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Bear and forbear.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: also attributed to Epictetus
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Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts
are not worth the expence.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: also attributed to Epictetus
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I see the better course and approve of it; I follow, alas! the
worse!
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Idleness ruins the constitution.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes
overcast you will be alone.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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It is a kingly act to help the fallen.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave
fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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It is good to be taught even by an enemy.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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It is not easy to bear prosperity unruffled.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Let but the hours of idleness cease, and the bow of Cupid will
become broken and his torch extinguished.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Let the poor man mind his tongue.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Love and dignity do not dwell together.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Love conquers all things; let us own her dominion.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Make good use of your time, it flies fast.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to
approach the place of danger.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled;
nor can the hour, which has once fled by, return again.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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No herb can remedy the anguish of love.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Novelty in all things is charming.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Our native land attracts us with some mysterious charm, never to
be forgotten.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Our neighbour's crop is always more fruitful and his cattle
produce more milk than our own.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I
scarcely recognize as our own.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Pleasure is often the introduction to pain.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is the companion of
the fair.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but
unremitting toil destroys both.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold,
So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of
detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Small minds are captivated by trifles.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Take time: much may be gained by patience.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Tears are at times as eloquent as words. [Weeping hath a voice.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age
will bring its wrinkles to the brow.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Often a silent face has voice and words.
[Lat., Saepe tacens vocem verbaque vultus habet.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Ars Amatoria (bk. I, 574)
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Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from
betraying guilt!
[Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Metamorphoses (II, 447)
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Rome was not built in a day.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Metamorphoses (II, 447)
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Let those love now, who never loved before,
Let those who always loved, now love the more.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Metamorphoses (II, 447)
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