Latin Proverbs (2261 Proverbs)
- He writes with an iron pen. [That which he writes will not be easily altered.]
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- He who lives by medical treatment has but a wretched existence.
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- He who fears every bramble should not go to the woods.
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- You win a few, you lose a few.
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- You made this mess yourself, and now you must eat it all up.
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- You can never consider that as your own which can be changed.
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- Wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.
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- Where the love is, thither turns the eye.
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- When the head aches, all the members suffer with it.
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- Whatever you do, do with all your might.
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- What harm is there in making a trial?
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- We must not expect everything, everywhere, and from everybody.
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- We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.
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- Truth becomes lost in the turmoil of arguments.
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- To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.
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- Time has a forelock, but is bald behind.
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- They look at the greens, but steal the bacon.
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- There is danger when a dog has once tasted flesh.
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- The spoken word vanishes, the written word remains. [Vox audita perit, litteras scripta manet.]
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- The rabble is not influenced by reason, but blind impulse.
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- The old cask tastes of what the new cask held.
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- The law of requital of injury by injury.
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- The great elephant of India cares not for a gnat.
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- The fish requires salt! [Derisively, the sea abounding with salt.]
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- The cobbler should not go beyond his last. [Meddle not in things which you do not understand.]
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- The antidote before the poison. [To offer excuses before an accusation.]
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- That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.
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- Soft speeches injure not the mouth of the speaker.
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- Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.
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- Providence is always on the side of the big battalions.
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- Our pillow should be our counsellor. [Sleep upon an idea.]
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- Often there is eloquence in a silent gaze.
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- You will wear the ivy wreath, the victor's meed.
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- You let the cat out of the bag.
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- You bring your own evil deeds to light.
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- Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
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- Where the carcass is, there shall the eagles be gathered together.
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- When the battle is over you make your appearance.
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- What! you a hare, and ask for hare-pie!
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- What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.
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- We must live as we can, not as we would wish.
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- We are the authors of our own disasters.
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- Trust not a sword in the hands of a boy.
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- To remove the hairs from a horse's tail, one by one must be plucked out. [Small persevering efforts succeed, when violent measures would fail.]
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- Through diffuculties lies the path to the stars.
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- They limit their expenditure where it is not needed, and are ever lavish of that of which they should be sparing.
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- There is a time when nothing should be said, there is a time when some things may be said. but there is indeed no time in which everything can be said.
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- The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
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- The prolonged visit of no guest is pleasant.
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- The naming of one man amounts to the exclusion of another.
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- The law is hard, but it is the law.
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- The grasshopper is dear to the grasshopper, the ant loves the ant.
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- The field should be poorer than the farmer. [It is useless for a man to attempt farming without capital.]
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- The chamber of sickness is the chapel of devotion.
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- The act itself does not constitute a crime, unless the intent be criminal.
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- That country will I call mine which supports me, not that which gave me birth.
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- Small things occupy light minds (small things amuse small minds).
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- Riches fall not always to the lot of the most deserving.
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- Promises, like pie crust, are made to be broken.
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- Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own.
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- Often a silent face has voice and words.
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- You will mix what is sacred with what is profane.
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- You know not what the evening may bring with it.
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- You ask the path when the high road is before your eyes.
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- Wickedness with beauty is the devil's hook baited.
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- Where the carcase is, there will the vultures be.
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- When spherical bodies can unite and embrace, then there will be friendship amongst the avaricious.
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- What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
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- Wear not boots too big for your feet.
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- We lose the certain things, while we seek the uncertain ones.
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- We are not disposed to study much after heavy meals.
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- Trust no one, until you have eaten a peck of salt with him.
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- To relax the mind is to lose it.
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- Three women will make as much noise as a market.
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- They give, to find a pretext for asking.
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- There is a time and place for everything.
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- The smoke of our own country is brighter than fire abroad.
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- The post of honor is the post of danger.
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- The names of fools are always written on walls.
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- The laughter, the tears, and the song of a woman are equally deceptive.
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