O vitae philosophia dux, o virtutis indagatrix expultrixque vitiorum!

O Philosophy, guide of life, you bring us to right and rid us of wrongs.

-- Cicero

Aurora interea miseris mortalibus almam extulerat lucem referens opera atque labores.

Dawn now raised her nourishing light upon the suffering mortals and renewed their daily grind.

Nonne Socrates iniustae victoriam mortis promeruit?

Did not Socrates reap the victory of an unjust death?

-- Boethius

Si quidem deus est, unde mala? Bona vero unde, si non est?

If there is a god, how can there be evil? And how can there be good if there is not?

-- Boethius

Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artis intulit agresti Latio.

When Greece was captured, she in turn capivated her untamed conqueror and introduced the arts to bumphin Lazio.

-- Horace

Quippe ita formido mortalis continet omnis,

quod multa in terris fieri caeloque tuentur

quorum operum causas nulla ratione videre

possunt ac fieri divino numine rentur.

There's no question all mortals are repressed by fear: they see many phenomena on earth and in the sky which they are unable to account for with any rational explanation, so they imagine them to be the work of gods.

-- Lucretius