Latin proverbs

thumb|Hear, see, be silent, if you wish to live (in peace). This is a list of Latin proverbs and sayings. __NOTOC__ Alphabetized by first word of proverb A · B · C · D · E · F · G · H · I · J · K · L · M · N · O · P · Q · R · S · T · U · V · W · X · Y · Z · See also · References · External links A A diabolo, qui est simia dei. Translation: "From the devil, who is a monkey god." English equivalent: Where god has a church the devil will have his chapel. "Wherever God erects a house of prayer,The Devil always builds a chapel there:And 'twill be found, upon examination,The latter has the largest congregation." "where there's good there's also Evil" Daniel Defoe, The True-Born Englishman (1701) Source for proverb: Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 874 2200 0415096243 Abbati, medico, patronoque intima pande. Hide nothing from thy minister, physician and lawyer. Strauss Emanuel Dictionary of European Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=z-3FyaMKtfUC&pg=PA666 II 1994 978-0-415-10381-7 666–667 768 Quidquid praecipies esto brevis. "Whatever advice you give, be short." Horace, Ars Poetica (18 BC), CCCXXXV. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 10-11. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 695 2200 0415096243 Acquirit qui tuetur. English equivalent: Sparing is the first gaining. Burke 2009 The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time Heritage Books 710 0788437208 Acta non verba. "Deeds, not words" Fuschetto 2003 Kings Point: Acta Non Verba Diversified Graphics, Incorporated Ancipiti plus ferit ense gula. "Gluttony kills more than the sword." Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 864 2200 0415096243 Aegrescit medendo. English equivalent: The remedy is often worse than the disease. Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA232 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 232 Cantera Ortiz de Urbina Jesús 2005 Refranero Latino http://books.google.com/books?id=xll5lkkwNI0C&pg=PA306 16 November 2005 Ediciones AKAL 978-84-460-1296-2 306 Aegroto dum anima est, spes est. English equivalent: As long as there is life there is hope. Erasmus, Mynors 1991 Collected Works of Erasmus: Adages II I 1 to II VI 100 University of Toronto Press 467 0802059546 Aeque pars ligni curvi ac recti valet igni. English equivalent: Crooked logs make straight fires. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 683 2200 0415096243 Age quod agis. Do what you do, in the sense of "Do well what you do", "Do well in whatever you do" or "Be serious in what you do" 1884 The Nation Nation Company 425 Aliis si licet, tibi non licet. Translation: If others are allowed to, that does not mean you are. (see also quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi) Patrick 1810 Terence's Comedies Gilbert and Hodges 345 An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur? (alternatively: regatur orbis) Translation: Don't you know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed? Axel Oxenstierna (1583 – 1654), 1648 letter to son, who was involved in negotiating the Peace of WestphaliaClassical and foreign quotations, William Francis Henry King, 1889, p. 40, quote #300 Sometimes attributed to Cardinal Richelieu. Variant form due to John Selden Aliquando dormitat Homerus. English equivalent: Even Homer sometimes nods. Strauss Emanuel Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=RzctBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA58 1994 978-1-136-78971-7 57–58 208 Aliquis in omnibus est nullus in singulis. Translation: Someone in all, is nothing in one. English equivalent: Jack of all trades, master of none; Jack of all trades begs bread on Sundays. "Somebody who has a very wide range of abilities or skills usually does not excel at any of them." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA156 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 156 Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 70 504 0415160502 Arcem ex cloacâ facĕre. English equivalent: Don't make a mountain out of a molehill. Proverbs of All Nations http://books.google.com/books?id=PdxtAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA109 1859 W. Kent & Company (late D. Bogue) 58 Aries cornibus Iasciviens. English equivalent: Better fed than taught. "'Tis better for thee to be wise and not seem so, than to seem wise and not be so: Yet Men, for the most Part, desire and endeavor the contrary." Thomas Fuller, Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727) Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 16 Atqui, ex lotio est. Translation: Yet it comes from urine. Emperor Vespasian to his son Titus, when the latter, complaining about the former's urine tax, acknowledged a coin collected had no odor. Suetonius Tranquillus Gaius Suetonius "Divus Vespasianus" 121 CE http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Vespasian*.html#23.3 De vita Caesarum 9 December 2003 University of Chicago 2006-09-09 section 23.3, page 317 "The Life of Vespasian" http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Vespasian*.html#23.3 The Lives of the Twelve Caesars Suetonius 9 December 2003 University of Chicago 2006-09-09 Auctoritas non veritas facit legem Translation: Authority, not truth, makes law. Thomas Hobbes, "Leviathan" II, 26 Audaces fortuna iuvat. Translation: Fortune favors the brave.(Virgil, Aeneid 10, 284) English equivalent: Fortune favours the bold. "Those who act boldly or courageously are most likely to succeed." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA94 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 94 Audentes fortuna juvat. Translation: Fortune favors the bold. (Motto of the 80th Fighter Squadron, of the US Air Force, and of the USS Florida) Audi, vide, tace, si tu vis vivere (in pace). Translation: Hear, see, be silent, if you wish to live (in peace). English equivalent: Those who wish to live in peace, must hear, see, and say nothing. Bailey Nathan An Universal Etymological English Dictionary, etc https://www.google.com/books/edition/An_Universal_Etymological_English_Dictio/uqGiqamg9vMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=peaceable Aut inveniam viam aut faciam. Alternate phrasing: Aut viam inveniam aut faciam Translation: I'll either find a way or make one. English equivalent: Where there's a will, there's a way. "If you are sufficiently determined to achieve something, then you will find a way of doing so." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA113 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 299 Stone, J. R. (2005). The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs and Sayings, Routledge. p. 351 Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant. Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you. Gladiators saluting the Roman Emperor. Suetonius Claudius 21 B Bellum se ipsum alet. War will feed on itself. Roberts 2003 The Age of Liberty: Sweden 1719-1772 Cambridge University Press 19 Bene diagnoscitur, bene curatur. English equivalent: A disease known is half cured. Meyer, Ndura-Ouédraogo 2009 Seeds of new hope: pan-African peace studies for the 21st century Africa World Press 331 1592216625 Bis dat qui cito dat. English equivalent: He gives twice, who gives in a trice. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 38 Brevis oratio penetrat coelos; Longa potatio evacuat scyphos. English equivalent: Short prayers reach heaven. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 75 C Canus honoretur, puer ad documenta citetur. English equivalent: Gray hairs are honorable. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 35 Carpe diem. Translation: "Seize the day." By Horace, Odes I,11,8, to Leuconoe: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero ("take hold of the day, believing as little as possible in the next"). The verb "carpere" has the literal meaning "to pick, pluck," particularly in reference to the picking of fruits and flowers, and was used figuratively by the Roman poets to mean "to enjoy, use, make use of." Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 765 2200 0415096243 Carthago delenda est. Translation: "Carthage is to be destroyed." Actually, ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam ("Apart from that, I conclude that Carthage must be destroyed") Cato the Elder used to end every speech of his to the Senate, on any subject whatsoever, with this phrase. Mentioned to indicate that someone habitually harps on one subject. Cave ab homine unius libri. English translation: Fear the man of one book. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 851 2200 0415096243 Citius venit malum quam revertitur. English equivalent: Misfortune comes on horseback and goes away on foot. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 65 2200 0415096243 Cito maturum cito putridum. English equivalent: Early ripe, early rotten. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 758 2200 0415096243 Cogitationes posteriores sunt saniores. English equivalent: Second thoughts are best; We shall lose nothing by waiting. Source for proverb: Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 747 2200 0415096243 Consilio, quod respuitur, nullum subest auxilium. English equivalent: He that will not be counseled cannot be helped. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 964 2200 0415096243 Consuetudinis magna vis est English equivalent: Old habits die hard. Cicero, Tusculanae Quaestiones, II.37 Consuetudo altera natura est English equivalent: Old habits die hard. Breen 2010 Imagining an English Reading Public, 1150-1400 Cambridge University Press 46 0521199220 Contritium praecedit superbia. English equivalent: Pride comes before fall. Strauss Emmanuel 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs, Volym 1 Routledge 1148 0415096243 Cor boni concilii statue tecum non est enim tibi aliud pluris illo. English equivalent: Though thou hast ever so many counsellors, yet do not forsake the counsel of thy own soul. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1044 2200 0415096243 Corruptio optimi pessima Translation: The corruption of the best is the worst of all. Farquhar Shaw John A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek, Latin and Modern Languages, translated into English and occasionally accompanied with illustrations, historical, poetical, and anecdotical. By the author of "Live and Learn" ... With an extensive index, referring to every important word https://books.google.com/books?id=Sx1kAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA89 1858 89 Corruptio optimi pessima Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges Translation: The greater the degeneration of the republic, the more of its laws. (Tacitus) Annals (117) "Credula est spes improba. English equivalent: He that lives on hope dances without music. "Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords." Samuel Johnson, letter of 8 June 1762, in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol. 1, p. 103 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 952 2200 0415096243 Crede quod habes, et habes. English equivalent: Fake it till you make it. Hugh Moore A dictionary of quotations from various authors in ancient and modern languages http://books.google.com/books?id=2wb-dMzaXw8C&pg=PA61 14 August 2013 1831 61 Cui caput dolet, omnia membra languent. English equivalent: When the head is sick, the whole body is sick. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1117 2200 0415096243 Cuilibet fatuo placet sua calva. English equivalentː Every fool is pleased with his own folly. Strauss Emanuel Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=86yPOGG3YfcC&pg=PT411 I 1994 Routledge 978-1-134-86460-7 139 147 Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare. — Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one. English equivalent: He wrongfully blames the sea who suffers shipwreck twice. Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippica XII, ii, 5 Curae canitiem inducunt. English equivalent: Fretting cares make grey hairs. Source for proverb: Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 631 2200 0415096243 Custode et cura natura potentior omni. English equivalent: Nature is beyond all teaching. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 764 2200 0415096243 D De gustibus non est disputandum. Translation: There is no disputing about tastes. English equivalent: There is no accounting for taste. Alternative form: De gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum. Translation: "There's no arguing about tastes and colors." 1759 De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum: Dramma Giocoso Per Musica Da Rappresentarsi In Monaco Di Baviera Vötter H. Z Riley Dictionary of Latin Quotations Proverbs Maximus and Mottos, Classical and Medieval, Including Law Terms and Phrases http://books.google.com/books?id=B3y1enBOD9kC&pg=PA73 1866 Bell & Daldy 73 De mortuis nil nisi bonum [dicendum est]. Literal translation: Concerning the dead, nothing should be said unless it is good. English equivalent: Speak well of the dead. Traversari, Ambrogio (1432). Benedictus Brognolus (ed.). Laertii Diogenis vitae et sententiae eorvm qvi in philosophia probati fvervnt (in Latin). Venice: Impressum Venetiis per Nicolaum Ienson gallicum. Retrieved 12 May 2013. Deus quem punire vult dementat. Literal translation: He whom God wants to punish, he drives mad. English equivalent: Whom God will destroy, he first make mad. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 841 2200 0415096243 Diem vesper commendat. Literal translation: The evening commends the day." Translation: Celebrate the day when it is evening. Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 200 0415160502 Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem. Literal translation: It is difficult to suddenly lay aside a long-standing love. English equivalent: True love never grows old. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1107 2200 0415096243 Dii facientes adiuvant. Translation: Gods help those who do. English equivalent: God helps them that help themselves. "When in trouble first of all every one himself should do his best to improve his condition." Paczolay Gyula 1997 European Proverbs in 55 languages DeProverbio.com 150 527 1-875943-44-7 Cantera Ortiz de Urbina Jesús Refranero latino http://books.google.com/books?id=xll5lkkwNI0C&pg=PA83 16 November 2005 Ediciones Akal 978-84-460-1296-2 83 975 Dives aut iniquus est, aut iniqui heres. Literal translation: The rich man either cold-hearted, or heir to the cold-hearted. English equivalent: No one gets rich quickly if he is honest. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 963 2200 0415096243 Dives est qui sibi nihil deesse putat. Translation: Rich is he who thinks he lacks nothing. English equivalent: Wealth rarely brings happiness. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 670 2200 0415096243 Divide et impera. Translation: Divide and rule [or conquer]. Attributed to Julius Caesar. English equivalent: Divide and conquer. "The best way to conquer or control a group of people is by encouraging them to fight among themselves rather than allowing them to unite in opposition to the ruling authority." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA57 13 August 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 57 Strauss Emanuel Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=sm96Wlt8Ql0C&pg=PT565 1994 Routledge 978-1-136-78978-6 823 Docendo discimus. Translation: By teaching, we learn. (Seneca) Vahros 1986 Docendo discimus University Press Duabus ancoris fultus. Literal translation: Propped up by two anchors. English equivalent: Good riding at two anchors, men have told, for if the one fails, the other may hold. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 879 2200 0415096243 Ductus Exemplo Translation: Lead by Example. Gray 2009 Embedded: a Marine Corps adviser inside the Iraqi army Naval Institute Press 74 1591143403 Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Translation: It is sweet and honorable to die for the motherland. By Horace, Odes III, 2, 13, frequently quoted on war memorials, and notably in the poem Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen, who calls it "the old lie". Dulce pomum quum abest custos. Translation: Sweet is the apple when the keeper is away. English equivalent: Forbidden fruit is sweetest. "Things that you must not have or do are always the most desirable." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA93 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 93 János Erdélyi Magyar közmondások könlyve http://books.google.com/books?id=uqwOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA169 1851 Nyomatott Kozma Vazulnál 169 Kelly Walter Keating W. Kent & co. (late D. Bogue) Proverbs of all nations 1859 93 238 Dulcior illa sapit caro, quae magis ossibus haeret. Literal translation "That flesh tastes sweeter, which clings more to the bones." English equivalent: The sweetest flesh is near the bones. Strauss Emanuel 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge II 1666 1176 2200 0415096243 Dum canem caedimus, corrosisse dicitur corrium. Translation: If you want to beat a dog you will easily find a stick. Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 104 0415160502 Dum lusus bonus est, ipsum dimittere fas est. English equivalent: Leave a jest when it pleases you best. von Düringsfield Ida von Düringsfield Otto Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend https://books.google.se/books?id=zQYJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA59&dq=Un+poc+d%27zug+%C3%A8+po+b%C3%A8ll&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj12tXl2qT1AhWtR_EDHfCLAzgQ6AF6BAgDEAM#v=onepage&q=Un%20poc%20d'zug%20%C3%A8%20po%20b%C3%A8ll&f=false 1875 German I 59-60 122, aufhören Dum satur est venter, gaudet caput inde libenter. Translation: When the belly is full, the head is pleased. English equivalent: Full stomach, contented heart. Cantera Ortiz de Urbina Jesús Refranero latino http://books.google.com/books?id=xll5lkkwNI0C&pg=PA69 16 November 2005 Ediciones Akal 978-84-460-1296-2 68 768 Dum spiro, spero. Attested in Hans Kotter, Hie jnnen findt man geschriben stan ... (Strasbourg: Johann Knobloch, 1523), fol. 8v: "Dum spiro spero." Digitized copy, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Yg 7841; VD16 ZV 9180. Translation: "As long as I breathe, I hope." Translated as "While I breathe, I hope" the motto of the State of South Carolina [] Gunter 2000 Dum Spiro, Spero: While I Breathe, I Hope In His Steps Publishing 180 1585350192 English equivalent: As long as there is life there is hope. Dum vivimus, vivamus! Translation: While we live, let us live! Organization) 1972 Dum Vivimus, Vivamus: A Chronicle of the First Century of the Knights of Momus, 1872-1972 Dum vita est, spes est. Translation: While there is life, there is hope. Bretzke 1998 Consecrated Phrases: A Latin Theological Dictionary : Latin Expressions Commonly Found in Theological Writings Liturgical Press 41 1 E Ecce omnis, qui dicit vulgo proverbium, in te assumet illud dicens: Sicut mater, ita et filia ejus. English equivalent: Like mother, like daughter. "Daughters may look and behave like their mothers. This is due to inheritance and the example observed closely and daily." Paczolay Gyula 1997 European Proverbs in 55 languages DeProverbio.com 137 527 1-875943-44-7 Effectus sequitur causam. Literal translation: Effect follows cause. English equivalent: Every why has a wherefore. "Everything has an underlying reason." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA80 22 September 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 80 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 765 2200 0415096243 Eodem cubito, eadem trutina, pari libra. English equivalent: Whatever measure you deal out to others will be dealt back to you. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1219 2200 0415096243 Errare humanum est. English meaningː To err is human. Green Tamara M. The Greek & Latin roots of English https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Greek_Latin_Roots_of_English/x_k-vjNulXAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA215 2003 215 Ex granis fit acervus. English equivalent: Every little helps. "All contributions, however small, are of use." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA78 20 September 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 77 Source for proverbs: Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 26 Et ipsa scientia potestas est. Translation: "And knowledge itself, is power" (Francis Bacon, Meditationes sacrae) Djité 2008 The Sociolinguistics of Development in Africa Multilingual Matters 53 1847690459 Ex malis moribus bonae leges natae sunt. Literal translation: From bad customs, good laws are born. English equivalent: Good laws have sprung from bad customs. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 879 2200 0415096243 Ex nihilo nihil fit. Translation: "Nothing comes from nothing" (you need to work for something; also the Conservation Law in philosophy and modern science) (Lucretius). This is also a famous Shakespeare quote in King Lear. "If you would have any thing done for you, you must give something, for people will not serve you for nothing." James Kelly A Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs Explained and Made Intelligible to the English Reader http://books.google.com/books?id=tsBCAAAAcAAJ&pg=GBS.PA13 1818 Rodwell and Martin 13 Campbell, O'Rourke, Silverstein 2007 Causation and Explanation Mit Press 291 0262033631 Exceptio probat regulam in casibus non exceptis. Translation: "The exception confirms the rule in cases not excepted" (Cicero, Pro Balbo) Meaning: If an exception to a rule is explicitly stated (such as a "no right turns on red light" sign at an intersection), that allows one to conclude the general rule to which this is an exception (i.e. "right turns are permitted on red lights unless a sign says otherwise"). English equivalent: "The exception proves the rule" (though this is often used in other senses). Excusatio non petita, accusatio manifesta. Literal translation: Unasked for excuse, obvious accusation. English equivalent: A guilty conscience needs no accuser. Meaning: "People who know they have done wrong reveal their guilt by the things they say or the way they interpret what other people say." Source for meaning of English equivalent: Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA112 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 112 Strauss Emanuel Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=sm96Wlt8Ql0C&pg=PT565 1994 Routledge 978-1-136-78978-6 227 243 Extremis malis extrema remedia. Literal translation: Extreme cures for extreme evils. English equivalent: Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies. Meaning: "Drastic action is called for – and justified – when you find yourself in a particularly difficult situation." Source for meaning: Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA53 10 August 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 53 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 688 2200 0415096243 Expecta bos olim herba. Latin translation: Cow, wait for grass soon!" English equivalent: While the grass grows the steed starves. Meaning: Dreams or expectations may be realized too late. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1228 2200 0415096243 F Facilis descensus Averni. Literal translation: The easy descent of the underworld. The descent into hell is easy. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 39 Factis ut credam facis. Literal translation: By your deeds I may trust you do." English equivalent: No need of words, trust deeds. "Actions may be, and indeed sometimes are deceptive in a measure though not as much so as words; and accordingly are received in general as more full and satisfactory proofs of the real disposition and character of persons than verbal expressions." Source for meaning:Porter William Henry Proverbs: Arranged in Alphabetical Order ... http://books.google.com/books?id=KA4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA10 1845 Munroe and Company 10 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 91 2200 0415096243 Festina lente! Literal translation: Hurry slowly! English equivalent: Make haste slowly. English meaning: proceed quickly but with caution, a motto of Marcus Aurelius Rochester Institute of Technology 1980 Festina lente Fides facit fidem. English equivalent: Confidence begets confidence. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 187 2200 0415096243 Fidite Nemini Translation: Trust no one. 1737 Conciones Adventuales: De De Captivitate Petri, Figurante Captivitatem Peccatoris Verdussen 113 Finis origine pendet. Translation: The end depends on the beginning. English equivalent: Such a beginning, such an end. Forma bonum fragile est.Ovid, Ars Amatoria, line 113. Literal translation: Beauty is a fragile advantage. English equivalent: All that is fair must fade. English meaning: Nothing lasts forever. Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA80 21 September 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 80 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 10 Fortes fortuna iuvat Translation: Fortune favors the brave. (cf. Audaces fortuna iuvat.) (Terence) Marchesi 2008 The Art of Pliny's Letters: A Poetics of Allusion in the Private Correspondence Cambridge University Press 176 0521882273 Fraus hominum ad perniciem, et integritas ad salutem vocat. Literal translation: Men's deceit brings ruin, and integrity brings security. English equivalent: Honesty is the best policy. "Being honest or telling the truth is always the wisest course of action." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA128 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 128 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf X Fronti nulla fides. Literal translation: No trust in appearances. English equivalent: Appearances deceive. Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 124 0415160502 G Generosus equus non curat canem latrantem. Literal translation: A well-bred horse does not care for a barking dog. Gloriosum est iniurias oblivisci. Literal translation: It is a glorious thing to forget injuries. English equivalent: Forgive and forget. Rauschen, Geyer, Albers, Zellinger 1933 Florilegium patristicum P. Hanstein 58 Gutta cavat lapidem A drop hollows out the stone. (Ovid, Epistles) Gutta cavat lapidem non bis, sed saepe cadendo; sic homo fit sapiens non bis, sed saepe legendo. A drop hollows out the stone by falling not twice, but many times; so too is a person made wise by reading not twice, but many times. Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed saepe cadendo A drop hollows out the stone not by force, but falling many times. (original latin proverb). H Historia est vitae magistra. Translation: "History is the teacher of life." Hodie mihi, cras tibi. Translation: "What's to me today, tomorrow is to you." English equivalent: The door swings both ways; What goes around comes around. Ferler, J. (1723). Hodie Mihi, Cras Tibi, Gruber. Homines quod volunt credunt. Translation: "Men believe what they want to." (Julius Caesar) Lautenbach, E. (2002). Latein-Deutsch: Zitaten-Lexikon: Quellennachweise, Lit. Homo cogitat, Deus iudicat. Literal Translation: Man thinks, God judges. Meaning: Things often don't turn out as you have planned. Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 103 0415160502 Honor sequitur fugientem. Literal translation: Honour follows the fleeing man. English equivalent: Follow glory and it will flee, flee glory and it will follow thee. "For peace do not hope—to be just you must break itStill work for the minute and not for the year;When honor comes to you, be ready to take it; But reach not to seize it before it is near." John Boyle O Reilly, Legends and Ballads, "Rules Of The Road" (1878) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 832 2200 0415096243 Hortamur fari, quo sanguine cretus.Vergil, Aeniad, II.64 Literal translation: We encourage [him] to say, from what blood he was sprung. English equivalent: Good blood always shows itself. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 34 Hostium munera, non munera. Translation: Gifts of enemies are no gifts. Note: "This advice has its root in the story of the Trojan Horse, the treacherous subterfuge by which the Greeks finally overcame their trojan adversaries at the end of the Trojan War." English equivalent: Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. "Do not trust gifts or favors if they come from an enemy." Martin H. Manser David H. Pickering The Facts On File Dictionary of Classical and Biblical Allusions http://books.google.com/books?id=LIcL56NQ3gsC&pg=PA46 1 July 2013 2003 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-4868-7 46 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 855 2200 0415096243 I Note: I and J are the same letter in Latin. Ignavum fortuna repugnat. Fortune disdains the lazy. "Don't yield to that alluring witch, laziness, or else be prepared to surrender all that you have won in your better moments." Horace, Satires Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 601 2200 0415096243 Ignorantia legis non excusat Translation: Ignorance of the law does not excuse. Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 287 0415160502 Imperare sibi maximum imperium est. Translation: To rule yourself is the ultimate power. (Seneca) Strauss Emmanuel 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs, Volym 1 Routledge 915 0415096243 Improbe Neptunum accusat, qui iterum naufragium facit. Literal translation: He who causes a shipwreck twice shamelessly blames Neptune. English equivalent: He complains wrongfully at the sea that suffer shipwreck twice. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 898 2200 0415096243 Incus robusta malleum non temnit. Literal translation: The strong anvil does not despise the hammer. English equivalent: A good anvil does not fear the hammer. von Düringsfeld Ida Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen https://books.google.com/books?id=S5dYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA37 1872 37 83 Amboss In dubio, abstine. Translation: When in doubt, abstain. English equivalent: When in doubt, leave it out; When in doubt, do nothing. "If you are unsure what to do, it is best to do nothing at all." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA123 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 296 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1223 2200 0415096243 In dubio pro reo. Translation: "When in doubt, in favour of the accused". (Corpus Juris Civilis) Stree, W. (1962). In dubio pro reo, Mohr. In iudicando criminosa est celeritas.Pubililus Syrus, Sententiae, line 294 Literal translation: In judgement, speed is slanderous. Translation: Hasty judgments are criminal. In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas Translation: "In necessary things unity, in doubtful things liberty, in all things charity" (often misattributed to St Augustine). Bretzke, J. T. (1998). Consecrated Phrases: A Latin Theological Dictionary : Latin Expressions Commonly Found in Theological Writings, Liturgical Press. In nullum avarus bonus est, in se pessimus. Literal translation: The bitter man is good to no one, [but] the worst to himself. English equivalent: The covetous man is good to none and worst to himself. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 83 2200 0415096243 In propria causa nemo debet esse iudex. Translation: No one should be the judge in his own trial. English equivalent: No one can be the judge in his own case. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1038 2200 0415096243 In risu agnoscitur fatuus. Literal translation: The fool is recognised in laughter. English equivalent: A fool is ever laughing. Emanuel Strauss Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=sm96Wlt8Ql0C&pg=PT102 1994 Routledge 978-1-136-78978-6 102 137 In vino veritas. Translation: There is truth in vine. English equivalent: In wine there is truth. "Alcohol consumed removes the inhibition against telling the truth that occasionally one would like to keep secret." Source for meaning and proverbs: Paczolay Gyula 1997 European Proverbs in 55 languages DeProverbio.com 272 527 1-875943-44-7 Inimicum quamvis humilem docti est metuere. Literal translation: It is the mark of a learned man to fear his enemy although humble. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 718 2200 0415096243 Literal translation: The wise man must fear a humble enemy. Innumeras curas secum adferunt liberi. Translation: Children bring with them countless troubles. English equivalent: Children are uncertain comforts but certain cares. "Children are bound to cause their parents anxiety, and may or may not also bring them joy." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA40 2 August 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 40 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 654 2200 0415096243 Intemperans adulescentia effetum corpus tradit senectuti. Literal translation: The intemperate youth hands over his worn-out body to old age. English equivalent: They who would be young when they are old must be old when they are young. Strauss Emanuel 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge II 1605 1151 2200 0415096243 Inter gladium et iugulum. Literal translation: Between sword and neck. [note that iugulum, referring anatomically to the collarbone and the area above it, can also be used figuratively to refer to the crux of an argument] English equivalent: Don't go between the tree and the bark. Meaning: Do not interfere when two parts are having an argument. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 729 2200 0415096243 Interdum stultus bene loquitur.' Literal translation: Occasionally a fool speaks well. English equivalent: "A fool may give a wise man counsel." Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 40 504 0415160502 Invidus alterius macrescit rebus opimis . Literal translation: Envy wastes away on the fatness of another. English equivalent: Envy is its own torturer. von Düringsfeld Ida von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld Otto Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend https://books.google.com/books?id=AAcJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA93 1875 93 168 Ira furor brevis est. Translation: "Anger is brief insanity" (Horace, epistles I, 2, 62). Stone, J. R. (2005). The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs and Sayings, Routledge. Longum iter est per praecepta , breve et efficax per exempla. Literal translation: Long is the road by teaching, short [is the road] by example. English equivalent: Example is better than precept. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 28 Iucundum est narrare sua mala. Literal translation: It's pleasant to recount your troubles. English equivalent: A problem shared is a problem halved. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 351 2200 0415096243 K The letter "k" was not commonly used in Classical Latin. L Latet anguis sub herbis in herba. Literal translation: "A snake keeps out of sight under weeds in the grass." English equivalent: "Look before you leap, for snakes among sweet flowers do creep." von Düringsfield Ida von Düringsfield Otto Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend https://books.google.se/books?id=dJdYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA177&dq=Ne%27+fiori+cova+la+serpe.+sprichw%C3%B6rter&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiij5-pqu31AhUoQvEDHWZlAWsQ6AF6BAgCEAI#v=onepage&q=Ne'%20fiori%20cova%20la%20serpe.%20sprichw%C3%B6rter&f=false 1875 German ÏI 177-178 315, Schlange Latet enim veritas, sed nihil pretiosius veritate. Translation: "Truth indeed is hidden, but nothing is more precious than the truth." "As to the quantity of absolute truth in a thought: it seems to me the more comprehensive and unobjectionable a thought becomes, the more clumsy and unexciting it gets. I like half-truths of a certain kind — they are interesting and they stimulate." Eric Hoffer (1950). Entry. Francisco Sanchez de las Brozas (1754). Minerva, sive de causis latinae linguae commentarius I, 1, 40, 16. Lumen soli mutuum das. Translation: "You lend light to the sun." Note: Said of persons who affect to explain what is perfectly clear and intelligible. Source of proverb & meaning: H. T. Riley (1866). Dictionary of Latin Quotations, Proverbs, Maxims, and Mottos, &c. p. 210. M Macte animo! Generose puer sic itur ad astra! Literal translation: "Glorified in soul! The boy by excellence is carried on to the stars!" Translation: "Be strong, young man! Through this way one gets to the stars." (Motto of the Brazilian Air Force Academy) Chateaubriand, F. R. and A. T. de Mattos (1902). The memoirs of François René, vicomte de Chateaubriand, sometime ambassador to England: being a translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos of the Mémoires d'outre-tombe, with illustrations from contemporary sources, Freemantle and co. Mala herba cito crescit Translation: "Weeds grow fast." Bezemer, K. (2005). Pierre de Belleperche: Portrait of a Legal Puritan, Klostermann. Mala hostibus eveniant. Literal translation: Bad things may befall our enemies. Mali principii malus finis. Translation: "Bad beginnings lead to a bad end." English equivalent: A bad beginning makes a bad ending. "It is as impossible that a system radically erroneous, once commenced, should end well, as it is that a mathematical problem, commenced wrong, should come out right." Source for meaning: William Henry Porter Proverbs: Arranged in Alphabetical Order ... http://books.google.com/books?id=KA4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA202 1845 Munroe and Company 202 Latin proverbs and quotations: With translations and parallel passages and a copious English index http://books.google.com/books?id=sso3AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA214 1869 S. Low, son, and Marston 214 Malo arboris nodo malus clavus and cuneus infigendus est. English equivalent: What goes around comes around. Lautenbach Ernst 2002 Latein-Deutsch: Zitaten-Lexikon: Quellennachweise LIT Verlag Münster 646 3825856526 Malum consilium quod mutari non potest. Literal translation: It is bad advice because it cannot be changed. Malo nodo malus quaerendus cuneus. A bad wedge is to be preferred to a bad knot. English equivalent: Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies. "Drastic action is called for – and justified – when you find yourself in a particularly difficult situation." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA53 10 August 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 53 Emanuel Strauss Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=sm96Wlt8Ql0C&pg=PT552 10 August 2013 1994 Routledge 978-1-136-78978-6 552 812 Malum quidem nullum esse sine aliquo bono. Literal translation: There is, in fact, no evil without some good." Translation: "There is, to be sure, no evil without something good." Watasin, E. The Dark Victorian: Risen, A-Girl Studio. English equivalent: Every cloud has its silver lining. Manus manum lavat. Literal translation: "Hand washes hand." Translation: "One hand washes the other." Houdt, T. (2002). Self-Presentation and Social Identification: The Rhetoric and Pragmatics of Letter Writing in Early Modern TImes, Leuven University Press. Mater artium necessitas. Literal translation: The mother of craft is necessity. Translation: "Necessity is the mother of invention" (Apuleius) Strauss Emmanuel 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs, Volym 1 Routledge 989 0415096243 Maxima debetur puero reverentia Translation: "One owes the greatest possible care for the child" (Juvenal) Tegnér, E. and L. F. C. W. Böttiger (1849). Esaias Tegnérs samlade skrifter. Medicus curat, natura sanat Translation: "The doctor cares [for his patient], nature heals [him]." or "Doctor cures, nature saves." Strauss Emmanuel 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs, Volym 1 Routledge 869 0415096243 Melium est nomen bonum quam divitae multae. Literal translation: A good name is better than great riches. English equivalent: A good name is the best of all treasures. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 33 504 0415160502 Memento mori. Translation: Remember that you are going to die. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1151 2200 0415096243 Mendacem memorem esse oportet. English equivalent: A liar should have a good memory. "Liars must remember the untruths they have told, to avoid contradicting themselves at some later date." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA167 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 167 Strauss Emanuel Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=86yPOGG3YfcC&pg=PT736 24 November 2013 I 1994 Routledge 978-1-134-86460-7 257 274 Mens regnum bona possidet.Seneca the Younger, Thyestes, line 380 Literal translation: Good judgement holds the kingdom. Merx ultronea putet. Translation and English equivalent: Proffered service stinks. Proverbs, Chiefly Taken from the Adagia of Erasmus with Explanations: And Further Illustrated by Corresponding Examples from the Spanish, Italian, French & English Languages http://books.google.com/books?id=5EEAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA201 1814 T. Egerton 201 Misera fortuna, qui caret inimico. Literal translation: Unhappy fortune, who lacks an enemy. English equivalent: If you have no enemies it is a sign that fortune has forgotten you; People throw stones only at trees with fruit on them. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1008 2200 0415096243 Mobiles ad superstitionem perculsae semel mentes Literal translation: Minds once beaten down are bent to superstition. Translation: "Minds once cowed are prone to superstition." Tacitus, "Agricola", 1.28 Mulgere hircum. Literal translation: To milk a buck. English equivalent: You can't milk a bull. von Duringsfeld Ida Freihern von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld Otto Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen vergleichend zusammengestellt von Ida von Duringsfeld und Otto Freihern von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld https://books.google.com/books?id=Xc9u8vj9CXsC&pg=PA56 II 1875 German 56 92 Mulier est hominis confusio. Translation: "Woman is man's ruin." "Part of a comic definition of woman" from the Altercatio Hadriani Augusti et Secundi.Larry D. Benson, ed. The Riverside Chaucer. 3rd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. p. 939, n. 3164. Famously quoted by Chauntecleer in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales’’. Multum clamoris, parum lanae. Literal tranlation: A lot of noise, little wool. English equivalent: Great cry and little wool. "Much ado about nothing." Keating Walter Proverbs of All Nations http://books.google.com/books?id=PdxtAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA128 1859 W. Kent & Company (late D. Bogue) 128 Strauss Emanuel Dictionary of European Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=86yPOGG3YfcC&pg=PT499 II 1994 Routledge 978-1-134-86460-7 173 178 Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur. Translation: The world desires to be deceived; therefore it is. (Attributed to Petronius) English equivalent: The world wants to be taken in. Thompson, J., C. The University of Arizona. Rhetoric, et al. (2008). "A Kind of Thing that Might Be": Toward a Poetics of New Media, University of Arizona. N Ne eligat is qui donum accipit. Literal translation: He who receives a gift may not choose it. English equivalent: Beggars can’t be choosers. "We must accept with gratitude and without complaint what we are given when we do not have the means or opportunity to provide ourselves with something better." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA19 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 19 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 16 Ne puero gladium. Do not give a child a sword. H. T. Riley Dictionary of Latin Quotations, Proverbs, Maxims, and Mottos, &c. (1866), p. 249. Ne quid expectes amicos, quod tute agere possis. Translation: Do not expect something from friends, since you cannot do it yourself. English equivalent: For what thou canst do thyself, rely not on another. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 600 2200 0415096243 Ne quid nimis Translation: "Nothing too much", moderation in all thing (Terence) "Work and play they're never okay to mix." Jimmy Eat World taken from their song "Work" (2004) Kierkegaard, S. (2008). Sickness Unto Death, Wilder Publications. Sutor, ne ultra crepidam Literal translation: The shoemaker is not above the shoe. English equivalent: A blind man should not judge of colours. "An uneducated man cannot judge of the attainments of the learned." M. W. Carr A Collection of Telugu Proverbs translated, illustrated and explained; together with some Sanscrit Proverbs printed in the Devanâgarî and Telugu Characters: By M. W. Carr. A Supplement to the Collection of Telugu Proverbs: containing additional Proverbs, an Index verborum, and an index to the European Proverbs quoted in illustration http://books.google.com/books?id=oJw-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA141 1868 Christian Knowledge Society's Press 141 Carlyle, T., J. Ruskin, et al. (1982). The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin, Stanford University Press. Nemo regere potest nisi qui et regi. Literal translation: No one can rule unless they can also be ruled. English equivalent: Who has not served cannot command. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 758 2200 0415096243 Nemo iudex in causa sua. Translation: "No one is a judge in his own case". Boczek, B. A. (2005). International Law: A Dictionary, Scarecrow Press. Nescis quid serus vesper vehat. Translation: "You know not what nightfall may bring." H. T. Riley Dictionary of Latin Quotations, Proverbs, Maxims, and Mottos, &c. (1866), p. 261. Nihil ægrius quam disciplinam accipimus. Translation: We receive nothing with so much reluctance as instruction. Note: Specified as a Roman proverb in the source. English equivalent: Advice most needed is the least heeded. Stone 2006 Routledge Dictionary of World Proverbs Taylor \& Francis 8 Nihil est opertum quod non revelabitur, et occultum quod non scietur.'Matthew 10:26' Literal translation: There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. English equivalent: There is nothing hidden that will not become public. Nihil sub sole novum. English equivalentː There's nothing new under the sun. Vulgate, Ecclesiastes 1.10. Green Tamara M. The Greek & Latin roots of English https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Greek_Latin_Roots_of_English/x_k-vjNulXAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA215 2003 215 Nitidae vestes ornatiorem reddunt. Literal translation: Beautiful clothes look more ornate. English equivalent: Fine feathers make fine birds. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 30 In nocte consilium. Literal translation: Counsel is at night English equivalent: Take counsel of one's pillow. Note: Specified as a Latin proverb in the source. Kelly Walter Keating W. Kent & co. (late D. Bogue) Proverbs of all nations 1859 63 238 Nomen est omen. Literal translation: The name is a sign. English equivalent: The name is a sign, the name speaks for itself. Note: This about a person's name. Nominative determinism. Non alios suo modulo metiri. Literal translation: Do not measure others by your own measure. English equivalent: Do not judge others by your own yardstick. :Those who understand evil pardon it." George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903) Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 22 Non capiunt lepores tympana rauca leves. English equivalent: Drumming is not the way to catch a hare. Meaning: Don't expect anyone to change his ways by scolding him. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 754 2200 0415096243 Nocere facile est, prodesse difficile. English translation: It is easy to do harm, difficult to do good. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 718 2200 0415096243 Non nobis solum nati sumus. Translation: "We are not born for ourselves alone." Stone, J. R. (2005). The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs and Sayings, Routledge. Non olet. Translation: "It [money] doesn't smell" (according to Suetonius, Emperor Vespasian was challenged by his son Titus for taxing the public lavatories, the emperor held up a coin before his son and asked whether it smelled) Ferlosio, R. S. (2005). Non olet, Destino. Non opus est follo suspendere tympana collo. Translation: A fool does not need any bells. English equivalent: A tongue of a fool carves a piece of his heart to all that sit near him. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 136 2200 0415096243 Non quia difficilia sunt non audemus, sed quia non audemus, difficilia sunt. Translation: "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, but because we do not dare, things are difficult." (Seneca, Letter to Lucilius, letter 104, section 26, line 5) Gresley, W. (1835). Ecclesiastes Anglicanus: being a treatise on preaching, as adapted to a Church of England congregation : in a series of letters to a young clergyman, printed for J. G. F. & J. Rivington. Non scholae, sed vitae discimus. Translation: "We learn not for school but for life." (Seneca's original quotation is "Non vitae, sed scholae discimus.") "Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living." John Dewey, My Pedagogic Creed (1897) Stone, J. R. (2005). The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs and Sayings, Routledge. Non semper erit aestas. Translation: "It will not always be summer." (be prepared for hard times) Stone, J. R. (2005). The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs and Sayings, Routledge. Nulla poena sine lege Translation: "No punishment without law." Nulla Poena Sine Lege. E.j. Brill, Leiden 1934, Brill Archive. Nulla regula sine exceptione. Translation: "No rule without exception." (1869). Hygiea. Nulli tacuisse nocet, tutum silentii premium. Literal translation: To have remained silent harms no one, safety is the profit of silence. English equivalent: Least said, soonest mended. "In private animosities and verbal contentions, where angry passions are apt to rise, and irritating, if not profane expressions are often made use of, as we sometimes see to be the case, not only among neighbors, but in families, between husbands and wives, or parents and children, or the children themselves and other members of the household, - the least said, the better in general. By multiplying words, cases often grow worse instead of better." Porter William Henry Proverbs: Arranged in Alphabetical Order ... http://books.google.com/books?id=KA4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA125 1845 Munroe and Company 125 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 53 Nullus est dolor quod longinquitas non minuat Dolorem dies longa consumit. Literal translation: There is no pain which time does not diminish. The long day devours pain. von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld Ida von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld Otto Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen https://books.google.com/books?id=iNNmAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA417 II 1875 German 417 736, Zeit Nullus est liber tam mallus, ut non aliqua parte prosit. English equivalent: No book was so bad, but some good might be got out of it. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1104 2200 0415096243 O Oblata arripe. English equivalent: When the pig is proffered, hold up the poke. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1226 2200 0415096243 Occidit miseros crambe repetita magistros. English equivalent: Take heed of enemies reconciled and of meat twice boiled. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 25 504 0415160502 Oculus animi index. Translation: Eyes are the index of the mind. English equivalent: The eye looks but it is the mind that sees. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1175 2200 0415096243 Omnes horas complectere; sic fiet ut minus ex crastino pendeas, si hodierno manum inieceris. Translation: Seize all your hours; thus it will come about that you depend less on tomorrow, if you have laid hands upon today. (Seneca, Letter to Lucilius, letter 1, section 1, line 2) English equivalent: Hold every hour in your grasp. Lay hold of to-day’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow’s. the Younger Seneca 1917 Moral letters to Lucilius https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius 2 Omnia cum pretio. Translation: All things (in rome) have their price. Original "omnia Romae cum pretio" Juvenal Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1111 2200 0415096243 Omnibus se accomodat rebus, omnia novit. Translation: He who applies himself to all things, knows all things. English equivalent: All is fish that comes to net. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 4 Omnium artium medicina nobilissima est. Translation: Medicine is the noblest of all arts. Lautenbach, E. (2002). Latein-Deutsch: Zitaten-Lexikon: Quellennachweise, Lit. Oratores fiunt, poetae nascuntur. English equivalent: Poets are born, but orators are trained. Meaning: Some things can be improved by training, others require innate talent. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 331 504 0415160502 Optimi natatores saepius submerguntur. English equivalent: Good swimmers are often drowned. Hendrik Dominicus Suringar Distichorum proverbialium sententiarum elegantissimus liber auctore Joannis Glandorpio, collatis Germanicis Agricolæ https://books.google.com/books?id=tnhfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA32 1873 Brill 32 176 Optimum medicamentum quies est. Translation: Rest is the best medicine. Arnott, J. (1845). Appendix to an essay on therapeutical inquiry, containing the application of plans of treatment noticed therein to the practice of midwifery. Otia dant vitia. English equivalent: Idle hands are the devils playthings. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 710 2200 0415096243 P Pacta sunt servanda Translation: "Agreements must be honoured." Hasan, A. M. (2005). Pacta sunt servanda: the principle and its application in petroleum production sharing contract, Fikahati Aneska. Par pari refertur. English equivalent: Give and take is fair play. von Düringsfield Ida von Düringsfield Otto Sprichwörter der germanishcen und romanischen Sprachen Vergleichend https://books.google.se/books?id=S5dYAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=sprichw%C3%B6rter+der+germanischen+und+romanischen&hl=sv&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Lige%20for%20Lige&f=false 1875 German I 313-314 6̟03, Gleiches Pars est beneficii quod petitur si cito neges. Translation: A prompt refusal has in part the grace of a favour granted. "Friendship ... flourishes not so much by kindnesses as by sincerity." Étienne de la Boétie, Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, Part 3 Kelly Walter Keating W. Kent & co. (late D. Bogue) Proverbs of all nations 1859 147 238 Pax melior est quam iustissimum bellum. Translation: "Peace is better than the most just war." Clure, A. M. Les HazArts Légendaires, Annie Mc Clure. Pede poena claudo. Translation: "Punishment comes limping." English equivalent: Punishment is lame, but it comes. Valerius, J. D. (1855). Samlade vitterhets-arbeten, Norstedt. Periculum in mora. English equivalent: There is danger in delay. "Hesitation or procastination may lead to trouble or disaster." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA53 10 August 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 53 Emerson Worcester Joseph A Pronouncing, Explanatory, and Synonymous Dictionary of the English Language ... https://books.google.com/books?id=RcMUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA553 1858 553 Philosophum non facit barba. Translation: "A beard doesn't make a philosopher." (Plutarch) '"The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them." Tom Heehler, The Well-Spoken Thesaurus (2011). Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 117 0415160502 Plus ultra Translation: "Further Beyond", Spanish Motto. Piscem vorat maior minorem. Translation: The large fishes eats the small ones. "Small organizations or insignificant people tend to be swallowed up or destroyed by those that are greater and more powerful." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA358 1 July 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 27 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1086 2200 0415096243 Post prandium stabis, post coenam ambulabis. Translation: "After dinner, rest a while, after supper walk a mile." Source: Hugh Moore A Dictionary of Quotations 1831 314 Potius sero quam numquam. Translation: "Better late than never." (Livy) Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 166 0415160502 Praemonitus, praemunitus. Translation: "Forewarned (is) forearmed." Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 563 0415160502 Praesentem mulge, fugientem quid insequeris. Translation: Milk today, for what you are aiming for is fleeing. English equivalent: One today is worth two tomorrows. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1137 2200 0415096243 Praestat cautela quam medela. English equivalent: Prevention is better than cure. Meaning: Precaution is infinitely better than remedial measures. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 881 2200 0415096243 Publica fama non semper vana. Translation: "Provided common, commonly true." English equivalent: Common fame is often to blame. "A general disrepute is often true." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA45 4 August 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 45 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 662 2200 0415096243 Pulverulenta novis bene verritur area scopis. English equivalent: "New brooms sweep clean." Meaning: Newcomers are the most ambitious. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1103 2200 0415096243 Q Qualis pagatio, talis laboratio. Translation: "What pay, such work." English equivalent: "You get what you pay for." Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 494 2200 0415096243 Qualis rex, talis grex. Translation: "Like king, like people." "The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of the ruler." Claudianus, De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augustii Panegyris, CCXCIX. Stone, J. R. (2005). The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs and Sayings, Routledge. Quam bene vivas refert, non quam diu. Translation: "How well you live makes a difference, not how long." (Seneca) Haase, W. and H. Temporini (1983). Aufstieg und Niedergang Der Römischen Welt: Geschichte und Kultur Roms Im Spiegel Der Neueren Forschung, Walter de Gruyter. Quantum satis. Translation: "As much as needed." Rundkvist, A. (1968). Quantum satis: så mycket som är tillräckligt ; aforismer, skaldeord och citat från skilda tider om livet och människan, Rundqvists Bokförlag. Que capit, ille facit English equivalent: "If the shoe fits, wear it." "Every one is for denying, extenuating, or throwing the Blame on others, and never will confess a Fault, and take it upon himself; but this, instead of getting it excused and pardoned aggravates it, and makes it worse, and angers the Party concerned, and so it doth Mischief instead of Good. I advise therefore (unless it be a furious, unforgiving Person, and the Thing be a Crime that must not be owned) frankly to own it, to shew how thou wast brought into it, and wish thou hadst not done it. It's likely this ingenuous dealing and throwing thyself upon his Kindness, may work upon his good Nature, and so the storm may pass off without more Mischief ; but this must be managed artfully in a middle Way between Sneaking and Arrogancy." Thomas Fuller, Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727) = Strauss Emanuel Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs https://books.google.com/books?id=RzctBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA283 II 1994 978-1-136-78971-7 998 1276 Quem di diligunt, adulescens moritur Translation: "Whom the gods love dies young" (Plautus, Bacchides, IV, 7, 18). In the comic play, a sarcastic servant says this to his aging master. The rest of the sentence reads: dum valet, sentit, sapit, "while he is full of health, perception and judgement." Morris, G. (2009). Angel Train, B&H Publishing Group. Quem dii odere, paedagogum fecere (also Quem dii oderunt, paedagogum fecerunt) Translation: "Whom the gods hate, they make pedagogues." Moritz, K. P. Anton Reiser: Ein Psychologischer Roman, tredition. Qui audet adipiscitur. Translation: "He who dares wins." Ekaterina Walter Think Like Zuck: The Five Business Secrets of Facebook's Improbably Brilliant CEO Mark Zuckerberg http://books.google.com/books?id=J8Gjmoy2rbkC 14 August 2013 18 December 2012 McGraw Hill Professional 978-0-07-180949-8 177 Qui dormit non peccat Translation: "He who sleeps does not sin." Archer, P. and L. Archer 500 Foreign Words and Phrases You Should Know to Sound Smart: Terms to Demonstrate Your Savoir Faire, Chutzpah, and Bravado, F+W Media. Quidquid agis, prudenter agas, et respice finem Translation: "Whatever you do, may you do it prudently, and consider the end." Timmer, M. Van Anima tot Zeus / druk 1: encyclopedie van begrippen uit de mythologie, religie, alchemie, cultuurgeschiedenis en jungiaanse psychologie, Lemniscaat. Quidquid discis, tibi discis Translation: "Whatever you learn, you learn it for yourself." Arbiter, P. and W. D. Lowe (1905). Petronii Cena Trimalchionis, D. Bell and co. Quidquid latine dictum, altum videtur Translation: "Whatever is said in Latin seems profound." Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 965 2200 0415096243 Quieta non movere Translation: "Don't move settled things." English equivalent: "Don't rock the boat"; "let sleeping dogs lie." McKenna, M. (1996). The Captive Republic: A History of Republicanism in Australia, 1788-1996, Cambridge University Press. Qui habet aures audiendi audiat Translation: "Those who have ears to hear, let them hear." (Vulgate, Matthew 11:15) Collins, J. F. (1985). A Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin, Catholic University of America Press. Qui me amat, amet et canem meum. Translation: "Who loves me also loves my dog." Meaning: If you love someone, you will virtually like everything about him. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 953 2200 0415096243 Qui multum habet, plus cupit. Translation: "He who has much desires more." (Seneca) Jones, P. V. and K. C. Sidwell (1986). Reading Latin: Grammar, Vocabulary and Exercises, Cambridge University Press. Qui nimis capit, parum stringit. English equivalent: "Don't have too many irons in the fire." Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 977 2200 0415096243 Qui non est hodie, cras minus aptus erit. Translation: "He who is not ready today, will be less so tomorrow." English equivalent: He that will not when he may, when he will he may have nay. (Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA120 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 120) "Take advantage of an opportunity when it presents itself, even if you do not want or need it at the time, because it may no longer be available when you do." Kelly Walter Keating 1859 Proverbs of all nations W. Kent & co. (late D. Bogue) 41 238 Qui non proficit, deficit. Translation: "He who does not go forward, loses ground." or "He who does not accomplish anything, is a failure/has shortcomings." English equivalent: "He who does not advance goes backwards." Stone, J. R. (2005). The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs and Sayings, Routledge. Qui primus venerit, primus verat. English equivalent: "First come, first served." Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 32 Qui pro innocente dicit, satis est eloquens. Translation: "He who speaks for the innocent is eloquent enough." (Publilius Syrus) Chambers, P. L. (2007). Latin Alive and Well: An Introductory Text, University of Oklahoma Press. Qui rogat, non errat. Translation: "(One) who asks, doesn't err." English equivalent: The only stupid question is the one not asked. Mimbar Altar, Kanisius. Qui scribit, bis legit. Translation: "Who writes, reads twice." Stone, J. R. (2005). The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs and Sayings, Routledge. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Translation: "Who watches the watchmen?" Satires by Juvenal Qui tacet consentire videtur. English equivalent: "Silence gives consent." Mawr Mrs. E. B. Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages https://books.google.com/books?id=7lBlAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA70 1885 70 S Qui tacet consentire videtur, ubi loqui debuit ac potuit. Translation: "Who is silent is seen to agree, when he ought to and might have spoken." Schlesinger, R. B., P. G. Bonassies, et al. (1968). Formation of contracts: a study of the common core of legal systems, conducted under the auspices of the General principles of law project of the Cornell Law School, Oceana Publications. Qui transtulit sustinet. Translation: "He who transplanted still sustains." (motto of Connecticut referring to the transplantation of settlers from England to the New World.) Caughman, G., J. Devine, et al. (1997). Qui Transtulit Sustinet. Qui vitulum tollit, taurum subduxerit idem . English equivalent: He that steals an egg will steal an ox. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 962 2200 0415096243 Qui vult dare parva non debet magna rogare. Translation: "He who wishes to give little shouldn't ask for much." Crawford, G. A. and U. o. M. L. Workshop (1963). Elementary Latin: the basic structures, University of Michigan Press. Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur. Translation: What is asserted gratuitously may be denied gratuitously. Jon R. Stone, The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations (2005), p. 101. Anonymous, widely used since at least the early 19th century (e.g. The Classical Journal, Vol. 40 (1829), p. 312). Quod nocet, saepe docet Translation: "That which harms, often teaches." English equivalent: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Hoffmann, K. J. (1836). Doppelte aus dem Klassikern gewählte Beispielsammlung für die Syntax der kleinen und grossen Grammatik von Zumpt: nebst einer Beispielsammlung für die Syntaxis ornata und einem Lesenbuche für Anfänger, Dümmler. R Rapiamus, amici, occasionem de die. English equivalent: Opportunity knocks only once. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 400 2200 0415096243 Rem tene verba sequentur. Translation: Stick to the subject and the words will follow. (Marcus Porcius Cato) Colish, M. L. (1985). The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages, E.J. Brill. Repetita iuvant. Translation: "Repetition is useful", or "Repeating things helps". Ghislotti, S. (2008). Repetita iuvant. Mnemotecniche del film narrativo, Sestante. Repetitio est mater studiorum. Translation: Repetition is the mother of study. Stone, J. R. (2005). The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs and Sayings, Routledge. Roma die uno non aedificata est Translation: Rome wasn't built in a day. Kudla, H. (2001). Lexikon der lateinischen Zitate: 3500 Originale mit Übersetzungen und Belegstellen, Beck. S Salus aegroti suprema lex. Translation: The well-being of the patient is the most important law. Source: Giesen Dieter 1988 International Medical Malpractice Law: A Comparative Law Study of Civil Liability Arising from Medical Care BRILL 457 3166453229 Salus populi suprema lex esto. Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law. (motto of the U.S. state of Missouri). "Ideally, our rules should be formed in such a fashion that an ordinary helpful kind thoughtful person doesn't really even need to know the rules. You just get to work, do something fun, and nobody hassles you as long as you are being thoughtful and kind." Jimbo Wales, User talk statement (7 April 2005) Source: Giesen Dieter 1988 International Medical Malpractice Law: A Comparative Law Study of Civil Liability Arising from Medical Care BRILL 457 3166453229 Sapere aude. Translation: Dare to be wise. (Horace) (Motto of the University of New Brunswick) Zanda Rubene 2004 Sapere aude!: critical thinking in university studies in Latvia 135 9984770648 Sapiens dominabitur astris. Translation: A wise (man) will rule (or possibly, be ruled by) the stars. Alt. Translation "A Wise Man Is Limited By The Stars" Glick Thomas F 2005 Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia Routledge 62 598 0415969301 Sapiens omnia sua secum portat Translation: A wise man takes everything he owns with himself. (i.e. in his head, his wealth is his wisdom) English equivalent: A good mind possess a kingdom. J. Henle Robert 1980 Latin Grammar Loyola Press 195 272 0829401121 Sapientia abscondita et thesaurus invisus quae utilitas in utrisque. English equivalent: You can't take it with you. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1013 2200 0415096243 Sapientia est potentia. Translation: Wisdom is power. Gulsun Namik 2012 Master of Puppets: Seeds of Fate AuthorHouse 99 600 1467881694 Scientia non habet inimicum nisi ignorantem. Translation: Knowledge has no enemies but the ignorant. Milton Martin Richard 1980 Primordiality, Science, and Value SUNY Press 148 331 0873954432 Senatores boni viri, senatus autem mala bestia Translation: Senators are good men, however Senate is a malicious animal Sedláček Tomáš 2011 Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street Oxford University Press 266 352 0199767203 Sermo hominum mores et celat et indicat idem. Translation: The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men. English equivalent: Men talk only to conceal the mind. Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs, Volym 1 Routledge 1088 0415096243 Sepem vir calcat ibi plus ubi passio exstat. English equivalent: Men leap over where the hedge is lower. Note: Also knows as the Law of least effort. Meaning: Always do things in a way that requires the absolut least amount of labor. Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 1087 2200 0415096243 Serpens, nisi serpentem comederit, non fit draco. Translation: A serpent, if it does not devour a serpent, does not become a dragon. Francis Bacon, Essays (1612), apparently translating a Greek proverb.Robert Nares, A Glossary, p. 781. Michael Apostolius, Proverbs (15th century), translates the Greek proverb: Serpens nisi serpentem edat, non fiet draco.Michael Apostolius, Paroemiae [Proverbs]. Ed. Daniel Heinsius. Leiden, 1619. p. 187 Erasmus, Adages (16th century), translates the Greek proverb: Serpens ni edat serpentem, draco non fiet.Erasmus III iii 61, translated in William Watson Barker, ed. The Adages of Erasmus, p. 272 Attributed to Pliny the Elder (Natural History, c. 77-79 AD) by Richard Brathwaite,Richard Brathwaite, The English Gentleman 1630, p. 237. but Robert Nares believes Brathwaite is mistaken. A search of the text returns many remarks on dragons and serpents, but nothing like this statement. Si amicus tuus mingit, minge; nisi mingere vis, mingere finge! Translation: If your buddy is peeing, pee too; if you don't feel like peeing, pretend doing so. (medieval Occidental students, anonymous) Si fueris Romae, Romano vivito more, si fueris alibi, vivito sicut ibi. Translation: If you are in Rome, live in the Roman way, if you are somewhere else, live like there. (attributed to Ambrose of Milan) English equivalent: When in Rome, do as the Romans. Strauss Emmanuel 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs, Volym 1 Routledge 673 2200 0415096243 Si hîc esses, seires qua me vellicent. English equivalent: No one knows where the shoe pinches, but he who wears it. "Nobody can fully understand another person's hardship or suffering." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 289 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages 4 Sic Parvis Magna. Translation: "Greatness from Small Beginnings." Burke Bernard 1864 The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and wales: comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time Harrison & sons 299 1185 Silent leges inter arma. Translation: "During war, laws are silent." (Cicero) Walzer Michael 2006 Just And Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations Basic Books 3 361 0465037070 Similia similibus. English equivalent: Like will to like. "Every man loves well what is like to himself." Folk-Etymology http://books.google.com/books?id=fXrlvr_kPXwC&pg=PA216 Ardent Media 216 1886 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 51 Si vis pacem, para bellum. Translation: "If you want peace, prepare for war." Paraphrase of Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum (Vegetius, Epitoma rei militaris) Etymon of parabellum for some ammunition and firearms, e.g. Luger parabellum Wallerfelt Bengt 1999 Si VIS Pacem, Para Bellum: Svensk Sakerhetspolitik Och Krigsplanering 1945-1975 Probus X 214 9187184605 Si vis pacem, para iustitiam. Translation: "If you want peace, prepare justice." Keogh Dermot 2008 Gerald Goldberg: A Tribute Mercier Press Ltd 169 221 1856355810 Simia est simia, etiamsi purpura vestiatur. Translation: "A monkey is a monkey, even if it is dressed in purple." English equivalent: "A golden bit does not make the horse any better." Meaning: An ugly thing will remain ugly even if its appeareance is taken care of. Strauss Emanuel Abbreviated 1998 Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 52 504 0415160502 Some remedies are worse than the disease. Note: Specified as a Roman proverb in the source. Stone 2006 Routledge Dictionary of World Proverbs Taylor \& Francis 357 Stultorum est se alienis immiscere negotiis. English equivalent: Give neither salt nor counsel till you are asked for it. Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages 60 Sua cuique sponsa, mihi mea; suum cuique pulchrum. English equivalent: Every man thinks his own geese swans. "This proverb imitates that an inbred Philauty runs through the whole Race of Fleſh and Blood. It blinds the Underſtanding, perverts the Judgment and depraves the Reaſon of the Diſtinguishers of Truth and Falſity." Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 Mawr E.B. 1885 Analogous Proverbs in Ten Languages http://editura.mttlc.ro/carti/mawr-analogous-proverbs.pdf 42 Summum ius summa inuria. Translation: "More law, less justice." (Cicero, De officiis I, 10, 33) Whittaker Simon 2000 Good Faith in European Contract Law Cambridge University Press 65 720 0521771900 Sunt facta verbis difficiliora Translation: "Works are harder than words." English equivalent: "Easier said than done." Shackleton-Bailey D. R. 2004 Cicero: Epistulae Ad Quintum Fratrem Et M. Brutum Cambridge University Press 49 288 0521607000 Sunt pueri pueri pueri puerilia tractant Translation: "Boys are boys and boys will act like boys." Stone Jon R. 2005 The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs and Sayings Latin for the Illiterati Series Routledge 115 394 0415969085 English equivalent: Boys will be boys. Sutor, ne ultra crepidam! Translation: "Cobbler, no further than the sandal!" I.e. don't offer your opinion on things that are outside your competence. It is said that the Greek painter Apelles once asked the advice of a cobbler on how to render the sandals of a soldier he was painting. When the cobbler started offering advice on other parts of the painting, Apelles rebuked him with this phrase (but in Greek). 1740 Sutor ne ultra crepidam, oder ein jeder bleib bey seinem Handwerck: In einem mit Nachsetzung seines Handwerks allzu weit über die Schnur hauenden Schmidt, zu einem Faßnacht-Hainzl vorgestellt in Seminario Cler. Saec. In Com. Vir. Zu Ingolstadt Suum cuique Pulchrum. Translation: To each its own is beautiful. English equivalent: The bird loves her own nest. Divers Proverbs, Nathan Bailey, 1721 T Tarde venientibus ossa. Translation: "For those who come late, only the bones." Strauss Emanuel 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs, Volym 1 Routledge 625 1050 0415096243 Tempora aptari decet. Translation: Times should be adapted to. English equivalent: Take things as you find them. "We should not plan and then try to make circumstances fit those plans. Instead we should make plans fit the circumstances." George S. Patton, War as I Knew It (1947) Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 865 2200 0415096243 Tempori parce! Translation: "Save time!" Gottlob Zumpt Karl 4 1836 A grammar of the Latin language B. Fellowes 275 486 Tempus fugit. Translation: "Time flees." (i.e., "time flies"). Originally as Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus - translation: "Meanwhile the irreplaceable time flees" (Virgil) English equivalent: Time and tide waits for none. Almond Frank 2002 Tempus Fugit C&M Online Media 0917990501 Tempus fugit, aeternitas manet. Translation: "Time flees, eternity dwells." Strauss Emanuel illustrerad 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs, Volume 1 625 1062 0415096243 Tempus fugit, amor manet. Translation: "Time flees, love stays" (Edith) Nesbit E 2010 Man and Maid Echo Library 10 136 1406895598 Timendi causa est nescire. Translation: "The cause of fear is ignorance." (Seneca) R. Stone Jon illustrerad 2005 The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs and Sayings Routledge 118 394 0415969093 Tres faciunt collegium. Translation: "Three makes a company." Berger Adolf 1953 Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law, Volym 43 Transactions of the American Philosophical Society American Philosophical Society 742 0871694328 Tolle, lege; Tolle, lege! Translation: "Take up and read; take up and read!" (Augustinus) J. Teske Roland 2011 Tolle Lege: Essays on Augustine and on Medieval Philosophy in Honor of Roland J. Teske, Sj Utgåva 73 av Marquette Studies in Philosophy Marquette University Press 364 0874628075 Tunc tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet. Translation: "It also concerns you when the nearest wall is burning." R. Stone Jon illustrerad 2005 The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs and Sayings Routledge 119 394 0415969093 U Ut salutas (saltus), ita salutaberis. English equivalent: What goes around comes around. Lautenbach Ernst 2002 Latein-Deutsch: Zitaten-Lexikon: Quellennachweise LIT Verlag Münster 932 3825856526 Ubi bene, ibi patria Translation: "Where one feels good, there is one's country." Adeleye Gabriel 1999 World Dictionary of Foreign Expressions: A Resource for Readers and Writers Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers 389 411 0865164231 Ubi concordia, ibi victoria. Translation: "Where there is harmony, there is victory." Webb Amy 2006 The Devil's Duty Lulu.com 212 1411649842 Ubi dubium, ibi libertas. Translation: "Where there is doubt, there is freedom." legal, meaning when in doubt the prisoner has to be freed. Greener Richard 2006 The Lacey Confession Llewellyn Worldwide 420 447 0738708704 Ubi fumus, ibi ignis. Translation: "Where there's smoke, there's fire." Thomasius Christian 1715 Cautelae circa doctrinam de praesumptione allodialitatis 29 Ulula cum lupis, cum quibus esse cupis. Translation: "Who keeps company with wolves, will learn to howl." Tournoy Gilbert 1993 Humanistica Lovaniensia Leuven University Press 32 526 9061865719 Uni navi ne committas omnia. Translation: Do not commit all to one boat. English equivalent: Don't put all your eggs in the same basket. "Spread your risks or investments so that if one enterprise fails you will not lose everything." Source for meaning of English equivalent: Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA63 18 August 2013 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 63 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 715 2200 0415096243 Una hirundo non facit ver. Translation: "One swallow doesn't make spring." Meaning: A solitary event is no indication that a major change is taking place. Vergil Polydore nytryck 1663 Polydori Virgilii De Rerum Inventoribus Ayer Publishing xii 242 0833715631 Unum castigabis, centum emendabis. Translation: "For one reprimand, a hundred corrections." Lautenbach Ernst 2002 Latein-Deutsch: Zitaten-Lexikon: Quellennachweise LIT Verlag Münster 129 932 3825856526 Usus magister est optimus. Translation: "Experience is the best teacher." (i.e., "Practice makes perfect.") Strauss Emmanuel 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs, Volym 1 Routledge 698 0415096243 Ut ameris, amabilis esto. Translation: "Be amiable, then you'll be loved." Stone, J. R. (2005). The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs and Sayings, Routledge. Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas. Translation: "Even if the powers are missing, the will deserves praise" (Ovid) Kirk Rappaport Pamela 2005 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Writings Paulist Press 290 323 0809105306 Ut sementem feceris, ita metes. Translation: "You'll reap what you sow." (Cicero, "De oratore"); The Bible Job 4:8; Galatians 6:7. English equivalent: What you reap is what you sow. Sloman Arthur 1928 a grammar of classical latin CUP Archive 343 487 Ut sis nocte levis, sit cena brevis! Translation: "That your sleeping hour be peaceful, let your dining hour be brief!" Strauss Emmanuel 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs, Volym 1 Routledge 818 0415096243 Uxor formosa et vinum sunt dulcia venena. Translation: "Beautiful women and wine are sweet venom." Beudel Paul 1911 Qua ratione Graeci liberos docuerint, papyris, ostracis, tabulis in Aegypto inventis illustratur: commentationem philologicam E Typographia Aschendorffiana 32 68 V Varitatio delectat. English equivalent: Variety is the spice of life. Source: Strauss Emmanuel 1998 Dictionary of European Proverbs Routledge 89 0415160502 Vasa inania multum strepunt. English equivalent: Empty vessels make the greatest sound. von Düringsfeld, Ida von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld Otto freiherr Sprichwörter der germanischen und romanischen Sprachen vergleichend zusammengestellt von Ida von Duringsfeld und Otto Freihern von Reinsberg-Düringsfeld https://books.google.com/books?id=Xc9u8vj9CXsC&pg=PA11 1875 11 22 Vasa vana plurimum sonant. English equivalent: It is not the hen that cackles the most that lay the most eggs. Macdonnel David Evans 6 1869 A dictionary of select and popular quotations, which are in daily use: taken from the Latin, French, Greek, Spanish and Italian languages : together with a copious collection of law-maxims and law-terms translated into English, with illustrations historical and idiomatic Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger 296 312 Ventis secundis, tene cursum. English equivalent: Go with the flow. "Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows. Let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances." isbn Tzu Sun ̃¨ 400 B.C The Art of War http://classics.mit.edu/Tzu/artwar.html VI. Weak Points and Strong Mesiah Leza M. 2007 Recipes for Recovery: How to Heal Loss and a Broken Heart AuthorHouse 138 188 1425965954 Verba docent, exempla trahunt. Translation: Words instruct, illustrations lead. Rautenberg Wolfgang 3 2009 A Concise Introduction to Mathematical Logic Springer 58 319 1441912207 Verba volant, scripta manent. Translation: Words are fleeting; writing remains. Gerhart Eugene C. 1998 Quote It Completely!: World Reference Guide to More Than 5,500 Memorable Quotations from Law and Literature Wm. S. Hein Publishing 1171 1362 1575884003 Verit eo caudam, qua decidit arbore, malum. English equivalent: The apple does not fall far from the tree. "Children observe daily and — in their behaviour — often follow the example of their parents." Paczolay Gyula 1997 European Proverbs in 55 languages DeProverbio.com 259 527 1-875943-44-7 Veritas odium paret Translation: Truth creates hatred. (Terence, Andria 68) Sacul Snofla 2011 If Only God Used His Brain: Ahead of Time Xlibris Corporation 149 242 146533565X Veritas vos liberabit Translation: The truth will set you free. From the Gospel of John, 8:32 R. Stone Jon The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs, and Sayings https://books.google.com/books?id=EZJoSq45EPQC&pg=PA217 2013 978-1-135-88110-8 217 Veritatem dies aperit. Translation: Time discloses the truth. Strauss Emmanuel 1994 Dictionary of European Proverbs, Volym 1 Routledge 1206 0415096243 Vincit omnia veritas. Translation: Truth conquers all. Stone Jon R. 1996 Latin for the Illiterati: Exorcizing the Ghosts of a Dead Language Classics, Language, Reference Routledge 150 201 0415917751 Vincit qui patitur. - motto Berea College, Berea, KY English equivalent: Persevere and never fear. Olive Emmons Mary 2009 Moods and Whims READ BOOKS 53 102 1444678787 Vir fugiens et denuo pugnabit. English equivalent: He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day. "It is wiser to withdraw from a situation that you cannot win than to go on fighting and lose – by a strategic retreat you can return to the battle or argument with renewed energy at a later date." Martin H. Manser The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs http://books.google.com/books?id=fgaUQc8NbTYC&pg=PA123 2007 Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-6673-5 123 Strauss Emanuel Volume 2 1994 Dictionary of European proverbs Routledge 702 2200 0415096243 Vita brevis, ars longa. English meaningː Life is short; art is long. Green Tamara M. The Greek & Latin roots of English https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Greek_Latin_Roots_of_English/x_k-vjNulXAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA215 2003 215 Viveri bis, vitâ posse priori frui. Translation: It is to live twice to be able to enjoy the retrospect of your past life. Hugh Moore A dictionary of quotations from various authors in ancient and modern languages http://books.google.com/books?id=2wb-dMzaXw8C&pg=PA61 14 August 2013 1831 137 Vivit post funera virtus. Translation: Virtue survives the grave. Henry Thomas Riley Dictionary of Latin Quotations, Proverbs, Maxims, and Mottos, Classical and Mediaeval 1856 503 Vulpes pilum mutat, non mores! Translation: A fox can change its fur, not its behavior. English equivalent A leopard won't change its spots. Lautenbach Ernst 2002 Latein-Deutsch: Zitaten-Lexikon: Quellennachweise LIT Verlag Münster 425 932 3825856526 See also Ageless Wisdom Teachings Aphorisms Esperanto proverbs Latin for All Occasions, by Henry Beard Maxims Medieval Latin proverbs Philosophy Proverbs Wisdom References External links List of Latin phrases (full) Latin Via Proverbs: 4000 Proverbs, Mottoes and Sayings for Students of Latin Category:Proverbs by language proverbs