Vita Brevis

Translation: life’s too short to learn Latin

A piece of text-based art with the words: Vita Brevis – life’s too short to learn Latin.

Vita Brevis translates as life is short, and is mainly associated with the phrase Ars longa, vita brevis which is a Latin translation of a Greek aphorism by Hippocrates meaning something along the lines of “art [as in the learning of a craft] takes time but life is short”