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Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you.
More Latin Proverbs
Fame to the dead comes too late.
Whoever desires is always poor. (Claudian)
You are worth as many people as the languages that you speak.
Add a little to a little and there will be a great heap.
Empty pots make the most noise.
Even a God finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time.
Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you.
To accept a favour is to sell one’s freedom.
If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.
Conscience is as good as a thousand witnesses.
It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
In matters of taste, there is no argument.
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Don’t speak against the sun. (i.e., don’t argue an obvious fact)
What is medicine to some, is bitter poison to others.
War is sweet to those who have never fought.
From the older ox the younger learns to plow.
Knowledge has no enemies but the ignorant.
All things change, and we change with them.
They condemn what they do not understand.
In the most corrupt state are the most laws. (Terence)
Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.
Do not take as gold everything that shines like gold.
The scar remains.
As you are, I was. As I am, you will be. (used on Roman tombstones).
Appeal to modesty in an argument.
To quarrel with a drunk is to wrong a man who is not even there.
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