Futility Closet

Latin proverbs:

• Audi alteram partem - "Hear the other side."
• Credo quia absurdum - "I believe it because it is absurd."
• Errare humanum est; perseverare diabolicum - "To err is human; to repeat error is of the devil."
• Ex nihilo nihil fit - "Nothing comes from nothing."
• Festina lente - "Make haste slowly."
• Gutta cavat lapidem - "Constant dropping wears the stone."
• Mundus vult decipi - "The world wants to be deceived."
• Natura non contristur - "Nature isn't sentimental."
• Quem di diligunt, adulescens moritur - "Whom the gods love dies young."
• Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor - "I see the better way and approve it, but I follow the worse way."

The motto of the Addams Family is Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc — "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us."