Latin Proverbs (2261 Proverbs)
- 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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- He, who shareth honey with the bear, hath the least part of it.
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- He who owes nothing fears not the sheriff's officer.
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- He who has come to the mill first does not grind last.
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- He that gives bad counsel suffers most by it.
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- He labors vainly, who endeavors to please every person.
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- He is a fool who spares the children after having killed the father.
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- He falls short of his duty to both who tries to serve two masters.
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- Nothing is more humiliating than when a reproach recoils on the head or him who utters it.
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- No man will feed on herbs when meat is to be had.
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- No gain is as certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
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- More naked than the cast-off skin of a serpent.
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- Married life without children is as the day deprived of the sun's rays.
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- Love or hate there is no third course.
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- Let the ignorant learn, and the learned delight in refreshing the memory.
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- Late hours and love and wine lead not to moderation in anything.
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- It will not always be summer (be prepared for hard times)
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- It is sweet and meritorious to die for one's country.
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- It is more difficult to bridle the tongue than to conquer an army.
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- It is better to fly than to remain in disgrace.
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- It is a mean thing to despise unsuccessful merit.
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- In vain the net is spread in the sight of the bird.
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- Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass.
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- If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
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- If a man falls in love with a frog, he thinks his frog a very Diana.
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- I cannot get on with you, or without you.
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- Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
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- He, who neglects the little, loses the greater.
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