Time is sovereign over all things.

More Latin Proverbs

• To quarrel with a drunk is to wrong a man who is not even there.
• As you are, I was. As I am, you will be. (used on Roman tombstones).
• Appeal to modesty in an argument.
• One corrects customs by laughing at them.
• Glory paid to ashes comes too late.
• Everything that is born passes away. (Quintillan)
• A fox may change its skin but never its character.
• We are slaves of the law in order that we may be able to be free.
• May he love tomorrow who has never loved before; And may he who has loved, love tomorrow as well
• I’ll either find a way or make one.
• The sun shines for everyone.
• It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
• The gods were handed down to us, but we created the Caesars (i.e., the rulers) ourselves.
• Truth conquers all.
• Rome wasn’t built in a day.
• Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
• Temporis ars medicina fere est.
• Straight line is the shortest, straight road is the most safe.
• Time is sovereign over all things.
• Time is the best means of healing. (Ovid)
• He conquers twice who conquers himself in victory. (Publius Syrus)
• Time is the soul of things.
• Laws are silent in times of war.
• He who has begun has the work half done. (Horace)
• Believe that you have it, and you do.
• If you want peace, prepare justice.
• Every man is architect of his own fortune.