Latin Final Sentences

Facillima saepe non sunt optima

The easiest things are not often the best things

Difficilia saepe sunt maxima

The difficult things are often the greatest

Meliora studia sunt difficiliora

The better pursuits are more difficult

Pessimi auctores libros plurimos scribunt

The worst authors write very many books

Hi libri peiores sunt quam libri auctorum meliorum

These books are worse than the books of better authors

Puer minor maius donum accepit

The smaller boy received a larger gift

Illa res publica minima maximas spes habuit

That very small republic had the greatest hopes

Plures viri credunt hoc bellum esse peius quam primum bellum

More men believe that this war is worse than the first war

Dux melior cum copiis maioribus veniet

A better leader will come with greater forces

Acres duces acriores copias acerrimorum hostiium saepe laudabant

Fierce leaders often used to praise the fiercer forces of the fiercest enemy

Tyranno pessimo expulso, cives ducem meliorum et sapientiorem quaesiverunt

When the very evil tyrant had been banished, the citizens sought a better and a wiser leader

Meliori duci maius imperium et plus pecuniae dederunt

They gave the better leader greater power and more money

Cives urbium minorum non sunt meliores quam ei urbium maximarum

Citizens of the smaller cities are not better than those of the largest cities

Nos non meliores sumus quam plurimi viri priorum aetatum

We are not better than very many men of former ages

Maiores nostri Apollinem deum solis appellabant

Our ancestors used to call Apollo the god of the sun

Ille dux veniat. Eum expectamus

Let the leader come. We are awaiting him

Cives turpes ex re publica discedant ut in pace vivamus

Let the base citizens depart from our republic so that we may live in peace

Si illi duo amicos cupiunt, vera beneficia faciant

If those two men desire to be friends, let them do real kindness

Beneficia aliis praestat ut ametur

He shows kindness to others in order to be loved

Haec verba felicia vobis dico ne discedatis

I say these happy words to you so that you may not depart

Patriae causa haec dificillima faciamus

Let us do these very difficult things for the sake of our country

Illis miseris plus pecuniae date ne armis contra hostes careant

Give more money to those unfortunate people so that they may not lack arms against the enemy

Putat eos id facturos esse ut iram meam vitent

He thinks that they will do it to avoid my anger

Arma paremus ne libertas nostra tollatur

Let us prepare the arms so that our liberty may not be taken away

Armisne solid libertas nostra e periculo eripietur?

Will our freedom be rescued from danger by arms alone?

Ne sapientes libros difficiliores scribant

Let philosophers not write too difficult books

Satis sapientiae enim a libris difficilioribus non accipiemus

For we shall not receive enough wisdom from too difficult books

Meliora et maiora faciat ne vitam misserimam agat

Let him do better and greater things so that he may not lead a most wretched life

Haec illi auctori clarissimo narra ut in libro eius scribantur

Tell these things to that very famous author so that they may be written in his book

Veritatem semper quaeramus, sine qua maximi animi non possunt esse felices

Let us always seek the truth, without which the greatest souls cannot be happy