear Abby's favorite |
| Senatus populusque Romanus | "The Senate and the Roman people," seen today mostly in Rome on manhole covers, street lampposts, etc., and it can be seen in slides and pictures of Rome |
| Persona non grata | "A person unwelcome," used in diplomacy |
| E pluribus unum | "One from many," motto of United States seal seen on money |
| Lapsus linguae | "A slip of the tongue," sometimes in newspapers. |
| Esse quam videri | "To be rather than to seem," Sallust said this of Cato; it is also the motto of North Carolina |
| Condemnant quod non intellegunt | "They condemn because they do not understand," a phrase used to defend almost anything |
| Sic semper tyrannis | "Thus always to tyrants," the state motto of Virginia |
| Sic transit gloria mundi | "Thus passes the glory of the world" |
| Veni, vidi, vici | "I came, I saw, I conquered," the most quoted saying of Caesar |
| Habeas corpus | "You may (must) have the body," a legal term |
| In hoc signo vinces | "In this sign you will conquer," found on a {gasp} cigarette pack |
| Quo vadis | "Where are you going?" |
| Tempus fugit | "Time flies," a phrase from Virgil |
| Summum Bonum | "The Greatest Good" |
| Verbum sat sapienti | "A word to the wise is enough" |
| Te morituri salutamus | "We who are about to die salute you" |
| Semper fidelis | "Always faithful," motto of the Marines |
| Carpe diem | "Seize the day," a phrase from Horace found many places, such as t - shirts |
| Status quo | "The State in Which (we are)" |
| Cui bono | "To whom for a good? (Who got the profit?)," a phrase from Cicero |
| Quid pro quo | "What for what," a phrase that denotes an exchange |
| Non sequitur | "It does not follow" |
| Dum spiro, spero | "While I breathe, I hope" |
| Per Diem | "By the Day," a phrase used in business |
| Pro bono publico | "For the public good," a legal case done for free - called probono |
| Non compos mentis | "Not sound of mind," a legal term |
| Sui generis | "Of its own kind," unique |
| Mens conscia recti | "A mind conscious of right" |
| Caveat Emptor | "Let the buyer beware" |
| Mens sana in corpore sano | "A sound mind in a sound body" |
| Nil disputandum de gustibus | "No disputing about tastes" |
| Sunt lacrimae rerum | "There are tears for things," a phrase from Virgil's Aeneid |
| Descensus Averno facilis est | "Easy is the descent to Avernus," a phrase from Virgil's Aeneid |
| Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes | "I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts," a phrase from Virgil's Aeneid |
| Quod Sum Eris | "I am what you will be," a motto for a gravestone |
| Sine Qua Non | "Without which nothing," an absolute necessity |
| Pro Tempore | "For the Time Being," business, protem |
| Cogito, ergo sum | "I think, therefore I am" |
| Nihil de nihilo fit | "Nothing comes from nothing," simplified from Lucretius |
| Pons Asinorum | "The Bridge of Fools," anything that divides the capable from the incapable, e.g., a geometry problem, a type of medieval SAT |
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