Latin Authors

"In tranquillo esse quisque gubernator potest."

"Formonsa facies muta commendatio est."

"Fortunam citius reperias quam retineas."

"Fortuna vitrea est: tum cum splendet frangitur."

"Fortuna cum blanditur, captatum venit."

"Inopiae desunt multa, avaritiae omnia."

"Honesta turpitudo est pro causa bona."

"He who helps the guilty, shares the crime."

"Contra impudentem stulta est nimia ingenuitas"

"Honesta fama melior est pecunia."

"Audendo virtus crescit, tardando timor."

"Ames parentem, si aequus est, si aliter, feras."

"Alienum aes homini ingenuo acerba est servitus."

"Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter."

"Practice is the best of all instructors."

"Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy."

"The bow too tensely strung is easily broken."

"To forget the wrongs you receive, is to remedy them."

"No tears are shed, when an enemy dies."

"In sterculino plurimum gallus potest."

"When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all."

"Success makes some crimes honorable."

"Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised."

"By doing nothing men learn to do ill."

"Do not take part in the council, unless you are called."

"Powerful indeed is the empire of habit."

"There are some remedies worse than the disease."

"His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune."

"When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company."

"Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity."

"A fair exterior is a silent recommendation."

"What is left when honor is lost?"

"You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot."

"Even when there is no law, there is conscience."

"Even when the wound is healed, the scar remains."

"We may with advantage at times forget what we know."

"It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are."

"Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely."

"Even a single hair casts its shadow."

"Solitude is the mother of anxieties."

"For him who loves labor, there is always something to do."

"Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account."

"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity."

"What happens to one man may happen to all."

"Patience is a remedy for every sorrow."

"Have courage, or cunning, when you deal with an enemy."

"Crescentem sequitur cura pecuniam, Maiorumque fames."

"Come, Mercury, by whose minstrel spell Amphion raised the Theban stones, Come, with thy seven sweet strings, my shell, Thy "diverse tones," Nor vocal once nor pleasant, now To rich man's board and temple dear: Put forth thy power, till Lyde bow Her stubborn ear."

"Vis consili expers mole ruit sua."

"Si fractus illabatur orbis, impavidum ferient ruinae."