facio liberos ex liberis libris libraque
"I make free adults out of children by means of books and a balance."
Notes
Motto of St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland and Santa Fe, New Mexico
Words
- facis – a bundle, packet
- liber – book, child, free, independent, offspring, unrestricted
- libri – book
- libera – free, independent, unrestricted
- libere – frankly, freely, openly
- libra – scales
- libet – agreeable, to be pleasing
- facio – be of service, help, suffer, suit, to experience, to give permission, to sacrifice
- libro – ponder, to launch
- libero – deliver, exempt, liberate, raise, release, to lift, to set free
- libido – caprice, passionate longing, violent desire, whim