Latin
Quotations F

 

Facilius est multa facere quam diu
It is easier to do many things, than one thing consecutively
Quintilian, Instituto Oratoria 1/12:7

Factum fieri infectum non potest
It is impossible for a deed to be undone
[variously attributed]

Fas est et ab hoste doceri
It is lawful to be taught even by an enemy
Ovid, Metamorphoses 4:428

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas
Fortunate is he who is able to find out the causes of things
Vergil, Georgics 2:490 [variant]

Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt
Men readily believe what they want to believe
Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3:18

Festina lente
Make haste slowly
Motto of Augustus Caesar

Fiat justitia, ruat coelum
Let justice be done, though the Heavens should fall
attributed to Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus
for a later derivative, see next

Fiat justitia et pereat mundus
Let justice be done, even if the world should perish
Ferdinand I of Spain
compare preceding

Finis coronat opus
The end crowns the work
attributed to Ovid

Formosam resonare doces Amaryllida silvas
You [Tityrus] teach the woods to re-echo with "fair Amaryllis"
Vergil, Eclogues 1:5
recited by Henry Gosse, thus fascinating ten-year-old Edmund (Father and Son 151)

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit
see the short form of this Vergil quotation at Haec olim

 

 

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