Wise Sayings
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A picture is a poem without words.
Category: Art and creativity Source: Latin
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A word to the wise may be suffient.
Source: Latin
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Don't shoot the messenger.
Source: Latin
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Live your own life, for you will die your own death.
Category: Life and living Source: Latin
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Many meet the gods but few salute them.
Category: Courtesy and respect Source: Latin
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One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]
Source: Latin
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To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.
Source: Latin
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And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.
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Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
Source: Latin
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He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of impotence.
Source: Latin
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An uncalled-for defence becomes a positive accusation.
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Hard cases make bad law.
Source: Latin
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He confesses his guilt who flies from his trial.
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He who is first in time has the prior right.
Source: Latin
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He who sins when drunk will have to atone for it when sober.
Source: Latin
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He who takes the profit ought also to take the labour.
Source: Latin
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It is not to be argued that the abuse of a thing proves that it is useless.
Source: Latin
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No injury can be complained of by a consenting party.
Source: Latin
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No man ought to be twice tried for the same offence.
Source: Latin
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The naming of one man amounts to the exclusion of another.
Source: Latin
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What a man does by the agency of another is his own act.
Source: Latin
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I see the better course and approve of it; I follow, alas! the worse!
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I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.
Source: Latin
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I too am not powerless, and my weapons strike hard.
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Idleness ruins the constitution.
Source: Latin
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