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This is a list of Latin and Roman proverbs and sayings.

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A

B

  • Beatus, qui prodest, quibus potest.
    • Translation: "He is lucky who helps everyone he can." or, very differently, "He is lucky the one who gets an advantage from those on which he has some power."

  • Beati hispani, qvibvs vivere bibere est
    • Translation: "Lucky the hispanians, for whom living is drinking"

  • Bene diagnoscitur, bene curatur.
    • Translation: "Something that is well diagnosed can be cured well."

  • Bis dat, qui cito dat.
    • Translation: "He who gives quickly gives twice."

  • Bona diagnosis, bona curatio.
    • Translation: "Good diagnosis, good cure."

  • Bona valetudo melior est quam maximae divitiae.
    • Translation: "Good health is worth more than the greatest wealth."

C

  • Cibi condimentum est fames.
    • Translation: "Hunger is a spice for any meal."

  • Concordia civium murus urbium.
    • Translation: "Harmony of citizens is the wall of cities."

  • Consuetudinis vis magna est.
    • Translation: "The power of habit is great."

  • Consuetudo altera natura est.
    • Translation: "Habit is second nature."

  • Contraria contrariis curantur.
    • Translation: "Opposites are cured by their opposites."

  • Contra vim mortis non est medicamen in hortis.
    • Translation: "There's no herb against the power of death."

  • Cura, ut valeas!
    • Translation: "Take Care, that you may be well!"

D

E

  • '\'E fructu arbor cognoscitur.''
    • Translation: "The tree can be recognized by its fruits."

  • Errare humanum est. Perseverare diabolicum.
    • Translation: "To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil."

F

  • Fabricando fit faber.
    • Translation: "Practice makes perfect."

  • Festina lente !
    • Translation: "Make haste slowly" - proceed quickly but with caution, a motto of Augustus Caesar.

  • Fide, sed qui, vide.
    • Translation: "Trust but take care whom."

  • Fortes fortuna uvat. or Audaces fortuna juvat.
    • Translation: "Fortune favors the brave."

G

  • Gloria victis.
    • Translation: "Glory to the defeated."

  • Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed saepe cadendo.
    • Translation: "A drop drills the rock not with force but by falling repeatedly."

H

I

L

  • Laborare est orare.
    • Translation: "To work is to pray."

  • Laborare omnia vincit.
    • Translation: "Labor conquers all."

M

  • Manus manum lavat.
    • Translation: "One hand washes the other."

  • Medicus curat, natura sanat.
    • Translation: "The doctor cares [for his patient], nature heals [him]."

  • Memento mori.
    • Translation: "Remember your mortality." Also, ironically, "Remember to die." it is the motto of the Friars of Trappa.

  • Mens sana in corpore sano.
    • Translation: "A healthy spirit in a healthy body." (This quotation is out of context: As quoted here, it appears to say that a healthy body is the prerequisite for a healthy spirit, but that's not how it was meant initially. The complete quote is Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano, which means "Let's hope that there is a healthy spirit in a healthy body.")

  • Munit haec et altera vincit.
    • Translation: "One defends and the other conquers" (motto of .)

N

  • Naturo abhorret a vacuo.
    • Translation: "Nature abhors a vacuum."

  • Nec Hercules contra plures.
  • Nemo me impune lacessit.
    • Translation: "No-one attacks me with impunity," the Scots national motto.

  • Neque ignorare medicum oportet quae sit aegri natura.
  • Nihil lacrima citius arescit.
    • Translation: "Nothing dries more quickly than a tear."

  • Nil sine numini.
    • Translation: "Nothing without Providence."

  • Nomen est omen.
    • Translation: "The meaning is in the name."

  • Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo.
    • Translation: "I was not, I was, I am not, I don't care." (found on tombstones abbreviated NFFNSNC)

  • Non omnia possumus omnes.
    • Translation: "All of us cannot do everything."

  • Non scholae, sed vitae discimus.
    • Translation: "We don't learn from school but from life."

  • Non ut edam vivo, sed ut vivam edo.
    • Translation: "I don't live to eat, but I eat to live."

  • Non vestimentum virum ornat, sed vir vestimentum.
    • Translation: "Not the raiment graces the man, but the man the raiment."

  • Non vini vi no, sed vi no aquae.
  • Nondum amabam, et amare amabam.
    • Translation: "I did not love, even if I yearned to love."

  • Nosce te ipsum!
    • Translation: "Know thyself!"

  • Nulla dies sine linea.
    • Translation: "No day without a line."

  • Nulla est medicina sine lingua Latina.
    • Translation: "No medicine without Latin."

  • Nulla regula sine exceptione.
    • Translation: "No rule without exception."

  • Nulla res tam necessaria est quam medicina.
    • Translation: "Nothing is so necessary as medicine."

O

  • Oculi plus vident quam oculus.
    • Translation: "Several eyes see more than only one."

  • Omne ignotum pro magnifico.
    • Translation: "Everything unknown passes for miraculous."

  • Omnes homines sibi sanitatem cupiunt, saepe autem omnia, quae valetudini contraria sunt, faciunt.
    • Translation: "All men wish to be healthy, but often they do everything that's disadvantageous to their health."

  • Omnia mea mecum porto.
    • Translation: "All that's mine I carry with me."

  • Omnia vincit amor.
    • Translation: "Love conquers all."

  • Omnium artium medicina nobilissima est.
    • Translation: "Medicine is the noblest of all arts."

  • Optimum medicamentum quies est.
    • Translation: "Peace is the best medicine."

  • Ora et labora.
    • Translation: "Pray and work."

P

  • Pax melior est quam iustissimum bellum.
    • Translation: "Peace is better than the most just war."

  • Pecunia non olet.
    • Translation: "Money does not smell."'' (Remark by Vespasian on the plan to tax public urinals.)

  • Per ardua ad astra.
    • Translation: "Through struggle to the stars." (The motto of the Royal Air Force.

  • Per aspera ad astra.
    • Translation: "Through hardships to the stars." (The motto of .)

  • Per scientiam ad salutem aegroti.
    • Translation: "To heal the sick through knowledge."

  • Perspecite potestatem caesi.
    • Translation: "Behold the power of cheese."

  • Plenus venter non studet libenter.
    • Translation: "A full belly doesn't like studying."

  • Plures crapula quam gladius perdidit.
    • Translation: "Drunkenness takes more lives than the sword."

  • Post cenam non stare sed mille passus meare.
    • Translation: "Do not rest after dinner, but walk a mile."

  • Post hoc non est propter hoc.
    • Translation: "'After this' is not 'because of this'."

  • Praesente medico nihil nocet.
    • Translation: "In the presence of a doctor nothing can harm."

  • Praevenire melius est quam praeveniri.
    • Translation: "It is better to precede than to be preceded."

  • Primum non nocere.
    • Translation: "First, do no harm" (a physician's principle).

Q

  • Quidquid agis, prudenter agas, et respice finem!
    • Translation: "Whatever you do, may you do it prudently, and toe the line!"

  • Quidquid discis, tibi discis.
    • Translation: "Whatever you learn, you learn it for yourself."

  • Quidquid id est timeo puellas et oscula dantes.
    • Translation: "Whatever it is, I fear the girls, even when they kiss."

  • Qui rogat, non errat.
    • Translation: "Who asks isn't wrong."

  • Qui scribit, bis legit.
    • Translation: "Who writes, reads twice."

  • Qui tacet, consentire videtur.
    • Translation: "Who is silent seems to agree."

  • Qui transtulit sustinet.
    • Translation: "He who transplanted still sustains." (motto of - "He" refers to God, who transplanted them from England to the New World.)

  • Qui vult dare parva non debet magna rogare.
    • Translation: "He who wishes to give little shouldn't ask for much."

  • Quo erat demostrandom.
    • Translation: QED "It is proven to be true."

  • Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi.
    • Translation: "All that is allowed to Jupiter is not necessarily allowed to an ox."

  • Quod medicina aliis, aliis est acre venenum.
    • Translation: "One person's medicine is another's foul poison."

  • Quot capita, tot sententiae.
    • Translation: "As many opinions as people."

R

  • Repetitio est mater studiorum.
    • Translation: "Repetition is the mother of study."

  • Repetita iuvant.
    • Translation: "Repetition is useful", or "Repeating things helps".

S

  • Saepe morborum gravium exitus incerti sunt.
    • Translation: "The effects of serious illnesses are often unknown."

  • Salus aegroti suprema lex.
    • Translation: "The well-being of the patient is the most important law."

  • Sic transit gloria mundi.
    • Translation: "Thus passes the glory of the world." In Bible; repeated during the coronation of the Pope.

  • Similia similibus curantur.
    • Translation: "Like cures like."

  • Sine labore non erit panis in ore.
    • Translation: "Without work there won't be any bread in your mouth."

  • Si decem habeas linguas, mutum esse addecet.
    • Translation: "Even if you had ten tongues, you should hold them all."

  • Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.
    • Translation: "If you had kept your silence, you would have stayed a philosopher."

  • Si vis pacem, para bellum.
    • Translation: "If you want peace, prepare war."

  • Si vis pacem, para iustitiam.
    • Translation: "If you want peace, prepare justice."

  • Summum ius summa inuria.
    • Translation: "More law, less justice."

T

  • Tarde venientibus ossa.
    • Translation: "For those who come late, only the bones."

  • Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis.
    • Translation: "The times are changed, and we are changed in them."

  • Tempus Fugit.
    • Translation: "Time Flies."

  • Tres faciunt collegium.
    • Translation: "Three makes a company."

U

  • Ubi concordia, ibi victoria.
    • Translation: "Where there is harmony, there is victory."

  • Ubi fumus, ibi ignis.
    • Translation: "Where there's smoke, there's fire."

  • Ubi tu Gaius, ibi ego Gaia.
    • Translation: "Where you are, Gaius, there I, Gaia, will be.'' (This is said to have been a nuptial formula, but it is only known from Greek sources.)

  • Unum castigabis, centum emendabis.
    • Translation: "If you reprove one error, you will correct a hundred."

  • Usus magister est optimus.
    • Translation: "Practice makes perfect."

  • Ut ameris, amabilis esto.
    • Translation: "Be amiable, then you'll be loved."

  • Ut incepit fidelis, sic permanet.
    • Translation: "Loyal she began, and loyal she remains" (motto of ).

  • Ut sis nocte levis, sit cena brevis!
    • Translation: "That your sleeping hour be peaceful, let your dining hour be brief!" (Sis is one hour before sunset.)

V

  • Vae victis.
    • Translation: "Woe to the conquered."

  • Ventis secundis, tene cursum.
    • Translation: "Go with the flow."

  • Verba docent, exempla trahunt.
    • Translation: "Words instruct, illustrations lead."

  • Vincit qui patitur.
    • Translation: "He who perseveres, conquers."

  • Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit.
    • Translation: "Wise man does not urinate towards the wind."

  • Vox populi, vox dei.
    • Translation: "The voice of the people is the voice of God."

See also:
List of proverbs.


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