Interesting and useful Latin proverbs

@sanyai (78)
Serbia
September 19, 2017 11:28am CST
Cognito ergo sum I know that's why I am. Scio me nihil scire meaning I know that I don't know. Latin is not live language so we often use Latin proverbs in everyday speech and almost everyone knows its meanings like in English. When we say Lapsus lingue we know that we have made some mistakes while speaking.
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topffer
@topffer (42156)
• France
19 Sep 17
Nomina si nescis, perit et cognito rerum. It is "Cogito ergo sum".
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Koalemos
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
19 Sep 17
Yes, which is the famous quote by Rene Descartes meaning I think therefore I am.
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topffer
@topffer (42156)
• France
19 Sep 17
@Asylum Indeed, and it is not a proverb. The over one is a bit more recent, from Linnaeus : If you do not know their names, the knowledge of things is lost. "CogNito ergo sum", "Known then I am" would not mean anything.
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Xavier Bage
@franxav (13841)
• India
19 Sep 17
I believe it was Descartes who said it. But the original words are "Cogito ergo sum". As philosophy students we used to translate it - I know therefore I am.
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Sanja Ilijev
@sanyai (78)
• Serbia
19 Sep 17
Yes you are right , it is a real translation of the proverb, I use it often.