Respect is greater from a distance.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Proverbs
He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Action
We all envy other people’s luck.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Opportunities, Reality
What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
Every madman thinks all other men mad.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Sanity, Madness, Proverbs
Glory is the shadow of virtue.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Proverbs, Glory
A good beginning ensures a good ending.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Beginning
Nothing bears a stronger resemblance to a madman than a man when drunk.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Drunkenness
If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Friendship
Rare is agreement between beauty and modesty.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Agreement
Danger can never by overcome without taking risks.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Danger, Risk
My inclination first leads me in one direction, then in the opposite.
—Latin Proverb
Of no worldly good can the joy be perfect, unless it is shared by a friend.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Joy, Sharing
To win a war quickly takes long preparation.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Preparation
Nature is our mother.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Nature
Let him who exhorts others to give, give himself.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Giving
No matter her past, when a chambermaid marries a lord she becomes a lady.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Class, Past
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: Opportunity, Opportunities
We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit.
—Latin Proverb
It is easy to be generous with other people’s money.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Wealth, Money
No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already have.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Economy, Profit, Wealth
Nothing that is natural is disgraceful.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Nature
Bad beginnings lead to bad results.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Beginning
Deliberate often – decide once.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Thinking
Hidden valor is as bad as cowardice.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Courage
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
Ignorance is not privileged by titular degrees
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Ignorance, Proverbs
Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Rightness, Right
He makes his home where the living is best.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Home
Believe that you have it, and you have it.
—Latin Proverb
Topics: Beliefs
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