"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)
Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim. Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial.
To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets.
Love and dignity do not dwell together.
The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.
Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.
A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.
I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.
Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious.
How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.
The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
First try all other means, but if the wound Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean From the diseased the canker spread.
When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.
As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.
Tears at times have the weight of speech.
Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.
This also, that I live, I consider a gift of God.
The gods have their own rules.
When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.
Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth. [Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.]
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