More Latin Proverbs
- Believe that you have it, and you do.
- If you want peace, prepare justice.
- Every man is architect of his own fortune.
- In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
- The cowl does not make the monk.
- Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself. (Terence)
- No one gives what he does not have.
- 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.