We are slaves of the law in order that we may be able to be free.

More Latin Proverbs

• Add a little to a little and there will be a great heap.
• 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.
• To accept a favour is to sell one’s freedom.
• 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.
• In matters of taste, there is no argument.
• 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.
• War is sweet to those who have never fought.
• 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.
• They condemn what they do not understand.
• From the older ox the younger learns to plow.
• Knowledge has no enemies but the ignorant.
• All things change, and we change with them.
• The scar remains.
• 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.
• 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.