More Latin for George W. Bush’s America

Posted on January 2, 2004 in IRC/Chat Reading

I know you love this stuff:

• alitur vitium vivitque tegendo — vice lives and thrives by secrecy
• furiosi abstentis loco est — a madman is like a man who is absent
• furiosi nulla voluntas est — a madman has no free will
• furiosi solo furore punitur — a madman is to be punished by his madness alone
• quid leges sine moribus vanae proficiunt — what good are laws when there are no morals?
• veritas nihil veretur nisi abscondi — Truth fears nothing except concealment

From More Latin for the Illiterati: A Guide to Everyday Medical, Legal and Religious Latin. For other Latinisms, click here.