• Heavy is the head that wears the crown
  • Origin & Analysis

JAPANESE:

• Japanese proverbs [ ]
• 悪因悪果 (akuin akka)
  • Literally: evil cause, evil effect / bad causes bring bad results
    • Meaning: Sow evil and reap evil. / You reap what you sow. Note: this is a Buddhist sentiment that emphasizes the idea of karmic retribution.
• 懐かしい (natsukashii)
  • "...the feeling of evocative longing for something past: a nostalgia that's also very sad, as it reminds you that what you're remembering will never come again."
• 物の哀れ (mono no aware)
  • "...describes the particular sadness or sensitivity regarding the passage of time and the transience of life. To experience this sadness is to be affected by the fleeting nature of specific things (love, experiences, sandwiches), and become wistful or reflective about the fact that everything must end."

LATIN:

• Full List of Latin Phrases
• ad astra per alas fideles
  • "To the stars on the wings of the faithful ones"
• ad astra per aspera; per ardua ad astra; per aspera ad astra
  • "to the stars through difficulties," "through struggle (or hardships, or adversity) to the stars," or commonly translated "a rough road leads to the stars"
• ad meliora
  • "Towards better things"
• anno regni
  • "In the year of the reign"
• ante bellum
  • "Before the war"
• aquila non capit muscas
  • "An eagle doesn't catch flies"
    • Meaning: A noble or important person doesn't deal with insignificant issues.
• audeamus
  • "Let us dare"
• auribus teneo lupum
  • "I hold a wolf by the ears"
    • Indicates that one is in a dangerous situation where both holding on and letting go could be deadly
    • Modern equivalent: "to have a tiger by the tail"
• carpe diem
  • "Seize the day"
• carpe noctem
  • "Seize the night"
• cor aut mors
  • "Heart or Death"
    • Meaning: (Your choice is between) The Heart (Moral Values, Duty, Loyalty) or Death (to no longer matter, to no longer be respected as person of integrity.)
• cor unum
  • "One heart"
• cum laude
  • "With praise"
• magna cum laude
  • "With great praise"
• summa cum laude
  • "With highest praise"
• e pluribus unum
  • "Out of many, one"
    • motto of the USA
• ex umbra in solem
  • "From the shadow into the light"
• ex nihilo
  • "Out of nothing"
• fiat lux
  • "Let light be made" / "Let there be light"
• hoc est bellum
  • "This is war"
• Homo sum humani a me nihil alienum puto
  • "I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me."
    • A motto advocating respect for people and cultures that appear different from your own.
• ignis aurum probat
  • "Fire tests gold"
    • Referring to the refining of character through difficult circumstances.
• lux sit
  • "Let there be light"
• mala tempora currunt
  • "Bad times are upon us"
• miserere nobis
  • "Have mercy upon us"
• morituri
  • "Those who are about to die"
• respice adspice prospice
  • "Look behind, look here, look ahead"
• resurgam
  • "I shall arise"
• servabo fidem
  • "Keeper of the faith"
    • Meaning: "I will keep the faith"
• sic itur ad astra
  • "thus one goes to the stars," "such is the pathway to the stars"
• sit venia verbo
  • "May there be forgiveness for the word"
    • Similar to the English idiom "pardon my French".
• sub divo
  • "Under the wide open sky"
• ubi amor, ibi dolor
  • "Where (there is) love, there (is) pain"
• usque ad finem
  • "To the very end"
    • Often used in reference to battle, implying a willingness to keep fighting until you die.
• salva nos
  • "Save us"

FRENCH:

• French Expressions

Hindi:

• Virago विराग
  • "...can also denote a particularly kind of emotional suffering: the sadness or depression caused by separation from somebody you love."

German:

• Mutterseelinallein
  • "It's loneliness, but much harder-hitting than that: it's meant to evoke abandonment by everybody you love, and literally means that your mother's soul has left you."