Latin Love Quotes

Amor non discitur, amor cognoscitur, sed id non animadvertis donec amorem invenis - Love is not something you learn, love is something you know, but do not realise until you find it.

Amor occidit - Love kills.

Amor ordinem nescit - Love does not know order. - Saint Jerome

Amor patriae nostra lex - Love of the fatherland is our law.

Amor platonicus - Platonic love.

Amor proximi - Love of one's neighbour.

Amor sceleratus habendi - Accursed love of possessing. - Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso]

Amor tussisque non celantur - Love, and a cough, are not concealed. - Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso]

Amor vincit omnia - Love conquers all things. (Eclogae) - Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro]

Amor vincit omnia; et nos cedamus amori - Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love. (Eclogae) - Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro]

Amore ac Studio - By Love and By Study. (Motto of Bates College, Lewiston, ME)

Amore Ac Studio - Love of Learning. (Motto of Bates College) - Charles Sumner

Amore donatum - Bestowed in love.

Amore sitis uniti - Love thirsts for unity. (Motto of the Tin-Plate and Wire-Workers' Company)

Amore, more, ore, re - (With) love, behaviour, words, actions. - Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro]

Amorem acuit absentia,eum praesentia confirmat - Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. - Thomas Fuller

Amorem parit amor. Hic angor meum est gaudium - Love begets love. This torment is my joy. - Theodore Huebner Roethke

Amores De tenero meditatur ungui - She dreams of love while yet a child. - Horace [Quintus Horacius Flaccus]

Amori finem tempus, non animus facit - Time, not the mind, puts an end to love.

Amori omnino indulge - Give all to love. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Amoris vulnis idem sanat qui facit - The wounds of love are cured by love itself.

An similem aestivae pingam te, care, diei? Haud ita fit constans, haud ita pulchra dies - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. - William Shakespeare

Anima magis est ubi amat, quam ubi animat - The soul is more where it loves, than where it lives.

Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentis gaudet amantis - Though equal pains her peace of mind destroy, A lover's torments give her spiteful joy. - Juvenal [Decimus Junius Juvinalis]

Arguit, arguito: quicquid probat ilia, probato: Quod dicet, dicas: quod negat ilia, neges. Riserit, arride: si flebit, flere memento; Imponat leges vultibus ilia tuis - To a lover. Blame, if she blames; but if she praises, praise. What she denies, deny; say what she says. Laugh, if she smiles; but if she weeps, then weep, And let your looks with hers their motions keep. - Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso]

Audax ad omnia foemina, quae vel amat vel odit - A woman will dare anything, when she loves or hates.

Audentum Forsque Venusque juvant - Fortune and love favour the brave. - Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso]

Aurea nunc vere sunt saecula; plurimus auto Venit honos; auro concilatur amor - Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured. - Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso]

Aurum per medios ire satellites Et perrumpere amat saxa potentius Ictu fulmineo - Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break. - Horace [Quintus Horacius Flaccus]

Aut amat, aut odit mulier: nil est tertium - A woman either hates or loves: there is nothing in between. - Publius [Publilius Syrus]

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Bonum est, pauxillum amare sane, insane non bonum est - It is good to be moderately and wisely in love; to be madly in love is not good. - Plautus [Titus Maccius Plautus]