I think you mean "Ars longa, vita brevis," or "Art (is) long,
life short."
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The motto of Porter College is 'Ars Longa, Vita Brevis'.
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The motto of Riga Stradiņš University is 'Ars longa, vita
brevis'.
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Life is short, art is forever (protracted, long, far reaching,
etc.)
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Ars, artis ( as in ars longa, vita brevis) is a Latin word from which derives the English word art. A better modern equivalent to the Latin meaning, however, is science or technology.