Nam et ipsa scientia potestas es - Knowledge is power. (Sir Francis Bacon)

　　Nascentes morimur - From the moment we are born, we begin to die

　　Natale solum - Native soil

　　Natura abhorret a vacua - Nature abhors a vacuum

　　Natura in minima maxima - Nature is the greatest in the smallest things

　　Natura nihil fit in frustra - Nature does nothing in vain

　　Natura, artis magistra - Nature, the mistress of art

　　Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret - You can drive nature out with a pitchfork but she always comes back

　　Navigare necesse est - To sail is necessary

　　Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum! - Don't you dare erase my hard disk!

　　Ne cede malis - Yield not to evils

　　Ne feceris ut rideam - Don't make me laugh

　　Ne humanus crede - Trust no human

　　Ne nimium - Not too much

　　Ne plus ultra - No further. Impassable obstacle

　　Ne quid nimis - Nothing in excess. (Terence)

　　Nec laudas nisi mortuos poetas: tanti non est, ut placeam, perire - If only dead poets are praised, I'd rather go unsung

　　Nec mortem effugere quisquam nec amorem potest - No one is able to flee from death or love

　　Nec possum tecum vivere, nec sine te - I am able to live / I can live neither with you, nor without you. (Martial)

　　Nec verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus interpres - As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word. (Horace)

　　Necesse est multos timeat quem multi timent - He must fear many, whom many fear. (Laberius)

　　Necessitas non habet legem - Necessity knows no law

　　Negotium populo romano melius quam otium committi - The Roman people understand work better than leisure

　　Nemine contradicente (nem. con.) - With no one speaking in opposition. Unanimously

　　Nemine dissentiente (nem. diss.) - With no one disagreeing

　　Nemo ante mortem beatus - Nobody is blessed before his death. We never know what is future preparing for us!

　　Nemo autem regere potest nisi qui et regi - Moreover, there is no one who can rule unless he can be ruled. (Seneca)

　　Nemo dat quod non habet - No one gives what he does not have

　　Nemo gratis mendax - No man lies freely. A person with no reason to lie is telling the truth

　　Nemo hic adest illius nominis - There is no one here by that name

　　Nemo liber est qui corpori servit - No one is free who is a slave to his body

　　Nemo malus felix - No bad man is lucky. (Juvenal)

　　Nemo me impune lacessit - No one provokes me with impunity. (motto of the Kings of Scotland)

　　Nemo nisi mors - Nobody except death (will part us). (Inscription in the wedding ring of the Swedish Queen Katarina Jagellonica)

　　Nemo propheta in patria sua - No one is considered a prophet in his hometown/homeland

　　Nemo repente fuit turpissimus - No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step. (Juvenal)

　　Nemo risum praebuit, qui ex se coepit - Nobody is laughed at, who laughs at himself. (Seneca)

　　Nemo saltat sobrius nisi forte insanit - Nobody dances sober unless he's insane

　　Nemo saltat sobrius - No man dances sober

　　Nemo sine vitio est - No one is without fault. (Seneca the Elder)

　　Nemo surdior est quam is qui non audiet - No man is more deaf than he who will not hear

　　Nemo timendo ad summum pervenit locum - No man by fearing reaches the top. (Syrus)

　　Nervos belli, pecuniam. (Nervus rerum.) - The nerve of war, money. (The nerve of things.) (Cicero)

　　Nescio quid dicas - I don't know what you're talking about

　　Neutiquam erro - I am not lost

　　Nihil ad rem - Nothing to do with the point

　　Nihil agere delectat - It is pleasant to do nothing. (Cicero)

　　Nihil aliud scit necessitas quam vincere - Necesssity knows nothing else but victory. (Syrus)

　　Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione - I'm not interested in your dopey religious cult

　　Nihil declaro - I have nothing to declare

　　Nihil est ab omni parte beatum - Nothing is good in every part. (Horace)

　　Nihil est incertius volgo - Nothing is more uncertain than the (favour of the) crowd. (Cicero)

　　Nihil est miserum nisi cum putes - Nothing is unfortunate if you don't consider it unfortunate. (Boethius)

　　Nihil est--In vita priore ego imperator romanus fui - That's nothing--in a previous life I was a Roman Emperor

　　Nihil obstat - Nothing stands in the way

　　Nihil sub sole novum - Nothing new under the sun

　　Nihil tam munitum quod non expugnari pecunia possit - No fort is so strong that it cannot be taken with money. (Cicero)

　　Nihil - Nothing

　　Nil actum credens dum quid superesset agendum - Thinking nothing done, while anything was yet to do

　　Nil actum reputa si quid superest agendum - Don't consider that anything has been done if anything is left to be done. (Lucan)

　　Nil admirari - To admire nothing. (Horace)

　　Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit - Not much worth is an example that solves one quarrel with another. (Horace)

　　Nil desperandum! - Never despair! (Horace)

　　Nil homini certum est - Nothing is certain for man. (Ovid)

　　Nil sine numine - Nothing without the Divine Will

　　Nill illigitimi carborundum - Do not let the bastards get you down

　　Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis - Unless you will have believed, you will not understand. (St. Augustine)

　　Nisi prius - Unles previously

　　Nisi - Unless

　　Nolens volens - Whether one likes it or not; willing or unwilling

　　Noli equi dentes inspicere donati - Do not look a gift horse in the mouth. (St. Jerome)

　　Noli me tangere! - Don't touch me! (Versio Vulgata)

　　Noli me voca, ego te vocabo - Don't call me. I'll call you

　　Noli nothis permittere te terere - Don’t let the bastards get you down

　　Noli simul flare sobereque - Don't whistle and drink at the same time

　　Noli turbare circulos meos! - Don't upset my calculations! (Archimedes)

　　Nolite id cogere, cetype w:st="on">cape malleum majorem - Don't force it, get a bigger hammer

　　Nolle prosequi - Do not pursue

　　Nolo contendere - I do not wish to contend

　　Nomen est omen - The name is the sign

　　Nomina stultorum parietibus haerent - The names of foolish persons adhere to walls (Fools names and fools faces are often seen in public places.)

　　Nominatim - By name

　　Non bis in idem - Not twice for the same thing

　　Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat - It's not the heat, it's the humidity

　　Non compos mentis - Not in possession of one's senses

　　Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema - I don't care. If it doesn't rhyme, it isn't a poem

　　Non erravi perniciose! - I did not commit a fatal error!

　　Non est ad astra mollis e terris via - There is no easy way from the earth to the stars. (Seneca)

　　Non est ei similis - There is no one like him

　　Non est mea culpa - It's not my fault

　　Non est vivere sed valere vita est - Life is not being alive but being well (life is more than just being alive)

　　Non Gradus Anus Rodentum! - Not Worth A Rats Ass!

　　Non ignara mals, miseris svccvrrere disco - No stranger to misfortune [myself] I learn to relieve the sufferings [of others

　　Non illigitamus carborundum - Don't let the bastards grind you down

　　Non licet - It is not allowed

　　Non liquet - It is not clear

　　Non mihi, non tibi, sed nobis - Not for you, not for me, but for us - the foundation of a good relationship

　　Non mortem timemus, sed cogitationem mortis - We do not fear death, but the thought of death. (Seneca)

　　Non multa, sed multum - Not many, but much. (Meaning, not quantity but quality) (Plinius)

　　Non nobis, Domine - Not unto us, O Lord

　　Non omne quod licet honestum est - Not everything that is permitted is honest. (Corpus Iuris Civilis)

　　Non omne quod nitet aurum est - Not all that glitters is gold

　　Non omnes qui habemt citharam sunt citharoedi - Not all those who own a musical instrument are musicians. (Bacon)

　　Non omnia moriar - Not all of me will die. (Horace)

　　Non omnia possumus omnes - Not all of us are able to do all things (We can't all do everything.) (Virgil)

　　Non omnis moriar - Not all of me will die. (his works would live forever) (Horace)

　　Non placet - It does not please

　　Non plaudite. Modo pecuniam jacite - Don't applaud. Just throw money

　　Non plus ultra! (Nec plus ultra!) - Nothing above that!

