Latin proverbs

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Per risum multum potes cognoscere stultum. Show translation You can tell a lot about a fool by a smile. A fool will laugh when he is drowning.
Ab ipso lare incipe. Show translation Start with him. Sweep before your own door.
Aquila non generat columbam. Show translation The eagle does not beget the dove. Eagles do not breed doves.
Dii facientes adiuvant. Show translation Helping the gods doing it. God helps them that help themselves.
Sanitas est bonum non cognitum nisi perditum. Show translation Health is a good not known until lost. Health is better than wealth.
Friget, quem petere piget. Show translation He is cold, whom he is reluctant to ask. The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Qui bonum respuit consilium, sibi ipsi nocet. Show translation He who rejects good advice does himself harm. He that will not be counselled cannot be helped.
Cuius edis panes, illius et aspice nutum. Show translation You eat whose bread, and look at his gesture. He loves me well that makes my belly swell.
Sunt tres, qui nullo discrimine vera fatentur: ebrius, stultus nesciolusque puer. Show translation There are three who confess the truth without discrimination: a drunkard, a fool, and an ignorant child. Children and fools tell the truth.
Claudi vicinus claudicat ipse brevi. Show translation Claudius's neighbor soon became lame himself.
Ab equo ad asinum. Show translation From the horse to the donkey. Today a man, tomorrow a mouse.
Divitiae mores mutant non in meliores. Show translation Wealth does not change behavior for the better. Money is a good servant, but a bad master.
E squilla non nascitur rosa. Show translation A rose does not grow from a shrimp. A Wild goose never laid a tame egg.
Aliena ne cures. Show translation Don't worry about strangers. Scald not your lips in another man's pottage.
Vile donum vilis gratia. Show translation A cheap gift and a cheap grace. As the pay, so the work.
Ingens telum necessitas. Show translation The need for a huge weapon. Need makes the old wife trot.
Asinus in aula fovetur solum propter saccos portandos. Show translation A donkey is encouraged in the court only for carrying bags.
Quod cibus est aliis, aliis est acre venenum. Show translation What is food to some is a sharp poison to others. One man's meat is another man's poison.
Osse caret glossa quandoque tamen terit ossa. Show translation The bone lacks gloss, but sometimes it rubs the bones. Tongue breaks bone, and herself has none.
Facit experientia cautos. Show translation Experience makes them cautious.

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