Relinquo vos liberos ab utroque homine.
“I leave you free from both men.”
Tradition holds these were Saint Marinus's dying words in 366 AD, releasing the community on Monte Titano from allegiance to any single secular or ecclesiastical ruler — the origin of San Marino's motto 'Libertas.'
— Saint Marinus, San Marino
Source: Attributed dying words of Saint Marinus, from the founding hagiography of San Marino (earliest surviving manuscripts, 10th century); discussed in William Miller, 'The Republic of San Marino,' The American Historical Review, Vol. 6, No. 4 (1901)
More Proverbs from San Marino
Practice makes perfect.
A skill is only mastered through repeated doing, not through thinking about it.
Leave a jest when it pleases you best.
A joke stays enjoyable only if it is kept short and does not overstay its welcome.
When fortune knocks, be sure to open the door.
Seize an opportunity the moment it appears, because it may not return.
The good mother does not say "will you?" — she gives.
True generosity acts on its own, without waiting to be begged or asked twice.
Charity begins at home.
Care for your own household and community first, before reaching outward.
The wheel of fortune is forever in motion.
Luck and circumstance are never fixed — they rise and fall over time.