The spoken word vanishes, the written word remains. [Vox audita perit, litteras scripta manet.]
More Latin Proverbs:
Know thyself. [Temet nosce.]Latin
The highest spoke in fortune's wheel may soon turn lowest.
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We have all been fools in our time.
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He, who neglects the little, loses the greater.
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Fortune to one is mother, to another step-mother.
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A fool repays a salve by a stab, and a stab by a salve. [He mistakes friends for foes and foes for friends.]
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