- Desiderata
- Latin
- Things desired
- Ne tuons pas la beauté du monde
- French
- Let us not kill the beauty in the world
- The last words of French novelist Huguette Gaulin before she burned herself to death.
- Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus
- Latin
- Mountains will be in labor and an absurd mouse will be born.
- Horace's Ars Poetica
- A metaphor for something long awaited and much hyped that fails to live up to expectations.
- L'esprit de l'escalier
- French
- Spirit of the Stairway
- The feeling of leaving a conversation and suddenly realizing all the things you should've said.
- Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été
- French
- In the depths of winter, I discovered there was in me an invincible summer
- Albert Camus
- Mamihlapinatapai
- Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego
- A look shared by two people, each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but that neither one wants to start.
- Considered the world’s most succinct word and the hardest to translate.
- Perduto è tutto il tempo che in amor non si spende
- Italian
- Lost is all the time that you do not spend in love
- Poet Torquato Tasso, 1595
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