Latin LOLCat: A House Without Books

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. The word for house here, aedes, is the same root as in the English word "edifice." You can read more about that etymology here. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Aedes sine libris similis corpori sine spiritu.

A house without books is like a body without a soul.

Latin LOLCat: Books

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Libri muti magistri sunt.

Books are silent teachers.

Latin LOLCat: Read

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Libros lege; quae legeris, memento.

Read books; what you read, remember.

Latin LOLCat: Books

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Vita sine libris mors est.

A life without books is death.

Latin LOLCat: A Good Book

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. You can see the word liber, "book," in the English word "library." If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Bonus liber amicus optimus.

A good book is your best friend.

Latin LOLCat: Freedom

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

In libris libertas.

In books there is freedom.

Latin LOLCat: Reading Books

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. Of course this saying applies to many more things than just books: it is the USING of things, not just the having of them, which matters. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latinablog.

Libros paucos legere utilius, quam multos habere.

It is more useful to read a few books than to have a great many of them.

Latin LOLCat: One Book

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Timeo hominem unius libri.

I fear the man of one book.

Latin LOLCat: Learned

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. The idea here is that book-learning is not the same as real learning; to be learned when you have a book in hand is one thing — but to be learned even if you don't have the book with you is even better. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Doctus cum libro.

Learned, with a book.

Latin LOLCat: Books and Education

Here is today's Latin LOLCat. The Latin is in the plural - doctos, "does not make learned (men)." For the same of the cats, though, I changed it to a second-person singular expression. If you are interested in Latin proverbs and fables, check out the Bestiaria Latina blog.

Non efficit doctos librorum copia.

An abundance of books does not make you educated.