Latin proverbs

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Qui ratione traduci ad meliora non possunt, solo metu continentur. Show translation Those who cannot be led to better things by reason are restrained only by fear. Fear keeps the garden better than the gardener.
Pauper ubique iacet. Show translation The poor lie everywhere. Losers are always in the wrong.
Undique ad inferos tantundem viae est. Show translation There are only so many ways to hell. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Senem iuventus pigra mendicum creat. Show translation An old youth creates a lazy beggar. They must hunger in frost that will not work in heat.
Raram fecit mixturam cum sapientia forma. Show translation He made a rare mixture with the form of wisdom. Fair and foolish, black and proud, long and lazy, little and loud.
Qualis dominus, talis servus. Show translation As the master, so the servant. Jack is as good as his master.
Montes auri polliceri. Show translation Promised mountains of gold. He that promises too much, means nothing.
Nulla rosa sine spina. Show translation There is no rose without a thorn. There is no rose without a thorn.
Multam malitiam docuit otiositas. Show translation Idleness has taught me much wickedness. Idleness is the key of poverty.
Cedendo victor abibis. Show translation By giving up, you will walk away victorious. The Wise head gives in.
Irretit muscas, transmittit aranea vespas. Show translation He snares flies, sends spiders wasps. Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.
Melius est pueros flere quam senes. Show translation It is better to weep for children than for old people. Better children weep than old men.
Vulpes non iterum capitur laqueo. Show translation The fox is not caught in the trap again. It is a silly fish that is caught twice, with the same bait.
Nihil est tam munitum, quod non expugnari pecunia possit. Show translation There is nothing so fortified that money cannot be attacked. Money will do anything.
Si promissa facit sapientem barba, quid obstat, barbatus possit vel caper esse Plato. Show translation If a beard makes a man wise by promises, what is the problem, that a bearded man can be a goat or a goat? If the beard were all, the goat might preach.
Melius est pede, quam labi lingua. Show translation It is better with the foot than with the tongue. Better the foot slip than the tongue.
Vetus amor non sentit rubiginem. Show translation Old love feels no rust. Old love will not be forgotten.
Nulli ad aliena respicienti sua placent. Show translation No one likes to be looked at by strangers. Your pot broken seems better than my whole one.
Si digitum porrexeris, manum invadet. Show translation If you put out a finger, it will invade your hand. Give him an inch and he'll take an ell.
Male agitur cum domino, quem vilicus docet. Show translation The master, whom the steward teaches, is treated badly. Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil.

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