| 01/01/year | Hic duos parietes de eadem fidelia dealbat.
He's whitewashed two walls from the same bucket.
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| 01/02/year | Gratis accepistis, gratis date.
You have taken freely; give freely.
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| 01/03/year | Animae esurienti etiam amara dulcia videntur.
To a hungry mind, even bitter things seem sweet.
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| 01/04/year | Tristitia vestra convertetur in gaudium.
Your sorrow will be turned into joy.
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| 01/05/year | Canem mortuum vel pulicem unum persequeris.
You're chasing a dead dog, or a single flea.
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| 01/06/year | Melius modicum iusto, super divitias peccatorum multas.
Better is a righteous man's little bit than the many riches of sinners.
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| 01/07/year | Excolantes culicem camelum glutiunt.
They strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.
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| 01/08/year | Novissimi primi, primi novissimi.
The first are last, and the last first.
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| 01/09/year | Non est qui faciat bonum, usque ad unum.
There is no person who does good, no, not one.
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| 01/10/year | Fermentum in farina absconditum.
The yeast is hidden in the flour.
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| 01/11/year | Asina Balaam admonet.
The donkey is warning Balaam.
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| 01/12/year | Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus.
Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus grows cold.
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| 01/13/year | De ore tuo te iudico.
By your own words I pass judgment on you.
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| 01/14/year | Hic navigat Anticyram.
He's on a journey to Anticyra.
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| 01/15/year | Pastores pascunt semetipsos.
The pastors pasture themselves.
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| 01/16/year | Hic Mysorum ultimus est.
He's a perfect example of a man from Mysia.
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| 01/17/year | Reddet deus unicuique iuxta illius opera.
God will give to each according to his works.
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| 01/18/year | Beati mundo corde.
Blessed are those with a pure heart.
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| 01/19/year | Omnes currunt, sed unus accipit bravium.
All the racers run, but just one receives the prize.
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| 01/20/year | Qui ipse sibi sapiens prodesse nequit, nequicquam sapit.
The wise man who does not know how to help himself is wise in vain.
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| 01/21/year | Asinus magis stramina vult quam aurum.
The donkey wants straw more than gold.
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| 01/22/year | Beati qui non viderunt, et crediderunt.
Blessed are those who have not seen, and believe.
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| 01/23/year | Durum est contra stimulum calcitrare.
It is hard to kick against the goad..
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| 01/24/year | Cumani sero sentiunt.
The people of Cumae got wise too late.
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| 01/25/year | Segregat oves ab haedis.
He separates the sheep from the goats.
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| 01/26/year | Sus Minervam docet.
The pig is teaching Athena.
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| 01/27/year | Vae soli.
Woe to the one who is alone.
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| 01/28/year | Repetita crambe.
It's warmed-over cabbage.
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| 01/29/year | Oculus domini in agro fertilissimus est.
The eye of the master is the best fertilizer for the field.
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| 01/30/year | Beati pacifici.
Blessed are the peace-makers.
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| 01/31/year | Ab impiis egredietur impietas.
From the wicked ones wickedness will come forth.
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| 02/01/year | Cui multum datum est, multum quaeretur ab eo.
Much is expected from him to whom much is given.
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| 02/02/year | Sicut mater, ita et filia eius.
Like the mother, so too her daughter.
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| 02/03/year | Nabis sine cortice.
You'll be swimming without a cork.
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| 02/04/year | Vade post me, Satana.
Get behind me, Satan.
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| 02/05/year | Expectavimus pacem, et ecce turbatio.
We expected peace, and behold, the whirlwind.
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| 02/06/year | Ex fructu arbor cognoscitur.
By its fruit the tree is known.
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| 02/07/year | Discendum quam diu vivas.
You should learn for as long as you live.
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| 02/08/year | Nulla dies sit sine linea.
No day without a line.
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| 02/09/year | Bis pueri senes.
Old men are boys a second time.
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| 02/10/year | Aqua haeret.
The water's stuck.
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| 02/11/year | Noli esse iustus multum.
Don't be too righteous.
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| 02/12/year | Oderint dum metuant.
Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.
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| 02/13/year | Non omnium est virorum Corinthum navigatio.
It's not for every man to make a journey to Corinth.
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| 02/14/year | Iugum meum suave est, et onus meum leve.
My yoke is sweet, and my burden light.
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| 02/15/year | Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit.
Fawning begets friends, but truth begets hatred.
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| 02/16/year | Doctrina sua nascitur vir.
A man is born through education.
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| 02/17/year | Dominus pauperem facit et ditat.
The Lord makes a man poor, and enriches.
