Latin College mottos – Flashcards
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Amherst College
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Terras irradient. ("Let them illumine the earth.")
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Brooklyn College
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Nil sine magno labore. ("Nothing without great effort.")
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Brown University
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In Deo speramus. ("In God we trust.")
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City College of New York
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Respice, adspice, prospice. ("Look back, look to the present, look to the future.")
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Columbia University
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In lumine tuo videbimus lumen. ("In thy light, we shall see light.")
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Dartmouth College
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Vox clamantis in deserto. ("A voice of one crying in the wilderness.")
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Delaware College
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Scientia sol mentis. ("Knowledge, the sun of the mind.")
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Fordham University
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Sapientia et doctrina. ("Wisdom and knowledge.")
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Harvard University
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Veritas. ("Truth.")
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Hunter College
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Mihi cura futuri. ("My anxiety is for the future.")
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Johns Hopkins University
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Veritas vos liberabit. ("Truth will free you.")
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Miami University
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Prodessequam conspici. ("To the productive, rather than to be ornamental.")
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New York University
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Perstare et praestare. ("To preserve and to surpass")
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Trinity College
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Pro ecclesia et patria. ("For church and country.")
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Tulane University
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Non sibi, sed suis. ("Not for herself, but for her own.")
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University of Chicago
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(Let knowledge increase, let life be perfected) crescat scientia, vita excolatur
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University of Florida
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Civium in moribu rei publiae salus. ("In the character of its citizens lies the welfare of the state.")
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University of Michigan
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Artes, scientia, veritas. ("The arts, knowledge, truth.")
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University of Mississippi
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Virtute et armis. ("By valour and arms.")
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University of Missouri
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Salus populi. ("The welfare of the people.")
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University of New Mexico
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Lux hominum vita. ("Light of the life of men.")
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University of Washington
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Lux sit. ("Let there be light.")
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Yale University
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Lux et veritas. ("Light and truth.") Deus nobis fiducia
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George Washington University
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(God is our trust) disciplina praesidium civitatis
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University of Texas
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(Instruction is the safeguard of the state) Deus lux Mea
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Catholic University of America
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(God is my light) Dei sub numine viget
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Princeton University
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(It flourishes under the will of God) Dei sub numine viget
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Notre Dame University
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(The cross is the only hope) crux spes unica
