as it were

• quasi – a sort of, as if, as it were, just as, just as if
• sicut – as, as it were, just as, just as if
• disce quasi semper victurus vive quasi cras moriturus – Learn as if always going to live; live as if tomorrow going to die.
• filae nostrae sicvt angvli incisi similitvdine templi – may our daughters be as polished as the corners' of the temple