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| 02/18/year | Numquid colligunt de spinis uvas, aut de tribulis ficus?
Surely they cannot gather grapes from thornbushes, or figs from brambles?
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| 02/19/year | Lupus est in fabula.
A wolf comes up in conversation.
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| 02/20/year | Qui arat olivetum, rogat fructum; qui stercorat, exorat; qui caedit, cogit.
He who plows the olive yard asks for the harvest; he who uses fertilizer, demands it; he who prunes, compels it.
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| 02/21/year | Filius non portabit iniquitatem patris.
The son shall not bear the burden of his father's wrong-doing.
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| 02/22/year | Capillus de capite vestro non peribit.
Not a hair from your head will perish.
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| 02/23/year | Fatuus fatua loquetur.
The fool will speak foolish things.
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| 02/24/year | Novum vinum non est mittendum in utres veteres.
New wine cannot be put into old skins.
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| 02/25/year | Diligite iustitiam, qui iudicatis terram.
Cherish justice, you who rule the land.
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| 02/26/year | Spatiosa est via, quae ducit ad perditionem.
Wide is the way which leads to destruction.
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| 02/27/year | Seminat zyzania.
He's sowing tares.
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| 02/28/year | Omnis arbor quae non facit fructum bonum excidetur.
Every tree which does not make good fruit will be cut down.
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| 02/29/year | Nihil opertum est, quod non revelabitur.
Nothing is covered which will not be revealed.
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| 03/01/year | Bonum est viro, cum portaverit iugum ab adulescentia sua.
It's good for a man when he's carried the yoke from his youth.
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| 03/02/year | Fames et mora bilem in nasum conciunt.
Hunger and having to wait stir up bile into the nose.
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| 03/03/year | In vestimentis ovium sunt lupi rapaces.
There are ravaging wolves in sheep's clothing.
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| 03/04/year | Qui parce seminat, parce et metet.
He who sows sparingly will likewise reap sparingly.
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| 03/05/year | Benedictiones mutant in maledictiones.
Blessings turn into curses.
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| 03/06/year | Est est, non non.
Yes is yes, no is no.
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| 03/07/year | Gerras clamitas.
You're shouting poppycock.
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| 03/08/year | Iniquum petendum ut aequum feras.
Seek more than what is right so that you may carry off the right amount.
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| 03/09/year | Mala ad se trahit, ut Caecias nubes.
He pulls troubles to himself, as the northeast wind draws clouds.
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| 03/10/year | Gallinaceum lac facile ibi inventu est.
There is a place where hen's milk is easily found.
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| 03/11/year | Illic trepidaverunt timore, ubi non erat timor.
There they trembled with fear, when there was no fear.
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| 03/12/year | Hic aureo hamo piscatur.
He is caught with a golden hook.
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| 03/13/year | Lachrimae crocodili.
Those are crocodile tears.
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| 03/14/year | Cognosco oves meas, et cognoscunt me meae.
I know my sheep, and my sheep know me.
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| 03/15/year | Matura satio saepe decipere solet, sera nunquam quin mala sit.
An early sowing often plays false; a late one is never anything but bad.
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| 03/16/year | Non potest abscondi civitas supra montem posita.
A city placed upon a hill cannot be hidden.
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| 03/17/year | Lucerna sub modio.
A light under a bushel.
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| 03/18/year | Cursu lampada trado.
I hand over the torch in the race.
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| 03/19/year | Ultra octoginta annos, labor et dolor.
Beyond eighty years of age, it's strain and pain.
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| 03/20/year | Scriba doctus profert de thesauro suo nova et vetera.
The scribe brings forth from his storehouse new things and old.
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| 03/21/year | Audiens sapiens sapientior erit.
The wise man who listens will be wiser.
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| 03/22/year | Tecum habita.
Live with yourself.
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| 03/23/year | Dum pluit molendum est.
When it rains, it's time to grind.
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| 03/24/year | Cyprii bovis merenda.
A supper fit for a Cyprian bull.
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| 03/25/year | Messis quidem multa, operarii autem pauci.
The harvest is great but the workers are few.
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| 03/26/year | Funiculus triplex non facile rumpitur.
A triple rope is not easily broken.
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| 03/27/year | De bono opere non lapidamus te.
For a good word we do not stone you.
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| 03/28/year | Super harenam domum aedificat.
He is building his house upon the sand.
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| 03/29/year | Caecus parietem palpat.
The blind man feels the wall.
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| 03/30/year | Quanto plus biberint, tanto plus sitient Parthi.
The more they drink, the more the Parthians thirst.
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| 03/31/year | Multi sunt vocati, pauci vero electi.
