List of Best Latin Proverbs in Life Love Friendship Time
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Death is common to all.
Latin Proverbs
No peacock envies another peacock his tail. |
He dies twice who perishes by his own hand. |
He dies before he is old who is wise before his day. Latin Sayings |
Close sits my shirt, but closer my skin. |
Fruit ripens not well in the shade. |
Old age is in itself a disease. |
Different men like different things. |
By ignorance we mistake, and by mistakes we learn. |
Happy the man who keeps out of strife. |
Success alters our manners. |
One man uses his tongue, another his teeth. |
The remedy for injuries is to forget them. |
Many promises impair confidence. |
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. |
Ignorance is not privileged by titular degrees. |
Gold is proved by fire. |
A middle course is the safest. |
It doubles the value of a gift to be well-timed. |
Truth may be suppressed, but not strangled. |
It is not allowed in war to blunder twice. |
Force not favours on the unwilling. |
A covetous man does nothing that he should till he dies. |
Conviviality reveals secrets. |
Nothing dries up more quickly than a tear. |
Every soil does not bear the same fruit. |
A service done to the unwilling is no service. |
It is better to be always prepared than to suffer once. |
The dead are the best counsellors. |
Fight with silver spears, and you will overcome everything. |
I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard. |
He who waits till an opportunity occurs may wait for ever. |
Truth becomes lost in the turmoil of arguments. |
Men see more of the business of others than of their own. |
Drown not thyself to save a drowning man. |
After darkness comes light. |
There is no accounting for tastes. |
I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction. |
Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher. |
Prudence is the charioteer of all virtues. |
He catches the best fish who angles with a golden hook. |
Early rising is most conducive to health. |
An old woman would dance. |
Opportunity never knocks twice at any man's door. |
Pursue that course which offers most advantages, habit will soon make it agreeable and easy. |
Latin Sayings in English |
A bow too much bent is broken. |
We find much ingratitude, and create more. |
Make too much haste and pay the penalty. Latin Sayings in English |
Our own house surpasses every other. |
Less of your courtesy, and more of your purse. |
Either by might or by sleight. |
Wickedness and malice only require an opportunity. |
Even a mangy camel will carry more that a herd of asses. |
Revenge is a dish that can be eaten cold. Latin Sayings |
You will mix what is sacred with what is profane. |
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. |
It is never too late to learn. |
Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. |
Wealth not acquired by our own labours, but inherited. |
There is no way to make money so certain as to save what you have. |
Music is the best cure for a sorrowing mind. |
You have hit the nail on the head. |
Deliberation often loses a good chance. |
Too late do I take up the shield after the wound. |
It is a bad bargain, where both are losers. |
You should only believe half of what you see, and none of which you hear. |
Good luck lasts not for ever. |
Even a child may beat a man that's bound. |
Men worship the rising, not the setting sun. |
Deeds not words are required. |
You would frighten a lion with a mask. |
Neither beg of him who has been a beggar, nor serve him who has been a servant. |
Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle produce more milk than our own. |
It is unlucky to marry in May. |
Be old when young, if you would be young when old. |
He is caught in his own snare. |
Little drops produce the shower. |
He has not even a clod of earth left to cover his remains. |
Let not your right hand know what your left hand doeth. |
Latin Proverbs About Love |
Pain mingles with pleasure. |
To be loved, be loveable. Latin Proverbs Download or Share Images |
Love is the fruit of love. |
Lovers are madmen. |
Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion. |
Love is a kind of military service. |
Love would soon perish, unless nourished by Ceres and Bacchus. |
Love and a cough cannot be hid. |
Love brooks no delay. |
Love for those too easily won does not last long. |
Love steals on us imperceptibly. |
Love is like a shuttlecock. |
It is more wicked to love a sin than to commit one. |
Love and dignity do not dwell together. |
To be in love and act wisely is scarcely granted to a god. |
He who is in love with himself need fear no rival. |
A lover should be regarded as a person demented. |
No one loves another better than himself. Latin Sayings |
A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. |
He who loves a one-eyed girl thinks that one-eyed girls are beautiful. |
A woman either loves or hates, there is no third course. |
Habit causes love. |
Every lover is a slave: he follows captive at his mistress's heels. |
No herb can remedy the anguish of love. |
Feigned love is worse than hatred. |
If a man falls in love with a frog, he thinks his frog a very Diana. |
Where the love is, thither turns the eye. |
No folly like being in love. |
Late hours and love and wine lead not to moderation in anything. |
Many will hate you if you love yourself. |
What limit is there in love? |
Even Jupiter himself cannot be in love and wise at the same time. |
The pleasures of love are enhanced by injuries. |
Who loves me loves my dog. |
Perhaps you will soon find another, and a fairer, lover. |
The course of true love never did run smooth. |
Jove but laughs at lover's perjury. |
Music provokes love. |
You can't love Thetis and Galatea at the same time. |
Everything beautiful is loveable. |
What is there that love will not achieve? |
Hay smells different to lovers and horses. |
Kings love the treason, but not the traitor. |
Self-love is a mote in every man's eye. |
Quarrels enhance the pleasures of love. |
By what servant is his master better loved than by his dog? |
The grasshopper is dear to the grasshopper, the ant loves the ant. |
The best things in life are free. Latin Proverbs in English Download |
Into every life a little rain must fall. |
Seek not the luxuries of life lest you reap sorrow. |
Those who are nourished by hope live ever in suspense, and enjoy not life. |
