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.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about merit, silence
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Great discomfort arises from too hearty a supper: if you would enjoy a tranquil sleep let your supper be a light one.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about sleep, light
She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about danger
Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about wealth, man
Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled; nor can the hour, which has once fled by, return again.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
Treat your friends as if hereafter they will become your enemies, and your enemies as if they will become your friends.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about enemies
A swarm in May is worth a load of hay; a swarm in June is worth a silver spoon; but a swarm in July is not worth a fly.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
Bright enough in the dark, dull in time of day. [Learned in what is of no use, ignorant of everything at all available. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about dark, use, time, day
Whose interest was it? To whose prejudice was it? [Who might expect to derive benefit, or injury, from a crime committed? ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about prejudice, interest, crime, criminals
Injuries, when treated with contempt, vanish and have no effect. If you show anger their effect would appear to be acknowledged.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about contempt, anger
'Tis gold Which makes the true man killed, and saves the thief; Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man; what Can it not do, and undo?
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about thieves, man
Correct a wise man, and he will be grateful; correct a fool, and he will not only give a deaf ear, but send you off with a flea in your ear.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about man
What is lighter than a feather? Dust. What lighter than dust? Wind. What lighter than the wind? A harlot. What lighter than a harlot? Nothing.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about nothing
Possessions dwindle: I mourn their loss. But I mourn the loss of time much more, for anyone can save his purse, but none can win back lost time.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about time
There is a time when nothing should be said, there is a time when some things may be said. but there is indeed no time in which everything can be said.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about time, things, nothing
The dog that fetches will also carry. (Translation If someone reveals another's secrets to you, the same person will reveal your secrets to the world. )
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about world, people
He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all the contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and is struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about life
Hard things alone will not make a wall. [Some soft substance must unite them: and so with hard men--to fraternize they require some soft influence from others. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about influence, things, man
Instead of a treasure, coals! [ 'Rum, ' I hopes! 'Baccy, ' I thinks! 'Tracts, ' by jingo! Sailor's remark on discovering that he had picked up a bottle of tracts. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about treasure
If all men were on an equality, the consequence would be that all must perish: for who would till the ground? who would sow it? Who would plant? who would press wine?.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about press, consequences, equality, wine, man
