From reflections on the fleeting nature of life to meditations on the afterlife, explore the 20 most popular Latin quotes, phrases, and sayings about death.
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Death rather than dishonour.Malo mori quam foedari
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Death is certain, its hour is uncertain.Mors certa, hora incerta.
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Life is uncertain, death is most certain.Vita incerta, mors certissima.
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Death always wins.Mors vincit omnia.
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Old age should rather be feared than death.Morte magis metuenda senectus.
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The dead teach the living.Mortui vivos docent.
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Remember that [you will] die.Memento mori.
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In the midst of our lives we die.Media vita in morte sumus.
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That which virtue unites, let not death separate.Virtus junxit mors non separabit.
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If glory comes after death, I hurry not.Si post fata venit gloria, non propero.
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Of the dead nothing but good is to be said.De mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est.
He whom the gods love dies young.Quem di diligunt adulescens moritur.
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An honourable death is preferable to a shameful life.Honesta mors turpi vita potior.
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Dead men don’t bite.Mortui non mordent.
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Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas regumque turres.
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Live remembering death.Vive memor leti.
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A man without money is the image of death.Homo sine pecunia imago mortis.
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Honesty and virtue flourish after death.Honor et virtus post morte floret.
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Today it’s me, tomorrow it will be you.Hodie mihi, cras tibi.
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The reward of sin is death.Stipendium peccati mors est.
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