Many are called, but few are chosen.
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| 04/01/year | Qui de terra est, de terra loquitur.
He who is from the earth, speaks of the earth.
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| 04/02/year | Bonum est potius confidere in domino, quam in homine.
It's better to trust in the Lord than in man.
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| 04/03/year | Seminabis, et non metes.
You will sow, and not reap.
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| 04/04/year | Ad Calendas Graecas.
On the Greek Calends.
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| 04/05/year | Dignus es, qui in tenebris mices.
He's a worthy man, with whom you can play "Rock-Paper-Scissors" in the dark.
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| 04/06/year | Melior est vicinus iuxta, quam frater procul.
A neighbor close at hand is better than a brother far away.
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| 04/07/year | Qui non intrat per ostium in ovile, fur est et latro.
He who enters into the sheepfold not by the door is a robber and a thief.
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| 04/08/year | Non in solo pane vivit homo.
Man does not live by bread alone.
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| 04/09/year | Aequalem tibi mulierem inquire.
Seek a woman like to yourself.
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| 04/10/year | Vivorum memento.
Remember the living.
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| 04/11/year | Hirundo suscipienda non est.
You can't tame a swallow.
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| 04/12/year | Sapientia hominis lucet in vultu.
A man's wisdom shines forth in his face.
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| 04/13/year | Gallina congregat pullos suos sub alas.
The hen gathers her chicks under her wings.
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| 04/14/year | Quae dubites, ne feceris.
Do not do something you are doubtful about.
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| 04/15/year | Qui ambulat in tenebris, nescit quo vadat.
He who walks in the shadows knows not where he goes.
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| 04/16/year | Mors et vita in manibus linguae.
Life and death are in the hands of the tongue.
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| 04/17/year | Receperunt mercedem suam.
They have gotten their reward.
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| 04/18/year | Nolite dare sanctum canibus.
Don't give what is holy to the dogs.
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| 04/19/year | Omnis qui male agit, odit lucem.
Everyone who does wicked deeds hates the light.
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| 04/20/year | Caecus caecum ducit.
A blind man is leading the blind.
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| 04/21/year | Vox sanguinis clamat de terra.
The voice of the blood cries out from the earth.
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| 04/22/year | Vox populi, vox dei.
The voice of the people is the voice of God.
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| 04/23/year | Velocius quam asparagi coquantur.
Faster than cooked asparagus.
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| 04/24/year | Ut pisces hamo, ita homines beneficio capiuntur.
As fish with the hook, so are men captured by favors.
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| 04/25/year | Offeras primum pacem.
First you should offer peace.
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| 04/26/year | Canis caninam non est.
A dog does not eat dog meat.
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| 04/27/year | Contemnuntur qui nec sibi nec alteri prosunt.
Those who are no help to themselves nor to others are not worth anything.
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| 04/28/year | Date nobis de oleo vestro, quia lampades nostrae extinguntur.
Given to us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.
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| 04/29/year | Fortes fortuna adiuvat.
Fortune aids those who have fortitude.
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| 04/30/year | Festucam in alterius oculo vides, in tuo trabem non vides.
You see a bit of straw in another's eye, but you do not see the log in your eye.
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| 05/01/year | Quod supras nos, nihil ad nos.
What is above us does not concern us.
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| 05/02/year | Hylam vocat.
He's calling out to Hylas.
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| 05/03/year | Non nobis solum nati sumus.
We are not born for ourselves alone.
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| 05/04/year | Cibus alienis dentibus molitus nauseosus est.
Food chewed by other people's teeth is nauseating.
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| 05/05/year | Quod scripsi, scripsi.
What I have written, I have written.
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| 05/06/year | Maria montesque promittit.
He promises seas and mountains.
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| 05/07/year | Vae terrae, cuius rex puer est.
Woe to the land whose king is a boy.
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| 05/08/year | Responsio mollis frangit iram.
A gentle response shatters anger.
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| 05/09/year | Semen in terram bonam cecidit.
He has cast his seed into the good earth.
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| 05/10/year | Harenam mensuras.
You're measuring sand.
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| 05/11/year | Novissimus error peior priore.
The latest error is worse than the one before.
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| 05/12/year | Numquid aufertur laqueus de terra, antequam quid ceperit?
Surely no snare is removed from the ground before it has caught something?
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| 05/13/year | Nemo propheta acceptus est in patria.
No prophet is accepted in his homeland.
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| 05/14/year | Anima pro anima, oculus pro oculo.
Life for a life, eye for an eye.
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| 05/15/year | Pastor bonus animam suam dat pro ovibus.
The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.
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| 05/16/year | Sufficit sua diei malitia.
