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| quae fuerant vitia mores sunt (L) What were once vices are now customs [fashions]. — Seneca, Epistulae 4: 10. |
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| qualis rex, talis grex (L) like king, like people. |
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| quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus (L) Even good Homer sometimes nods; the wisest make mistakes. — Horace, Ars Poetica 359. |
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| quantum mutatus ab illo! (L) How changed from what he (＝Hector) once was! — Virgil, Aeneis 2: 274. |
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| que diable allait-il faire dans cette gal re? (F) What the devil was he going to do in that galley? — Molire, Les Fouberies de Scapin 2: 7. |
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| quem di diligunt adolescens moritur (L) He whom the gods love dies young. — Plautus, Bacchides 4: 7: 18 (hon hoi theoi philousin apothn skei neos (Menander) のラテン語訳). |
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| quem Jupiter [Deus] vult perdere, prius dementat (L) Whom Jupiter [God] means to destroy he first makes mad. |
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| quicquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi (L) Whatsoever foolish thing the kings do, it is the Achaeans [the people] who must suffer. — Horace, Epistulae 1: 2: 14. |
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| quicunque vult servari (L) whosoever will be saved (アタナシオス信条 (Athanasian Creed) の冒頭句). |
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| qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum (L) Who desires peace, let him make ready for war. — Vegetius, De Re Militari 3. Prologue (cf. si vis…). |
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| quid pro quo (L) something in return; an equivalent. |
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| quid rides? mutato nomine, de te fabula narratur (L) Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the tale is told of you. — Horace, Satirae 1: 1: 69-70. |
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| qui laborat, orat (L) He who labors, prays. — St. Augustine (cf. laborare est orare). |
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| qui s'excuse, s'accuse (F) He who excuses himself accuses himself. |
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| quis separabit? (L) Who shall separate (us)? (聖パトリック勲爵士団 (the Order of St. Patrick) のモットー; cf. Rom. 8: 35) |
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| qui stat, caveat ne cadat (L) Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall. (cf. 1 Cor. 10: 12) |
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| qui tacet consentire videtur (L) He who keeps silence is assumed to consent; silence gives consent. (cf. celui qui ne…; chi tace…) |
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| qui timide rogat, docet negare (L) He who asks timidly courts denial. — Seneca, Hippolytus 593-94. |
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| qui transtulit sustinet (L) He who transplanted sustains (us). (米国 Connecticut 州のモットー) |
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| quod non opus est, asse carum est (L) What is not necessary is dear even at a penny. — Seneca, Epistulae 94: 27 (Cato の言葉として引用). |
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| quod scripsi, scripsi (L) What I have written, I have written. — John 19: 22. |
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| quod tibi fieri non vis, alteri ne facias (L) What you do not wish done to yourself, do not to another. (cf. Matt. 7: 12; Tob. 4: 16) |
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| quot homines, tot sententiae (L) So many men, so many minds [opinions]. — Terence, Phormio 2: 4: 14; Cicero, De Finibus 1: 5: 15 (時に誤って tot homines, tot sententiae と引用される). |
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| quousque tandem? (L) How long, pray?; to what lengths? — Cicero, Orationes in Catilinam 1: 1: 1. |
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| quo vadis, (Domine)? (L) (Lord,) whither goest thou? — John 13: 36 (Sienkiewicz の小説 (1896) の題名). |
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