Latin Authors

"No one knows what he can do till he tries."

"It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity."

"God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones."

"We should provide in peace what we need in war."

"It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody."

"Be your money's master, not its slave."

"Money alone sets all the world in motion."

"Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last."

"He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself."

"No man is happy who does not think himself so."

"Don't turn back when you are just at the goal."

"It is only the ignorant who despise education."

"Quod vult habet, qui cupere quod sat est potest."

"Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently."

"No one should be judge in his own cause."

"Never promise more than you can perform."

"Saxum volutum non obducitur musco"

"The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself."

"Never find your delight in another's misfortune."

"He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion."

"A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it."

"Many receive advice, few profit by it."

"Society in shipwreck is a comfort to all."

"An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage."

"There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace."

"Life is short, but its ills make it seem long."

"Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid."

"To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent."

"He dies twice who perishes by his own hand."

"He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill."

"Tension weakens the bow; the want of it, the mind."

"When reason rules, money is a blessing."

"A wise man rules his passions, a fool obeys them."

"The loss which is unknown is no loss at all."

"Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends."

"Confidence is the only bond of friendship."

"The anger of lovers renews the strength of love."

"There is no penalty attached to a lover's oath."

"Every one excels in something in which another fails."

"We are interested in others, when they are interested in us."

"Receive an injury rather than do one."

"As men, we are all equal in the presence of death."

"Proximum ab innocentia tenet locum verecunda peccati confessio."

"Velox consilium sequitur paenitentia."

"Taciturnitas stulto homini pro sapientia est."

"Stultum facit fortuna, quem vult perdere."

"Invitat culpam qui peccatum praeterit"

"Malum est consilium, quod mutari non potest."

"Necessitas dat legem non ipsa accipit."

"Iudex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur."