Opportunity has hair in front; behind she is bald; if you seize her by the fore lock, you may hold her, but, if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Opportunities, Opportunity
We are content to forgo joy when pain is also lost.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Blessings
We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.
—Latin Proverb
The acquisition of wealth is a work of great labor; its possession a source of continual fear; its loss, of excessive grief.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Wealth
Practice is the best master.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Practice
Things hard to come by are much esteemed.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Respect
A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Love
Ignorance is not privileged by titular degrees
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Ignorance
Everyone is given the key to the gates of Heaven. The same key opens the gates of Hell.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Attitude, Open-mindedness
He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Action
Who loves me loves my dog.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Animals
Hidden valor is as bad as cowardice.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Courage
He fights with spirit as well as with the sword.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Warfare, Enthusiasm
To win a war quickly takes long preparation.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Preparation
Once in each man’s life fortune smiles.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Smile
Respect is greater from a distance.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one’s present or future thirst, the excellence of the wine, or any other reason.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Wine, Proverbs, Drinking
A drunken man, when asleep, is better left alone.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Profit, Economy, Wealth
Bad beginnings lead to bad results.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Beginning
Let him who exhorts others to give, give himself.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Giving
Beware of the man of one book.
—Latin Proverb
Friends are thieves of time.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Friendship
Ever drunk, ever dry.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
The future struggles against being mastered.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Future
Deliberate often – decide once.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Thinking
Danger can never by overcome without taking risks.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Danger, Risk
Deliberation often loses a good chance.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Decisions
Bold in design, but timid in execution.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Design
Nature is our mother.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Nature
Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Instincts, Reason
Revenge is a confession of pain.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Revenge, Proverbs, Tragedy
Where curiosity is not the purveyor, detraction will soon be starved.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Curiosity
Possessions dwindle: I mourn their loss. But I mourn the loss of time much more; for anyone can save his purse, but none can win back lost time.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Value of a Day, Time Management
Drunkenness makes some men fools, some beasts, and some devils.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
Nothing that is natural is disgraceful.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Nature
Many promises impair confidence.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Confidence
Rare is agreement between beauty and modesty.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Agreement
We learn the value of things more in their loss than in their enjoyment.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Enjoyment
What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness