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Proverbs
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[ Also see Catchphrases Laws of Life and Nature Old Sayings Proverbial Phrases Proverbs (General) ]

What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.
      - Legal Maxim

Who loves me loves my dog.
  [Fr., Qui m'aime il aime mon chien.]
    [Lat., Qui me amat, amat et canem meam.]
      - Antoine Jean Victor Le Roux de Lincy,
        French Proverbs, 13th century

Facts are stubborn things.
      - Alain Rene Le Sage, Gil Blas
         (bk. X, ch. I), (Smollet's translation)

Though this may be play to you,
  'Tis death to us.
      - Sir Roger L'Estrange, Fables (398)

Bad beginnings, bad endings.
      - Titus Livy

By flying, men often rush into the midst of calamities.
      - Titus Livy

Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
      - Titus Livy

Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
      - Titus Livy

My sun has not yet set for ever.
      - Titus Livy

Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
      - Titus Livy

Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money.
      - Titus Livy

Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.
      - Titus Livy

That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
      - Titus Livy

Better late than never.
  [Lat., Potius sero quam nunquam.]
      - Titus Livy IV, II, 11

A life of honour and of worth
  Has no eternity on earth,--
    'Tis but a name.
      - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.
      - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Behold of what delusive worth
  The bubbles we pursue on earth,
    The shapes we chase.
      - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Into each life some rain must fall,
  Some days must be dark and dreary.
      - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Know how sublime a thing it is
  To suffer and be strong.
      - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Labour with what zeal we will,
  Something still remains undone,
    Something uncompleted still
      Waits the rising of the sun.
      - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life like an empty dream flits by.
      - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

No endeavour is in vain;
  Its reward is in the doing.
      - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Something attempted, something done
  Has earned a night's repose.
      - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Swiftly our pleasures glide away,
  Our hearts recall the distant day
    With many sighs.
      - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The mighty pyramids of stone
  That wedge-like cleave the desert airs,
    When nearer seen, and better known,
      Are but gigantic flights of stairs.
      - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We have not wings, we cannot soar,
  But we have feet to scale and climb
    By slow degrees, by more and more,
      The cloudy summits of our time.
      - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
  And out hearts, though stout and brave,
    Still, like muffled drums, are beating
      Funeral marches to the grave.
      - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
        A Psalm of Life (st. 4)

Still achieving, still pursuing,
  Learn to labour and to wait.
      - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
        A Psalm of Life (st. 9)

There's luck in odd numbers.
      - Samuel Lover

But civlyzation doos git forrid
  Sometimes upon a powder-cart.
      - James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers
         (series I, no. 7)

A crime in which many are implicated goes unpunished.
      - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)

Avoid delays: procrastination always does harm.
      - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)

Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring.
      - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)

Great things rush to the destruction of each other.
      - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)

He puts his boot on his head, and his foot in his helmet.
      - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)

He stands the shadow of a mighty name.
  [Lat., Stat magni nominis umbra.]
      - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)

Idleness induces caprice.
      - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)

Patience revels in misfortunes.
      - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)

Regarding nothing as done, while ought remained to be done.
      - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)

The apprehension of approaching evil has hurried many into the utmost danger.
      - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)

The shadow of a mighty name.
      - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)

Villany reduces those whom it defiles to the same level.
      - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)

Who will think that the gods can be insulted with impunity?
      - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)

With bated breath we offer wicked vows.
      - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan)

He rejoices to have made his way by ruin of others.
  [Lat., Gaudensque viam fecisse ruina.]
      - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan), Pharsalia
         (I, 150)

From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
      - Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)

Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
      - Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)

Such crimes has superstition caused.
      - Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)

'Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
      - Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
      - Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)


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