"Mao periculosam libertatem quam quietam servitutem"Does using quotes from a different language make people feel like they are smarter than they actually are? Does Latin remind them of their childhoods in ancient Rome? Wow, you must be not only a learned scholar, but a Spartan warfighter too. I'm so happy for all you.
("Rather a dangerous liberty than a peaceful servitude")
Thomas Jefferson
"Una salus victus nullam sperare salutem"
(The one hope of the doomed is not to hope for safety)
Virgil
All I see is a bunch of armchair internet commandos posing as intellectual warriors... Latin quote = I'm SMART, I'm SMART!
Whatever.
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It's almost as bad as a blog full of posts with, each with zero comments.
quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur
semper ubi sub ubi
:-D LOL
I remember the "underwear" one from latin class, but the first one was new to me!
Yeah, I've been ripping on the right... it's a bad habit...
I got plenty to say on the socialist-leftists, probably even more.
But I'm not here to just rant. I just want to start shooting again!
I just hope my lame marksmanship will one day be better than my lame blogging skills!
The reason for the quotes is that the romans, particularly the early Romans had a lot of wise things to say about defense.
"Childhood" is singular.
Cogito ergo bibo!
"Cogito ergo bibo!" - nice one!
I was referring to the collection of childhood and I think it's OK to pluralize them.
It's like talk about a tank full of fish: if you have a handful of goldfish, a few guppies, and 10 Piranha; you can say for example...
"The fishes live in harmony".
Doc Merlin -
An excellent point! I have to admit that I never thought about that.
And I suppose that English's close relation to Latin makes it more likely that we'd use Latin rather than Chinese (quoting Sun Tzu) or Japanese (quoting Miyamoto Musashi).
However, I still think that most of the Latin quotes used out on the internet by Conservatives are not the same Conservatives who know much about Roman strategies... but that is a huge assumption on my part.
{grin}
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