page_title: List of sundial mottos
section_title: Human mortality
hierarchical_section_title: List of sundial mottos / Latin mottos / Human mortality
caption_attribution_description: English: Sundial on what is now the Great London Mosque (320559). The Latin motto Umbra sumus means "we are shadow", and are taken from Horace's statement Pulvis et umbra sumus, meaning "We are dust and shadow".
context_page_description: Many sundials bear a motto to reflect the sentiments of its maker or owner.
context_section_description: Ex iis unam cave. (Beware of one hour.)
  Lente hora, celeriter anni. (An hour passes slowly, but the years go by quickly.)
  Meam vide umbram, tuam videbis vitam. (Look at my shadow and you will see your life.)
  Memor esto brevis ævi. (Remember how short is life.)
  Mox nox. (Night, shortly.)
  [Nobis] pereunt et imputantur. ([The hours] are consumed and will be charged [to our] account)
  Omnes vulnerant, ultima necat. (All hours wound; the last one kills.)
  [Pulvis et] umbra sumus. (We are [dust and] shadow.)
  Serius est quam cogitas. (It's later than you think.)
  Sic labitur ætas. (Thus passes a lifetime.)
  Sic vita fluit, dum stare videtur. (Life flows away as it seems to stay the same.)
  Ultima latet ut observentur omnes. (Our last hour is hidden from us, so that we watch them all.)
  Umbra sicut hominis vita. (A person's life is like a shadow.)
  Una ex his erit tibi ultima. (One of these [hours] will be your last.)
  Ver non semper viret. (Springtime does not last.)
  Vita fugit, sicut umbra (Life passes like the shadow.)
  Vita similis umbræ. (Life resembles a shadow.)
caption: Horace's Umbra Sumus on Brick Lane Mosque, London
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