• imperare sibi maximum imperium est - "to rule yourself is the ultimate power"
  • aut viam inveniam aut faciam - "I will either find a way or make one"
  • cor aut mors - "Heart or Death"
  • fluctuat nec mergitur - she wavers and is not immersed - "He who rises with the wave is not swallowed by it"
  • lupus in fabula - the wolf in the story - With the meaning "speak of the wolf, and he will come"; from Terence's play Adelphoe.
  • rara avis (Rarissima avis) - rare bird (very rare bird) - An extraordinary or unusual thing. From Juvenal's Satires: rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno ("a rare bird in the lands, and very like a black swan").
  • tempus edax rerum - time, devourer of all things - Also "time, that devours all things", or more literally, "time, devouring of things". From Ovid.
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