Designing Your Character & Other Handy Things 2

Latin Phrases N

Nanos gigantum humeris insidentes
Dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants.

Nascentes morimur finisque ab origine pendet
When we are born we die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning

Nasciturus pro iam nato habetur, quotiens de commodis eius agitur
The unborn is deemed to have been born to the extent that his own inheritance is concerned.

Natura abhorret a vacuo
Nature abhors vacuum

Natura artis magistra
Nature is the teacher of art

Natura nihil frustra facit
Nature does nothing in vain

Natura non contristatur
Nature is not saddened

Natura non facit saltum ita nec lex
nature does not make a leap, thus neither does the law

Natura non facit saitus
nature makes no leaps

Natura valde simplex est et sibi consona
Nature is exceedingly simple and harmonious with itself

Naturalia non sunt turpia
What is natural is not dirty

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret.
You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she still will hurry back.

Navigare necesse est vivere non est necesse
to sail is necessary; to live is not necessary

Ne plus ultra
nothing more beyond

Ne supra crepidam sutor iudicaret
a shoemaker should not judge beyond the shoe

Ne te quaesiveris extra
do not seek outside yourself

Nec aspera terrent
They are not terrified of the rough things

Nec deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus (inciderit)
That a god not intervene, unless a knot show up that be worthy of such an untangler

Nec dextrorsum, nec sinistrorsum
Neither to the right nor to the left

Nec spe, nec metu
without hope, without fear

Nec tamen consumebatur
and yet it was not consumed

Nec temere nec timide
neither reckless nor timid

Nec vi, nec clam, nec precario
Without permission, without secrecy, without interpretation

Neca eos omnes, deus suos agnoscet
kill them all, God will know his own

Necesse est aut imiteris aud oderis
you must either imitate or loathe the world

Necessitas etiam timidos fortes facit
need makes even the timid brave

Nemine contradicente
with no one speaking against

Nemo contra deum nisi deus ipse
No one against God except God himself

Nemo dat quod non habet
no one gives what he does not have

Nemo est supra legem
nobody is above the law

Nemo igitur vir magnus sine aliquot adflatu divino umquam fuit
No great man ever existed who did not enjoy some portion or divine inspiration

Nemo iudex in causa sua
no man shall be a judge in his own cause

Nemo malus felix
peace visits not the guilty mind