Some examples of my original Latin verse
in nullosque deos, in nullaque numina credo,
inque caduca magis credere uiua uolo.
My own backwards take on Credo in unum Deum. The word caduca (“earthly things”) is typically used pejoratively as a contrast to aeterna, the higher and the heavenly. But for me, that’s just the wrong way round.
(Paraphrase): I prefer to believe in this living world than invisible spirits in the sky.
Luna mane lucens clare,
gaudens Sole nunc micare
nequit umbra te uelare.
Luna lucis Solis plena
labens super me serena
neque tractat te catena,
quae retractat me submissum
ex Olympo nunc demissum
uinctum sine spe amissum.
Luna lenis, me precatum
iuues scire meum fatum
terra non in caelis natum.
(1)
iam culpas alias animo patientius aequo
ferre tibi liceat, nec tolerare tuas.
* * *
(2)
natura aduersa, rationeque mente neganti,
ne capias uanas consilia atque uias.
* * *
(3)
non tibi non umquam circum te uoluitur orbis;
uel te uel non te uoluitur orbis item.
* * *
(4)
est puerilis se flammare frequenter ad iram;
sit se contentus tempore maior homo.
* * *
(5)
quod potes, hoc facias bene, fortiter atque libenter;
nec te paeniteat quod nequit illud agi.
* * *
(6)
res ipsae modo res, rerum modo motus inanis;
mens solus regnumst imperiumque tuum.
* * *
Translations:
(1) Be patient of people’s faults, but not your own.
(2) Don’t make plans that can’t be realized.
(3) You are not the center of the universe.
(4) Anger is a sign of immaturity – grow up.
(5) Do the best you can and don’t worry about the rest.
(6) Shit happens – you are only responsible for yourself.