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Every lover is a slave: he follows captive at his mistress's heels.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

It is a solace to the miserable to have a companion in their grief.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about sadness

A good thing is esteemed more in its absence than in its enjoyment.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about joy, things, good, good luck

Divide and rule. [Win by creating disunion among your adversaries. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about rules

Honey-tongued, soft spoken, malicious, and unprincipled in conduct.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about conduct

The silence resulting from absence has destroyed many a friendship.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about friendship, silence

No man can think well of himself who does not think well of others.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about man

Have a care not to commence an undertaking of which you may repent.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about contentment

However extravagant men's desires, they hope to see them gratified.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about hope, man

When the tale of bricks is doubled, then Moses makes his appearance.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about fairy tales

Had he not been visited by sickness, he would have perished utterly.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

He hath not a farthing left wherewith to buy a rope to hang himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about commerce

He is a fool who spares the children after having killed the father.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about children

You are looking for wings in a wolf. [You hunt for impossibilities. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about contentment

A whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither fit for God nor men.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about woman, man, god

You should eat plentifully of the flesh of the turtle or not at all.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about contentment

As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to you.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about contentment

Make a virtue of necessity. [Claim credit for compulsory rectitude. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about virtue

If a man falls in love with a frog, he thinks his frog a very Diana.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about love, man

He who would speak well should well consider his subject beforehand.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin