List of Latin quotes in Asterix

A 

Acta est fabula: It's all over (lit. the drama has been acted out) 

Alea jacta est: The die is cast  

Audaces fortuna juvat: Fortune favors the bold  

Auri sacra fames: The cursed hunger for gold  

Aut Caesar, aut nihil: Either Caesar or nothing  

Ave atque vale: Hail and farewell  

Ave Caesar morituri te salutant!: Hail, Caesar! Those who are about to die salute you!

B 

Beati pauperes spiritu: Blessed are the poor in spirit 

Bis repetita placent: The things that please are repeated again and again

C 

Caveat emptor: Let the buyer beware 

Cogito ergo sum: I think therefore I am  

Contraria contraiis curantur: Opposites are cured by opposites

D 

De facto: In reality 

De mortuis nil nisi bonum: Speak nothing but good of the dead  

Delenda Carthago: Carthage must be destroyed!  

Desinit in piscem mulier formosa superne: A woman who is beautiful above ends in a fishtail  

Diem perdidi: I have lost the day  

Dignus est intrare: He is worthy to enter  

Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos: As long as you are fortunate, you will have many friends  

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori: It is sweet and fitting to die for the Fatherland

E 

Errare humanum est: To err is human 

Et nunc, reges, intelligite, er udimini, qui judicati terram: And now, kings, understand; you who decide the fate of the Earth, educate yourselves  

Et tu, Brute: You too, Brutus  

Exegi monumentum aere perennius: I have raised a monument more durable than bronze

F 

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas: Fortunate is he who has been able to learn the causes of things 

Fluctuat nec mergitur: It is tossed by the waves but it does not sink

G 

Gloria victis: Glory to the defeated 

Gnothe seauton (Greek): Know thyself

I 

Ipso facto: By that very fact 

Ira furor brevis est: Anger is a brief madness  

Ita est: Thus it is (yes)  

Ita diis placuit: Thus it pleased the gods

M 

Maior e longinquo reverentia: Greater reverence from afar 

Mens sana in corpore sano: A sound mind in a sound body  

Morituri te salutant: Those who are about to die salute you

N 

Non omnia possumus omnes: We cannot all do everything 

Non licet omnibus adire Corinthum: Not everyone is permitted to go to Corinth  

Nunc est bibendum: Now it is time to drink

O 

O tempora, o mores: Oh! the the times! Oh! the habits! 

O fortunates nimium, sua si bona norint agricolas: Oh! blessed beyond all bliss are the farmers, if they but knew their happiness

P 

Panem et circenses: Bread and circuses 

Pax Romana: Roman Peace  

Plaudite cives!: Applaud, citizens!

Q 

Qui habet aures audiendi audiat: He who has ears, let him understand how to listen 

Quid novi?: What's new?  

Quis, quod, ui, quibus auxiliis, cur, quomodo, quando?: Who, what, where, in what ways, why how and when?  

Quo vadis: Whither goest thou?  

Quod erat demomstrandum: We have proved the proposition we set out to prove (lit. Which was to be demonstrated)  

Quomodo vales: How are you?  

Quot capita, to sensus: There are as many opinions as there are heads  

Quousque tandem?: How long?

R 

Redde Caesari quae sunt Caesaris: Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's 

Ruber et Niger: Red and Black

S 

Si vis pacem: If you want peace... (ends: 'para bellum' = prepare for war) 

Sic ad nauseam: And so on to the point of causing nausea  

Sic transit gloria (mundi): Thus passes away the glory of the world  

Singularis Porcus: Wild boar  

Sol lucet omnibus: The sun shines for everyone  

Sursum corda: Lift up your hearts

T 

Timeo Danaos et Dona ferentes: I fear the Greeks even when bearing gifts

U 

Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant: Where they create desolation, they call it peace 

Uti, non abuti: To use, not abuse

V 

Vade retro: Get thee behind me 

Vae victo, vae vicits: Woe to the vanquished men, woe to the vanquished people  

Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity  

Veni vidi vici: I came, I saw, I conquered  

Veritas odium parit: Truth breeds hatred  

Victrix causa diis placuit, sed victa Catoni: The victorious cause pleased the gods, the defeated one pleased Cato  

Victurus te saluto: He who is about to win salutes you  

Video meliora proboque deteriora sequor: I see the better way and approve it, but I follow the worse way  

Vinum et musica laetificant cor: Wine and music gladden the heart  

Vis comica: Sense of humour