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VERBA VOLANT SCRIPTA MANENT

Words fly away but scripts are permanent

Te quaesivimus in minore campo,

te in circo, te in omnibus libellis. Catullus, LV

I looked for you in the Martian Fields (Piazza del Popolo nowadays), in the circus and in all the benches of the bookshops.

Quoi dono lepidum novum libellum;

arida modo pumice expolitum?   Catullus I

Whom shall I donate this new booklet, freshly

repolished with pumice stone?

Medice, cura te ipsum!   St. Luke 4:23

Doctor, heal yourself!

Tetigisti acu!  Anonymous

You hit the nail on the head! (literally:You touched it with the point of the needle.)

Tenet insanabile multos scribendi cacoethes.  Horace

Many are  possessed by the incurable mania to write.

Divitiae sunt causa malorum. Seneca 

Riches are the cause of misfortune.

Minae non flectent philosophorum animos. 

Menaces will not trouble the mind of philosophers.

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Virgil

Happy are those who have been able to know the root cause of things. 

This saying would be ideal for the Institute of Physics.

Nemo natus est doctus, sed omnes docti fieri possunt studio et constantia.

No one is born knowledgeable, but anyone can become knowledgeable and proud thruogh continuous study. 

Tertium non datur

A third chance, or opportunity, is not available.