Latin Proverbs (2261 Proverbs)
- He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.
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- Had he not been visited by sickness, he would have perished utterly.
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- From what has taken place we infer what is about to happen.
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- Fortunate is he whom the dangers of others have rendered cautious.
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- Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.
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- Every little blade of grass declares the presence of God.
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- Enjoying the fruits of the labour of others.
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- Don't do that of which you doubt the propriety.
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- Correct a wise man, and he will be grateful; correct a fool, and he will not only give a deaf ear, but send you off with a flea in your ear.
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- By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
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- Believe that you have it, and it is yours.
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- Be angry with a murderer, but keep your compassion for his victim.
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- An ungrateful man is a tub full of holes.
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- An ancient custom, not of to-day or yesterday.
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- After the manner of Mandrabulus [i.e., going from worse to worse].
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- A well-beaten path does not always make the right road.
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- Happy's the wooing that is not long a-doing.
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- Habit in sinning takes away the sense of sin.
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- From his silence a man's consent is inferred.
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- Forgetting trouble is the way to cure it.
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- Fear increasing age, for it does not come without companions.
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- Every innovation startles us more by its novelty than it benefits us by its utility.
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- England is the paradise of women, the hell of horses, and the purgatory of servants.
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- Do not lengthen the quarrel while there is an opportunity of escaping.
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- Consideration gets as many victories as rashness loses.
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- By ignorance we mistake, and by mistakes we learn.
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- Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.
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- Bad is want which is born of plenty.
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- An opportunity is found with difficulty and easily lost.
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- All things come not to pass which the mind has conceived.
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- Acting is the forte of all their race.
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- A well which is drawn from is improved. [Art is improved by practice.]
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- Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
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- Grieving for misfortunes is adding gall to wormwood.
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- From the old ox the young one learns to plough.
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- For the king, the laws and the people.
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- Favours should never be forced upon others against their will.
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- Every great thing only consists of many small particles united.
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- Empty the glass if you would judge of the drink.
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- Do not give an opinion until it is asked for.
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- Confound those who have anticipated us in what we would have said!
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- By good nature and kindness even fierce spirits become tractable.
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- Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything.
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- At once a good general and a stout soldier.
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- An old woman dancing makes a great dust. [Anything out of season is obnoxious.]
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- All things change, and we change with them. [Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in illis.]
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- Acting in concert, like the oil-merchants in the Velabrum.
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- A want of pence stops all your marketing.
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- Having mastered the lesser difficulties, you will more safely venture on greater achievements.
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- Grieve not for that which is irreparably lost.
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- From the miseries of others he fears for his own position.
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- Fling him into the Nile, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.
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- Fain would the cat fish eat, But she is loth to wet her feet.
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- Even the smallest spark shines brightly in darkness.
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- Eloquence avails nothing against the voice of gold.
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- Do chattering monkeys mimic men, Or we, turned apes, out-monkey them?
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- Close sits my shirt, but closer my skin.
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- By doing nothing men learn to do evil.
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- Believe not that the stream is shallow because its surface is smooth.
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- Assistance given when it is not required, is as bad as an injury.
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- An old lion is better than a young ass.
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- All things are easy that are done willingly.
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- According to the nature of his sin shall a man be punished.
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- A troubled heart is a worm to the bones.
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- Having achieved your purpose, seek not to undo what has been done.
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- Great discomfort arises from too hearty a supper: if you would enjoy a tranquil sleep let your supper be a light one.
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- From small things a great heap is made.
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- Flight towards preferment will be but slow without some golden feathers.
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- Explaining what is obscure by what is still more obscure. [Making confusion worse confounded.]
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- Even the rustling of leaves will alarm the hare.
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- Either never attempt a thing or carry it out.
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- Do business best when the wind's in the west.
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- Chalk is the pen of fools, walls their paper.
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- By a brave endurance of unavoidable evils, we conquer them.
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- Believe not that all that shines is gold.
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- As you have arranged the thread so must you weave it.
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- An old fox is not to be caught in a trap.
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- All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.
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- A woman is to be from her house three times: when she is christened, married and buried.
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- A sword of lead in a scabbard of ivory.
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