Expert: Maria - 9/20/2007

Question
Can you please translate this from English to Latin please.
"NOTHING SUCCEEDS SUCCESS"
"YOU ARE, WHAT YOU BELIEVE YOU ARE".

Thanks in advance

Answer
Hello,

Here are the translations you asked me:

-"Nihil  succedit ut successus”  (Nothing succeeds like success”)

-“Quod esse credis, certe es" (You are, what you believe you are).

Best,
Maria
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Note that:

-Nothing= NIHIL (nominative neuter)

-Succeeds= SUCCEDIT (from the verb SUCCEDO,3rd.conjugation)

-Like= UT. You’ve forgotten ‘like’ in you text.

-Success= SUCCESSUS (nominative, 4th.declension)

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-You are = ES ( from SUM, I am)

-What= QUOD (relative pronoun)

-You believe  you are= CREDIS (from CREDO, I believe) ESSE (infinitive of SUM, as it is in an infinitive clause in Latin).

I’ve added CERTE (certainly) to emphasize the statement.

As you can see, Latin word order ca be different from English.