Sufficient unto the day are its own troubles.
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| 05/17/year | Arbor bona fructus bonos facit.
A good tree makes good fruits.
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| 05/18/year | Arcta est via, quae ducit ad vitam.
Narrow is the way which leads to life.
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| 05/19/year | Si quis non vult operari, non manducet.
If someone does not want to work, let him not eat.
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| 05/20/year | Arundo vento agitata.
The reed is tossed by the wind.
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| 05/21/year | Iupiter non cantat, nec citharam pulsat.
Jupiter does not sing, and he does not pluck the strings of the lute.
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| 05/22/year | Dignus est operarius cibo suo.
The worker is worthy of his food.
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| 05/23/year | Facti sunt amici Herodes et Pilatus.
Herod and Pilate became friends.
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| 05/24/year | Salva res est saltante sene.
Things are safe if the old man leaps.
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| 05/25/year | Requiesce, comede, bibe, epulare.
Rest, eat, drink, party!
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| 05/26/year | Annus fructificat, non tellus.
The year brings the harvest, not the land.
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| 05/27/year | Corvus relictis ab aquila cadaveribus vescitur.
The crow feeds on the corpses left by the eagle.
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| 05/28/year | Lupum auribus teneo.
I've got the wolf by the ears.
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| 05/29/year | Quod natum est ex spiritu, spiritus est.
What is born from spirit, is spirit.
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| 05/30/year | Plus Federicus uno oculo vidit quam caeteri principes duobus.
Frederick sees more with one eye than the other princes see with two.
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| 05/31/year | Communia amicorum sunt inter se omnia.
Friends' things belong to each other in common.
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| 06/01/year | Plus valet bonum nomen, quam divitiae multae.
A good name is worth more than many riches.
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| 06/02/year | Non tentabis dominum deum tuum.
You will not test the Lord your god.
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| 06/03/year | Noctuas Athenas portat.
He's carrying owls to Athens.
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| 06/04/year | Non omnes homines sunt homines;non omnes episcopi sunt episcopi.
Not all men are men; not all bishops are bishops.
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| 06/05/year | Sagena ex omni genere piscium congregat.
The dragnet pulls together all kinds of fish.
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| 06/06/year | Qui se humiliaverit, exaltabitur.
He who humbles himself will be exalted.
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| 06/07/year | Omnia tempus habent.
All things have their time.
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| 06/08/year | Mutuum muli scabunt.
One mule scratches another.
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| 06/09/year | Qui se exaltaverit, humiliabitur.
He who exalts himself will be humbled.
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| 06/10/year | Acta agis.
You're doing what's been done.
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| 06/11/year | Vinum potantem decipit.
Wine deceives the drinker.
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| 06/12/year | Gladii in vomeres.
Swords into ploughshares.
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| 06/13/year | Omnia licent, sed non omnia expediunt.
All things are allowed, but all things are not productive.
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| 06/14/year | Multa cadunt inter calicem supremaque labra.
Many things fall between the cup and the tip of the lip.
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| 06/15/year | Hic cingulum Herculaneo nodo vinctum solvit.
He's loosened the belt tied with the knot of Hercules.
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| 06/16/year | Cum mortuis non nisi larvae luctantur.
None but ghosts wrestle with the dead.
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| 06/17/year | Omnes sibi melius malunt quam alteri.
Everyone wants better for himself than for another.
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| 06/18/year | Cervus ad sagittam properat.
The deer rushes into the arrow.
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| 06/19/year | Dei laneos pedes habent.
The gods have feet of wool.
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| 06/20/year | Qui ignorat ignorabitur.
He who is ignorant will be ignorant in the future.
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| 06/21/year | Frustra iacitur rete ante oculos pennatorum.
In vain is the net cast when the birds are watching.
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| 06/22/year | Non rugit onager, cum herbam habet.
The wild donkey does not bray when he has grass.
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| 06/23/year | Felix qui nihil debet.
Happy is the man who has no debts.
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| 06/24/year | Vita hominis militia est.
Man's life is soldiering.
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| 06/25/year | Nolite solliciti esse in crastinum.
Don't worry about tomorrow.
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| 06/26/year | Rana Seryphia.
It's a frog from Seriphos.
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| 06/27/year | Iam securis ad radicem arboris posita est.
Already the axe is poised at the root of the tree.
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| 06/28/year | Beatum est potius dare quam recipere.
It is more blessed to give than to take.
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| 06/29/year | Multi modii salis cum amicis edendi sunt.
Many a peck of salt must be eaten with friends.
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| 06/30/year | Hic habet faenum in cornu.
He's got straw on his horn.
