Justice is exercised in the proper prevention, rather than in the severe punishment, of crime.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about punishment, crime, criminals, justice
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Rest strengthens the body, the mind too is thus supported; but unremitting toil destroys both.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about body, rest, mind
Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about fear, contentment
The memory of a benefit vanisheth, but the remembrance of an injury sticketh fast in the heart.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about memory, fasting, heart
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
When a man's mode of life is contemptible, it follows that his preaching is treated with contempt.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about contempt, life, man
A wheel not greased will creak. [Those who are not properly paid will not work without grumbling. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about work
When spherical bodies can unite and embrace, then there will be friendship amongst the avaricious.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about friendship
Figs he calls figs, a spade a spade. [Said of a man who speaks with sincerity and means what he says. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about sincerity, man
Have a care how you irritate the wasps. [Meddle not with waspish people. Attack not a combined force. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about attack, force, police, people, contentment
That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about olderness, beauty, age, face, old
I speak of garlic, you reply about onions. [I speak of one thing, you reply what is wholly irrelevant. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about things, contentment
Those who see the faults of others, and see not their own, are wise for others and fools for themselves.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
If you sit on a seat, and that seat is a comfortable seat, sit on that seat, and do not leave that seat.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about contentment
Let but the hours of idleness cease, and the bow of Cupid will become broken and his torch extinguished.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin
The field should be poorer than the farmer. [It is useless for a man to attempt farming without capital. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about man
What is not understood [explained] by what is less understood. [To make confusion still more confounded. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about confusion
He opens the theatre, and immediately closes it. [He raises expectation, and crushes it at the same time. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about theatre, expectation, time
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about man
In the great sea fish is always to be caught. [There is a greater chance for enterprise in a large place. ]
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about chance, fishing
