Latin Proverb Quotations

Three things must epigrams, like bees have all - A sting and honey and a body small

We are the authors of our own disasters

Since you can't copy our pleasures, you begrudge them.

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule

He who cannot do what he wishes, shoudl do as he can.

He dies twice who perishes by his own hand

He dies before he is old who is wise before his day

There is no departing from the words of the law

What is done for another is done for oneself

He is unworthy of life who gives no life to another

It is better to say nothing than not enough

It is easier to pull down than to build up

Those who do a thing are consenting parties

When anything is forbidden, everything which leads to the same result is also forbidden

You can never consider that as your own which can be changed

What one knows it is sometimes useful to forget

The privacy of public office, the publicity of private life

Beware of men who flourish with hereditary honors

Dum spiro, spero (Latin), "While I breath, I hope

Opportunity has hair in front; behind she is bald; if you seize her by the forelock, you may hold her, but, if suffered to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch her again

After intercourse every animal is sad, except the rooster and the human female

A man devoid of religion is like a horse without a bridle

A mass of men equals a mass of opinions

A bad father has never a good son

It is to their crimes that most great men are indebted for their gardens, their tables, their fine old plate - their love

It is the heart which makes people eloquent

It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is himself deserving of praise

It's an ill plan that cannot be changed

Do not lengthen the quarrel while there is an opportunity of escaping

It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it yourself

The first step toward a cure is to know what the disease is

All the hours wound you, the last one kills