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| 07/01/year | Honores mutant mores.
Honors change habits.
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| 07/02/year | Aliquid mali est propter vicinum malum.
Something bad results from having a bad neighbor.
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| 07/03/year | In laqueo quem absconderunt, comprehensus est spes eorum.
In the snare which they concealed was their own hope captured.
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| 07/04/year | A fructibus eorum cognoscetis eos.
From their fruits you will know them.
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| 07/05/year | Pupilla oculi nobis carius.
The pupil of the eye is more dear to us.
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| 07/06/year | Vos estis sal terrae, lux mundi.
You are the salt of the earth.
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| 07/07/year | Semper aliquid novi affert Africa.
Africa always brings forth something new.
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| 07/08/year | Num et Saul inter prophetas?
Surely that is not Saul among the prophets?
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| 07/09/year | Sapientia vino obumbratur.
Wisdom is overshadowed by wine.
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| 07/10/year | Ad vivum non reseco.
I don't cut to the quick.
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| 07/11/year | Comedes, et non saturaberis.
You will eat, and you will not get your fill.
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| 07/12/year | Somniat sitiens, et bibit.
The thirsty man sleeps, and drinks.
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| 07/13/year | Mendaces Cretenses.
The Cretans are liars.
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| 07/14/year | Navigat usque ad Phasim.
He's sailing all the way to the Phasis.
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| 07/15/year | Abyssus abyssum invocat.
One abyss summons another.
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| 07/16/year | Extremus actus abest.
The final act is yet to come.
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| 07/17/year | Qui altam facit domum, quaerit suam ruinam.
He who builds a high house seeks his own downfall.
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| 07/18/year | Fallax equus ad salutem.
A horse is no guarantee of rescue.
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| 07/19/year | Fundum alienum arat, incultum familiarem deserit.
He ploughs another's farmland, and leaves his family farm untended.
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| 07/20/year | Nonne duodecim sunt horae diei?
Are there not twelve hours in the day?
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| 07/21/year | In domo patris mei, mansiones multae sunt.
In my father's house, there are many mansions.
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| 07/22/year | Malus homo de malo thesauro profert mala.
A bad man brings forth bad things from his bad storehouse.
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| 07/23/year | Nec omnia, nec passim, nec ab omnibus.
Not all things, not everywhere, and not from everybody.
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| 07/24/year | Bene plaustrum perculit.
He's given the cart a good shove.
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| 07/25/year | Nemo suis stipendiis militat.
No one soldiers without a salary.
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| 07/26/year | Indocti a Musis atque Gratiis absint.
Let those who are not learned stay away from the Muses and Graces.
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| 07/27/year | Unusquisque in vocatione in qua vocatus est, in ea permaneat.
Let each one persist in the vocation to which he has been called.
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| 07/28/year | Argento obediunt omnia.
All things obey the coin.
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| 07/29/year | Non sine Theseo.
Not without Theseus's help.
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| 07/30/year | Quo non pervenit leonis pellis, vulpina assuenda est.
Where the lion skin does not reach, sew on the fox skin.
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| 07/31/year | Tua verba gerrae sunt.
Your words are fiddlesticks.
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| 08/01/year | Ovem lupo commisisti.
You've turned your sheep over to the wolf.
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| 08/02/year | Dum tempus habemus, operemur bonum.
While we have time, let us do good.
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| 08/03/year | Non alligabis os bovi trituranti.
Don't bind shut the mouth of the threshing ox.
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| 08/04/year | Diligentibus deum omnia cooperantur in bonum.
For those who love the Lord, all things work together for the good.
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| 08/05/year | Qui festinat ditescere, non erit innocens.
He who is in a hurry to get rich will not stay innocent.
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| 08/06/year | Dominus dedit, Dominus abstulit.
The Lord has given; the Lord has taken away.
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| 08/07/year | Nullum cibi genus saccharo non conditur.
There's no type of food which cannot be sweetened with sugar.
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| 08/08/year | Fugit impius nemine persequente.
The wicked man flees even when no one pursues him.
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| 08/09/year | Qui seminat ventum, turbinem metet.
He who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind.
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| 08/10/year | Anseres inter olores strepunt.
The geese are squawking amidst the swans.
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| 08/11/year | Multae sub tegulis cubant noctuae.
Many owls sleep under the roof tiles.
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| 08/12/year | Homo bulla est.
Man is a bubble.
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| 08/13/year | Non est vestrum nosse tempora, vel momenta.
It is not for you to know the times, nor the tides.
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| 08/14/year | Et mea omnia tua sunt, et tua mea sunt.
All my things are yours, and yours are mine.
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| 08/15/year | Si claudo vicinus habitaveris, et ipse claudus.
If you live next door to a lame man, you yourself will be lame.
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| 08/16/year | Sero sapiunt Phryges.
The Phrygians are wise too late.
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| 08/17/year | Granum frumenti mortuum multum affert fructum.
The seed of grain, when it dies, brings forth a great harvest.
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| 08/18/year | Iudas non dormit.
Judas does not sleep.
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| 08/19/year | Ille Uriae literas perfert.
He's carrying the letter of Uriah.
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| 08/20/year | Reddite quae sunt Caesaris Caesari, et quae sunt Dei Deo.
Give to Caesar what is Caesars and to God what is God's.
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| 08/21/year | Qui gladio ferit, gladio perit.
He who wounds by the sword dies by the sword.
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| 08/22/year | Qualis pater, talis filius.
As the father, so the son.
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| 08/23/year | Desine iam demens saevum stimulare leonem.
Madmen, stop stirring up the savage lion.
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| 08/24/year | Medice cura teipsum.
Physician, heal yourself.
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| 08/25/year | Malum consilium consultori pessimum est.
Bad advice turns out worst for the advisor.
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| 08/26/year | Romanus sedendo vincit.
By sitting still, the Roman wins.
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| 08/27/year | Ubi est thesaurus tuus, ibi est et cor tuum.
Where is your treasure, there is your heart also.
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| 08/28/year | Conscientia mille testes.
Your conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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| 08/29/year | Hic perierat, et inventus est.
He has been lost, and is found.
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| 08/30/year | Idem Accii quod Titii.
As for Accius, so for Titius.
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| 08/31/year | Mature fias senex, si diu velis esse senex.
If you want to be old for a long time, get old early.
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| 09/01/year | Ex abundantia cordis os loquitur.
From the overflowing of the heart the mouth speaks.
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| 09/02/year | Thesaurus in agro absconditus.
A treasure is hidden in the field.
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| 09/03/year | Inter os et offam multum interest.
Much can happen between the morsel and the mouth.
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| 09/04/year | Quod facis, fac citius.
What you do, do quickly.
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| 09/05/year | Das assem elephanto.
You're giving a penny to an elephant.
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| 09/06/year | Satius est subire semel quam cavere semper.
It's better to suffer something once than to always be on guard.
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| 09/07/year | Spiritus promptus, caro vero infirma.
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
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| 09/08/year | Incidit in foveam, quam fecit.
He fell into the pit which he had made.
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| 09/09/year | Qui non est mecum, contra me est.
He who is not with me is against me.
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| 09/10/year | Inimici hominis domestici eius.
A man's servants are his enemies.
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| 09/11/year | Fuimus Troes.
We were the Trojans.
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| 09/12/year | Caritas perfecta foras mittit timorem.
Perfect love drives fear out of doors.
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| 09/13/year | Habitat lupus cum agno.
The wolf dwells with the lamb.
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| 09/14/year | Non est opus valentibus medico.
People who are well have no need of a doctor.
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| 09/15/year | Scuto pacem petunt.
They seek peace with a shield.
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| 09/16/year | Cum sancto sanctus eris, cum perverso perverteris.
With the holy man you will be holy; with the wicked man you will be wicked.
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| 09/17/year | Delatores qui non castigat, irritat.
He who does not rebuke informers, incites them.
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| 09/18/year | Aut bibat, aut abeat.
Let him either drink, or depart.
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| 09/19/year | In qua mensura mensi fueritis metientur vobis alii.
Others will measure out for you with the measure with which you have measured.
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| 09/20/year | Omne regnum contra se divisum desolabitur.
Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste.
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| 09/21/year | Nihil sacrum.
Nothing is sacred.
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| 09/22/year | Cupressum scis simulare.
You know how to imitate a cypress.
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| 09/23/year | Numquid aliquis panem petenti lapidem porriget?
Surely no one reaches out a stone to someone seeking bread?
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| 09/24/year | Hilarem datorem diligit deus.
God loves someone who gives cheerfully.
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| 09/25/year | Iacta est alea.
The die is cast.
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| 09/26/year | Non est bonum sumere panem filiorum, et mittere canibus.
It is not good to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.
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| 09/27/year | Sisyphium portas saxum.
You're carrying the rock of Sisyphus.
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| 09/28/year | Fortitudo in nervum erumpit.
This act of valor will land you in jail.
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| 09/29/year | Cecinimus vobis, et non saltastis.
We sang for you, and you did not dance.
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| 09/30/year | Ait latro ad latronem.
One thief is speaking to another.