He is unworthy of life who gives no life to another. |
Once in each man's life fortune smiles. |
Whose life is as lightning, his words are as thunder. |
A hard life but a healthy one. |
Man's life is a sojourn in a strange land. |
He took care to enjoy himself as long as life lasted. |
The good fortunes of life fall to the lot even of the base. |
Science is unlimited in its course; life is short. |
A precipice in front of you, and wolves behind you; that is life. |
No man is contented with his lot in this life. |
While there is life there is hope. |
An industrious life is the best security for food in old age. |
Marry a person in your own rank in life. |
To know nothing is the happiest life. |
While life lasts let us enjoy it. |
He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all the contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and is struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream. |
Man's life's a vapor, and full of woes; he cuts a caper, and down he goes. |
How many accidents keep human life a rolling. |
Married life without children is as the day deprived of the sun's rays. |
When a man's mode of life is contemptible, it follows that his preaching is treated with contempt. |
He spends the happiest life who knows nothing. |
Death is common to all. * |
Death defies the doctor. |
Death brings to a level spades and sceptres. |
Death to the wolf is life to the lambs. |
Death is the great leveller. |
Death cancels everything but truth. Latin Sayings |
Death is preferable. |
Death snatches away the most deserving, and leaves the wicked. |
Live your own life, for you will die your own death. |
Hate knows no age but death. |
The fear of death is worse than death itself. |
There's death in the pot. |
Even the fear of death is dispelled by music. |
Poverty is death in another form. |
| I prefer death to disgrace. |
Spur not a free horse to death. |
Let it be well recorded that a harlot is a gate which leads to death. |
He feigns death like a panther. |
There grows not the herb, which can protect against the power of death. |
It is as bad to have too many friends as no friends at all. |
Friends become foes, and foes are reconciled. |
Compete not with a friend. |
They cease to be friends who dwell afar off. |
A dissimilarity of pursuits dissolves friendship. |
Offer not the right hand of friendship to every one. |
In time of prosperity, friends will be plenty, In time of adversity, not one amongst twenty. |
Never malign a friend. |
Friends have all things in common. |
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. |
Dawn is the friend of the muses. |
The silence resulting from absence has destroyed many a friendship. |
It is the duty of friends mutually to correct each other. |
Where there is wealth, friends abound. |
Of no worldly good can the joy be perfect, unless it is shared by a friend. |
It is the essence of good taste to do that which is consistent with our position. |
A trifling pledge of no small friendship. |
Treat your friends as if hereafter they will become your enemies, and your enemies as if they will become your friends. |
Never expect your friends to do for you that which you can yourself accomplish. |
Friendship lasts as long as the pot boils. |
Poverty shows us who are our friends and who our enemies. |
Silence is wisdom and gets a man friends. |
Excess of obligations may lose a friend. |
No man can be happy without a friend, or be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. |
A friend that you buy with presents, will be bought from you. |
Rich for yourself, poor for your friends. |
True friends are tested in adversity. |
When spherical bodies can unite and embrace, then there will be friendship amongst the avaricious. |
In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone. |
When fortune deserts us, our friends are nowhere. |
Both are the better for their mutual friendship. |
Misfortunes make friends. |
A friend that will go to the scaffold with you. |
Poverty trieth friends. |
In forming new friendships, forget not old friends. |
We need not friends if Providence smiles on us. |
No man has a worse friend than he brings with him from home. |
Time has a forelock, but is bald behind. |
Bright enough in the dark, dull in time of day. |
There is always a first time. |
Make good use of your time, it flies fast. |
Tide and time wait for no man. |
Better take time. |
Time softens animosity. |
In time of sickness man is ever on his best behaviour. |
They found no fault with Time, save that he fled. |
It is never too late to ask what time it is. |
Time reveals all things. |
He that gives time to resolve, gives time to deny, and warning to prevent. |
There is a time for everything. |
We have all been fools in our time. |
Time flies with hasty step. |
No horse is so good, but that he will at times stumble. |
Benefits grow old betimes, but injuries are long livers. |
In time of prosperity consider how you will bear adversity. |
When the old dog barks it is time to watch. |
There is a time for all things. |
Sleep not in time of peril. |
The penalty attaching to evil deeds should be thought of in time. |
Be old betimes that thou may'st long be so. |
He will die before he's old who's wise before his time. |
Sooner will a beetle make honey. |
There is a time and place for everything. |
Length of time rots a stone. |
With the idle it is always holy day time. |
Tears are at times as eloquent as words. |
A mouse in time may bite in two a cable. |
More blind than the cast-off skin of a serpent. |
The times are changing; we too are changing with them. |
He who is first in time has the prior right. |
There is a good time coming. |
Lost time is never found again. |
Holyday time will not last forever. |
A small gift, but well-timed. |
The happier the time, the more quickly it passes. |
Lions in time of peace; deer in war. |
The position in which we were before the war. |
To win a war quickly takes long preparation. |
Women's jars breed men's wars. |
When the war is over then comes help. |
You war against heaven. |
War appears pleasant to those who have never experienced it. Latin Proverb in English |
In times of peace we should think of war. |
War gives no opportunity for repeating a mistake. |
If you desire peace, be ever prepared for war. |
Sweet is war to those who have never experienced it. Latin Sayings |
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