Gaudeamus igitur - Therefore let us party

Gaudeamus igitur
Juvenes dum sumus.
Post jucundam juventutem
Post molestam senectutem
Nos habebit humus.

Ubi sunt qui ante nos
In mundo fuere?
Vadite ad superos
Transite in inferos
Hos si vis videre.

Vita nostra brevis est
Brevi finietur.
Venit mors velociter
Rapit nos atrociter
Nemini parcetur.

Vivat academia!
Vivant professores!
Vivat membrum quodlibet
Vivant membra quaelibet
Semper sint in flore.

Vivant et res publica
et qui illam regit.
Vivat nostra civitas,
Maecenatum caritas
Quae nos hic protegit.

Vivant omnes virgines
Faciles, formosae.
Vivant et mulieres
Tenerae, amabiles
Bonae laboriosae.

Pereat tristitia,
Pereant osores.
Pereat diabolus,
Quivis antiburschius
Atque irrisores.

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Therefore let us party
While we are young!
After pleasant youth
After troublesome old age
The earth will have us!

Where are they who before us
Have been in the world?
Go up to the heavenly regions
Or cross over into the hellish ones
If you wish to see them!

Our life is brief;
It will be ended shortly!
Death comes quickly;
Cruelly it snatches us;
No one will be spared.

Long live the university!
Long live the profs!
Long live any student!
Long live any students whatsoever!
May they always be the best!

Long live the republic also
And those who rule it!
Long live our city,
And the charity of benefactors
Which protects us here!

Long live all virgins
Affable and shapely!
Long live mature women also,
Tender and lovely,
Loyal and industrious!

Let sadness perish!
Let haters perish!
Let the devil perish,
Along with anybody else who is anti-scholarship
And anti-intellectual!