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For a long time I rotated a series of Latin phrases as my email signature. Most people never asked what the phrases meant or why I’d included one. But I did it because interdum stultus opportuna loquitur. Here are a few good ones you can use:

• populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo

  Who cares what people say?

• in vota miseros ultimus cogit timor

  There are no atheists in foxholes.

• compendia dispendia

  Shortcuts usually take longer in the end.

• imitatores, servum pecus

  Don’t be a copycat.

• quod sentimus loquamar, quod loquimur sentiamus

  Say what you mean; Mean what you say.