　　Non prosequitur - He does not proceed

　　Non quis, sed quid - Not who, but what

　　Non rape me si placet - Please don't rob me

　　Non scholae sed vitae discimus - We do not learn for school, but for life. (Seneca)

　　Non semper erit aestas - It will not always be summer (be prepared for hard times)

　　Non sequitur - It does not follow

　　Non serviam - I will not serve

　　Non sibi sed suis - Not for one's self but for one's people

　　Non sibi, sed patriae - Not for you, but for the fatherland

　　Non sum pisces - I am not a fish

　　Non sum qualis eram - I am not what / of what sort I was (I'm not what I used to be.)

　　Non teneas aurum totum quod splendet ut aurum - Do not take as gold everything that shines like gold

　　Non timetis messor - Don't Fear the Reaper

　　Non uno die roma aedificata est - Rome was not built in one day (either)

　　Non ut edam vivo, sed vivam edo - I do not live to eat, but eat to live. (Quintilianus)

　　Non vereor ne illam me amare hic potuerit resciscere; quippe haud etiam quicquam inepte feci - I don't think anyone knows I love the girl; I haven't done anything really silly yet

　　Non, mihi ignosce, credo me insequentem esse - No, excuse me, I believe I'm next

　　Nonne amicus certus in re incerta cernitur? - A friend in need is a friend in deed. (our equivalent)

　　Nonne de novo eboraco venis? - You're from New York, aren't you?

　　Nonne macescis? - Have you lost weight?

　　Nosce te ipsum - Know thyself. (Inscription at the temple of Apollo in Delphi.)

　　Nota bene (nb.) - Note well. Observe carefully

　　Novus homo - A new Man; a man who was the first in his family to be elected to an office

　　Novus ordo saeculorum - A new order of ages

　　Novus ordo seclorum - A new order for the ages. (appears on the U.S. one-dollar bill)

　　Nulla avarita sine poena est - There is no avarice without penalty. (Seneca)

　　Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line. Do something every day! (Apeles, Greek painter)

　　Nulla regula sine exceptione - There is no rule/law without exception

　　Nulla res carius constat quam quae precibus empta est - Nothing is so expensive as that which you have bought with pleas. (Seneca)

　　Nulla vit melior quam bona - There's no life better than a good life

　　Nulli expugnabilis hosti - Conquered By No Enemy. (motto of Gibraltar)

　　Nulli secundus - Second to none

　　Nullius in verba - (Rely) on the words on no one. (Horace)

　　Nullo metro compositum est - It doesn't rhyme

　　Nullum crimen sine lege, nulla poena sine lege - No crime and no punishment without a (pre-existing) law

　　Nullum est iam dictum quod non dictum sit prius - Nothing is said that hasn't been said before. (Terence)

　　Nullum gratuitum prandium - There is no free lunch!

　　Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae - There is no one great ability without a mixture of madness

　　Nullum saeculum magnis ingeniis clausum est - No generation is closed to great talents. (Seneca)

　　Nullus est instar domus - There is no place like home

　　Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part. (Pliny the Younger)

　　Numen - Divine power

　　Numero pondere et mensura Deus omnia condidit - God created everything by number, weight and measure. (Isaac Newton)

　　Numerus clausus - A restricted number

　　Nummus americanus - Greenback. ($US)

　　Numquam aliud natura, aliud sapientia dicit - Never does nature say one thing and wisdom say another

　　Numquam non paratus - Never unprepared

　　Numquam se minus solum quam cum solus esset - You are never so little alone as when you are alone. (Cicero)

　　Nunc dimittis - Now let depart

　　Nunc est bibendum - Now we must drink. (Horace)

　　Nvdvm pactvm - A nude pact an invalid agreement a contract with illusory benefits or without consideration hence unenforceable

　　Nvllvm qvod tetiget non ornavit - He touched none he did not adorn - not simply 'the Midas touch', or 'he left things better than he found them', but a tribute to a Renaissance man

　　Nvnc avt nvnqvam - Now or never

　　Nvnc dimittis - Now let [thy servant] depart - generally any permission to go, specifically to express one's readiness to depart or die

　　Nvnc pro tvnc - Now for then retroactive