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.