- causa – case, case at law, cause, condition, interest, law, motive, pretext, reason, situation
- facies – appearance, aspect, condition, countenance, face, look, visage
- fortuna – chance, condition, fate, fortune, luck
- habitudo – condition
- res – affair, being, busines, case, circumstance, condition, deed, event, fact, matter, object, occurrence, thing
- valetudo – bad health, condition, good health, health
- actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea – The act does not make [a person] guilty unless the mind should be guilty.
- audentes fortuna iuvat – fortune favors the bold
- causa latet, vis est notissima – The cause is hidden, but the result is well known.
- causa mortis – cause of death
- cucullus non facit monachum – The hood does not make the monk
- donatio mortis causa – giving in expectation of death
- ens causa sui – existing because of oneself
- Ex turpi causa non oritur actio – From a dishonorable cause an action does not arise
- faber est suae quisque fortunae – every man is the artisan of his own fortune
- felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas – happy is he who can discover the causes of things
- ficta voluptatis causa sint proxima veris – fictions meant to please should approximate the truth
- fortes fortuna adiuvat – Fortune favours the bold
- fortunae meae, multorum faber – artisan of my fate and that of several others
- honoris causa – for the sake of honor
- iuventutis veho fortunas – I bear the fortunes of youth
- mater facit – Mother Does It
- metri causa – for the sake of the meter
- natura nihil frustra facit – nature does nothing in vain
- natura non facit saltum ita nec lex – nature does not make a leap, thus neither does the law
- natura non facit saltus – nature makes no leaps
- nemo iudex in causa sua – no man shall be a judge in his own cause
- non causa pro causa – not the cause for the cause
- pretiumque et causa laboris – The prize and the cause of our labour
- propter vitam vivendi perdere causas – to destroy the reasons for living for the sake of life
- rerum cognoscere causas – to learn the causes of things
- stet fortuna domus – let the fortune of the house stand
- tres faciunt collegium – three makes company
- ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant – They make a desert and call it peace
- una hirundo non facit ver – one swallow does not make summer
- vera causa – true cause
- victrix causa diis placuit sed victa Catoni – the victorious cause pleased the gods, but the conquered cause pleased Cato