Latin Proverbs (2261 Proverbs)


  • I kill the boars, but another eats the flesh.
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  • How to live happily, not luxuriously, is the question.
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  • He'd skin a louse, and send the hide and fat to market.
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  • He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober.
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  • He who has received a kindness forgets it; he who has been injured remembers it. [To benefit one and injure another at the same time is a losing game, for revenge is a stronger feeling than gratitude.]
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  • He thinks nothing right, but what he does himself.
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  • He moistens the lips, but leaves the palate dry. [Trifling assistance, of little or no use. ]
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  • He is hunting for water in the sea.
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  • He fishes well who uses a golden hook.
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  • Now it rains, and again the sun shines forth brightly in the heavens.
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  • No one in a shabby coat is treated with respect.
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  • No injury can be complained of by a consenting party.
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  • Mules help to scratch each other. [The bad commend each other.]
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  • May he love tomorrow who has never loved before; And may he who has loved, love tomorrow as well.
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  • Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more.
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  • Life has given nothing to mortals without great labor. [Nil sine magno vita labore dedit mortalibus.]
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  • Let a fool hold his tongue, and he will pass for a sage.
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  • It would puzzle even Apollo to understand it.
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  • It is the essence of good taste to do that which is consistent with our position.
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  • It is no advantage for a man in fever to change his bed.
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  • It is better to say nothing than not enough.
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  • It is a poor dog that's not worth whistling for.
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  • Instead of a treasure, coals!
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  • In courtship a man pursues a woman until she catches him.
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  • If you are contented with your lot, you will live wisely.
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  • If better were within, better would come out.
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  • I have lost my labour and my cost.
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  • How quickly with all is a kindness forgotten!
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  • Hearing he hears not. He is deaf to entreaty. [Aliter., To feign deafness.]
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  • He who paints the flower cannot paint its fragrance.
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  • He who has plenty of pepper may season his food as he likes.
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  • He that would live for aye, must eat sage in May.
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  • He makes his home where the living is best.
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  • He is but a poor husbandman, who sows in sand.
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  • He fishes in troubled waters. [If you wish to catch gudgeons stir up the mud.]
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  • Now I have got a ewe and a lamb, Every one cries, "Welcome, Peter."
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  • No one ever suddenly reached the height of vice.
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  • No horse is so good, but that he will at times stumble.
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  • Mountains will be in labour, and an absurd mouse will be born. [Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.]
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  • Marry a person in your own rank in life.
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  • Lust of power is the strongest of all passions.
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  • Let us be judged of by our actions.
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  • Less of your courtesy, and more of your purse.
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  • It would make a man scratch where it doth not itch, To see a man live poor to die rich.
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  • It is the duty of friends mutually to correct each other.
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  • It is never too late to ask what time it is.
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  • It is better to satisfy our hunger than to be clothed in purple.
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  • It is a no good hen, that cackles in your house and lays in another's.
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  • Instead of a fish he gives you a scorpion.
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  • In chatter a river, in understanding but a single drop.
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  • If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp.
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  • If being well bearded brings happiness. a he-goat must be happier than any of us.
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  • I have lost a day (another day wasted).
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  • How much do we resemble that filthy brute the ape!
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  • Hear all, see all, say nowt, tak' all, keep all, gie nowt, and if tha ever does owt for nowt do it for thysen.
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  • He who oweth is all in the wrong.
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  • He who has once used deception will deceive again.
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  • He that gives time to resolve, gives time to deny, and warning to prevent.
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  • He labours in vain who attempts to please everybody.
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  • He is a wise man who accommodates himself to all circumstances.
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  • He fears neither the earthquake nor the fury of the waves.
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  • Nothing without the divine will. [Nil sine numine.]
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  • No matter her past, when a chambermaid marries a lord she becomes a lady.
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  • No herb can remedy the anguish of love.
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  • Morn with her rosy locks dispels the shades of night, and the sun puts to flight the stars, lighting up the world.
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  • Man's life's a vapor, and full of woes; he cuts a caper, and down he goes.
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  • Love would soon perish, unless nourished by Ceres and Bacchus.
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  • Let them hate, so that they fear me.
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  • Less malevolence, or more power to exercise it.
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  • It would be clear enough even to a blind man.
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  • It is the duty of a good sportsman to kill game freely, but not kill all.
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  • It is more wicked to love a sin than to commit one.
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  • It is better to give than to receive.
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  • It is a misery to be born, a punishment to live, and a trouble to die.
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  • Injuries, when treated with contempt, vanish and have no effect. If you show anger their effect would appear to be acknowledged.
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  • In avoiding that which is evil I have found that which is good.
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  • If there were clouds we should not enjoy the sun.
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  • If all men were on an equality, the consequence would be that all must perish: for who would till the ground? who would sow it? Who would plant? who would press wine?.
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  • I don't want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap.
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  • How many accidents keep human life a rolling.
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