Human Mortality
- Vita fugit, sicut umbra (Life passes like the shadow.)
- Vita similis umbrae. (Life resembles a shadow.)
- Umbra sicut hominis vita. (A person's life is like a shadow.)
- Meam vide umbram, tuam videbis vitam. (Look at my shadow and you will see your life.)
- Memor esto brevis aevi. (Remember how short is life.)
- Ex iis unam cave. (Beware of one hour.)
- Una ex his erit tibi ultima. (One of these hours will be your last.)
- Omnes vulnerant, ultima necat. (All hours wound; the last one kills.)
- Serius est quam cogitas. (It's later than you think.)
- Sic labitur aetas. (Thus passes a lifetime.)
- Lente hora, celeriter anni. (An hour passes slowly, but the years go by quickly.)
- Ultima latet ut observentur omnes. (Our last hour is hidden from us, so that we watch them all.)
- Ver non semper viret. (Springtime does not last.)
- Sic vita fluit, dum stare videtur. (Life flows away as it seems to stay the same.)
- Pereunt et Imputantur. (The hours are consumed and will be charged to our account)
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