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| 10/01/year | Beati pauperes spiritu.
Blessed are the poor in spirit.
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| 10/02/year | Tantale poculum bibemus.
We will drink the cup of Tantalus.
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| 10/03/year | Spiritus ubi vult spirat.
The spirit blows where it will.
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| 10/04/year | Alius est qui seminat, et alius qui metit.
It is one who sows, and another who reaps.
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| 10/05/year | Canis revertitur ad vomitum.
The dog comes back to its vomit.
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| 10/06/year | Quod natum est ex carne, caro est.
What is born from flesh is flesh.
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| 10/07/year | Homo homini deus.
Man is a god to man.
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| 10/08/year | Oportet mendacem esse memorem.
A liar must have a good memory.
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| 10/09/year | Capilli capitis vestri omnes numerati sunt.
All the hairs of your head are numbered.
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| 10/10/year | Optimum est aliena frui insania.
The best thing is to profit from someone else's madness.
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| 10/11/year | Boni pastoris est tondere pecus, non deglubere.
The good shepherd fleeces the flock; he does not flay it.
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| 10/12/year | Iustitia in sese virtutes continet omnes.
Justice contains in itself all the virtues.
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| 10/13/year | Grex saginatur ad victimam.
The flock is fattened for the slaughter.
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| 10/14/year | Telas aranearum texit.
He is weaving spider's webs.
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| 10/15/year | Iota unum, aut unus apex non praeteribit.
Not one joy nor one tittle will pass away.
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| 10/16/year | Loquela tua te manifestum facit.
Your speech reveals you plainly.
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| 10/17/year | Leo est foris, leaena est in itineribus.
There's a lion outside, there's a lioness in the streets.
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| 10/18/year | Estote prudentes sicut serpentes, et simplices sicut columbae.
Be wise like serpents, and be simple like doves.
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| 10/19/year | Divitiae si affluant, nolite cor apponere.
If riches abound, do not set your heart on them.
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| 10/20/year | Figulus ollis ansas ponit.
It is the potter who puts ears on the jugs.
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| 10/21/year | Altera manu panem ostentat, altera fert lapidem.
With one hand he holds out bread, in the other he carries a stone.
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| 10/22/year | Si Deus pro nobis, quis contra nos?
If God is for us, who is against us?
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| 10/23/year | Vive moribus praeteritis, loquere verbis praesentibus.
Live by the habits of the past, speak with the words of the present.
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| 10/24/year | Asinus ad lyram.
The donkey listens to the lyre.
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| 10/25/year | Ubi mel, ibi fel.
Where there's honey, there's bile.
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| 10/26/year | Video ursam parientem.
I see a she-bear giving birth.
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| 10/27/year | Melior est mors, quam vita amara.
Better is death than a life which is bitter.
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| 10/28/year | Lusciniae non deest cantio.
The nightingale has no lack of song.
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| 10/29/year | Evenit illi quod Polluci.
He suffered the fate of Pollux.
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| 10/30/year | Una hirundo non facit ver.
One swallow does not make a spring.
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| 10/31/year | Nihil invita Minerva facies.
You will not accomplish anything if Minerva is unwilling.
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| 11/01/year | Argentum versum est in scoriam.
The silver has been turned into dross.
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| 11/02/year | Immisi fontibus apros.
I've let boars into the springs.
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| 11/03/year | Ubi amici ibi opes.
Where there are friends, there are resources.
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| 11/04/year | In Samo lac gallinae.
There's hen's milk in Samos.
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| 11/05/year | Dei facientes adiuvant.
The gods help those who are doers.
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| 11/06/year | Homo frugi omnia recte facit.
A worthy man does all things well.
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| 11/07/year | Veritas liberabit.
The truth will set you free.
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| 11/08/year | O domus antiqua heu quam dispari domino disparis.
Oh, old house, how unlike your present master to the one before.
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| 11/09/year | Labores manuum tuarum manducabis.
You will eat the works of your hands.
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| 11/10/year | Homo ad laborem nascitur.
Man is born to labor.
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| 11/11/year | Pullus de nido avolat.
The chick flies away from the nest.
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| 11/12/year | Adulterinae plantae non dabunt radices altas.
Hybrid plants will not produce deep roots.
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| 11/13/year | Percutiam pastorem, et dispergentur oves gregis.
I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be dispersed.
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| 11/14/year | Nemo potest dominis simul inservire duobus.
No man can serve two masters at once.
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| 11/15/year | Dimittite mortuos sepelire mortuos suos.
Leave the dead to bury their dead.
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| 11/16/year | Fallacia alia aliam trudit.
One trick supplants another.
