What is medicine to some, is bitter poison to others.

More Latin Proverbs

• 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.
• 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.