I thought that it would be interesting to start a thread featuring quotes:
- about Latin itself ("about" but not "in" Latin), or
- using Latin (but not Latin-only quotes!)
I want to start off with this wonderful - and unfortunately at least for me at the present time still too true - quote from Paul B. Diederich's "The Frequency of Latin Words and their Endings":
As an example for the second type of quotes for this thread, I would like to present a brief quote from an autobiography about the British draughtsman (of wonderful hand-drawn maps) and author A. Wainwright:"Caesar, the first classical author commonly read, is so difficult in vocabulary, syntax, and maturity of content that fewer pupils than Helvetians survive."
Valete,"I'm getting old, that's the trouble. How I wish tempus wouldn't fugit so much."
Carolus Raeticus