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| 11/17/year | Davus sum, non Oedipus.
I am Davus, not Oedipus.
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| 11/18/year | Egregia musica quae sit abscondita, nulli rei est.
Outstanding music, if it is hidden, is of no account.
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| 11/19/year | Acti labores iucundi sunt.
Work, once done, is pleasant.
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| 11/20/year | Non omnibus dormio.
I'm not asleep to everything.
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| 11/21/year | Totidem nobis hostes esse, quot servos.
We have as many enemies as we have servants.
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| 11/22/year | Gladiator in harena consilium capit.
The gladiator tries to make a plan in the arena.
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| 11/23/year | Leoni mortuo barbam vellis.
You're plucking the beard of a dead lion.
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| 11/24/year | Hic timens Charybdim, incidi in Scyllam.
Fearing Charybdis, I fell into Scylla.
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| 11/25/year | Ede nasturtium.
Eat some watercress!
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| 11/26/year | Pirum vulpes comedit.
The fox eats the pear.
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| 11/27/year | Transivimus per ignem et aquam.
We have passed through fire and water.
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| 11/28/year | Saepe etiam est olitor valde opportuna locutus.
Even a gardener often speaks very much to the point.
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| 11/29/year | Dissipa gentes, quae bella volunt.
Scatter the nations who want wars.
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| 11/30/year | Sua cuique ars pro viatico est.
Each one's skills are like a shortcut along the way.
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| 12/01/year | Talis hominum oratio, qualis vita.
As a man's speech, so is his life.
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| 12/02/year | Lux in tenebris lucet.
A light shines in the darkness.
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| 12/03/year | Epimenidis somnum edormit.
He's sleeping the sleep of Epimenides.
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| 12/04/year | Difficilia honesta sunt.
Honorable things are hard to accomplish.
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| 12/05/year | Scientia inflat.
Knowledge expands.
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| 12/06/year | Homo sapiens tacebit usque ad tempus.
A man who is wise will be silent until the right time.
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| 12/07/year | Semen in petras cecidit.
He has cast his seed among the stones.
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| 12/08/year | Catelli edunt micas quae cadunt de mensa dominorum suorum.
The puppies eat the crumbs which fall from the table of their masters.
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| 12/09/year | Singula regio habet suos cantus.
Each region has its own songs.
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| 12/10/year | Lutum contra figulum cogitat.
The clay plots against the potter.
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| 12/11/year | Nilum habetis et vinum quaeritis.
You've got the Nile, and you're looking for wine.
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| 12/12/year | Date et dabitur vobis, dimittite et dimittemini.
Give and it will be given to you; forgive, and you will be forgiven.
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| 12/13/year | Vigilate, quia nescitis diem neque horam.
Be watchful, for you do not know the day nor the hour.
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| 12/14/year | Leges bonae ex malis moribus procreantur.
Good laws are born of bad habits.
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| 12/15/year | Iacta super dominum curam tuam, et ipse te enutriet.
Cast your worries upon the Lord and he will nourish you.
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| 12/16/year | Teneto te intra pelliculam.
Contain yourself within your own skin.
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| 12/17/year | Ferrum ferro acuitur.
Iron is sharpened with iron.
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| 12/18/year | Lerna malorum.
It's a Lerna of troubles.
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| 12/19/year | Fodere non valeo, mendicare erubesco.
I haven't the strength to dig; I am ashamed to beg.
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| 12/20/year | Nolite iudicare secundum faciem.
Don't judge based on appearances.
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| 12/21/year | Maledictus homo qui confidit in homine.
Cursed is the man who puts his trust in a man.
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| 12/22/year | Patres comederunt uvam acerbam, et dentes filiorum obstupuerunt.
The fathers eat the bitter grape, and the teeth of their sons grow numb.
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| 12/23/year | Expedit, ut mola asinaria alligetur ad collum eius.
He deserves to have the donkey's millstone tied to his neck.
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| 12/24/year | Cui datur spatium datur vita.
To whom time is given, life is given.
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| 12/25/year | Bonus homo de bono thesauro profert bona.
A good man brings forth good things from his good storehouse.
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| 12/26/year | Haec sunt initia dolorum.
These are the beginnings of our sorrows.
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| 12/27/year | Montes transfert.
He's moving mountains.
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| 12/28/year | Corrumpunt bonos mores mala colloquia.
Bad associations ruin good characters.
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| 12/29/year | Summum ius summa iniuria.
The height of justice is the height of injustice.
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| 12/30/year | Omnia probate, quod bonum est, tenete.
Try all things; what is good, keep.
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| 12/31/year | Omnis homo mendax.
Every man is a liar.
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