Latin

• In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
• Add a little to a little and there will be a great heap.
• To accept a favour is to sell one’s freedom.
• In matters of taste, there is no argument.
• War is sweet to those who have never fought.
• They condemn what they do not understand.
• The scar remains.
• To quarrel with a drunk is to wrong a man who is not even there.
• One corrects customs by laughing at them.
• A fox may change its skin but never its character.
• I’ll either find a way or make one.
• The gods were handed down to us, but we created the Caesars (i.e., the rulers) ourselves.
• Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
• Time is sovereign over all things.
• Time is the soul of things.
• Believe that you have it, and you do.
• The cowl does not make the monk.
• Fame to the dead comes too late.
• Empty pots make the most noise.
• If I can not bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.
• If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
• From the older ox the younger learns to plow.
• In the most corrupt state are the most laws. (Terence)
• As you are, I was. As I am, you will be. (used on Roman tombstones).
• Glory paid to ashes comes too late.
• We are slaves of the law in order that we may be able to be free.
• The sun shines for everyone.
• Truth conquers all.
• Temporis ars medicina fere est.
• Time is the best means of healing. (Ovid)
• Laws are silent in times of war.
• If you want peace, prepare justice.
• Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself. (Terence)
• Whoever desires is always poor. (Claudian)
• Even a God finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time.
• Conscience is as good as a thousand witnesses.
• Don’t speak against the sun. (i.e., don’t argue an obvious fact)
• Knowledge has no enemies but the ignorant.
• Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love.
• Appeal to modesty in an argument.
• Everything that is born passes away. (Quintillan)
• May he love tomorrow who has never loved before; And may he who has loved, love tomorrow as well
• It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
• Rome wasn’t built in a day.
• Straight line is the shortest, straight road is the most safe.
• He conquers twice who conquers himself in victory. (Publius Syrus)
• He who has begun has the work half done. (Horace)
• Every man is architect of his own fortune.
• No one gives what he does not have.
• You are worth as many people as the languages that you speak.
• Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you.
• It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
• What is medicine to some, is bitter poison to others.
• All things change, and we change with them.
• Do not take as gold everything that shines like gold.

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