Latin proverbs

Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.

Neither shall the wave, which has passed on, ever be recalled; nor can the hour, which has once fled by, return again.

Treat your friends as if hereafter they will become your enemies, and your enemies as if they will become your friends.

A swarm in May is worth a load of hay; a swarm in June is worth a silver spoon; but a swarm in July is not worth a fly.

Bright enough in the dark, dull in time of day. [Learned in what is of no use, ignorant of everything at all available.]

Whose interest was it? To whose prejudice was it? [Who might expect to derive benefit, or injury, from a crime committed?]

The force which a body at rest exercises on a body in motion impinging upon it. [Stolid immobility or masterly inactivity.]

Injuries, when treated with contempt, vanish and have no effect. If you show anger their effect would appear to be acknowledged.

Anxious about the shoe, but disregarding the foot. [Careful about external appearances, but regardless of the culture of the mind.]

Him whom Jove would destroy he first deprives of his reason. [Arrogant, insolent, and vainglorious people work out their own ruin.]

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