2105 Latin Proverbs / Page 95
1881.
We have all been fools in our time.1882.
We judge of the present from the past.1883.
We learn the value of things more in their loss than in their enjoyment.1884.
We lessen our wants by lessening our desires.1885.
We live more by fashion than common sense.1886.
We lose the certain things, while we seek the uncertain ones.1887.
We must live as we can, not as we would wish.1888.
We must not expect everything, everywhere, and from everybody.1889.
We need not friends if Providence smiles on us.1890.
We never profit by the gifts of the wicked.1891.
We pardon faults in youth.1892.
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.1893.
We perish by permitted things.1894.
We receive nothing with so much reluctance as advice.1895.
We shall never be younger.1896.
We should eat to live, not live to eat.1897.
We should trust more to our eyesight than to our ears.1898.
We sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind.1899.
We start to die when we are born, and the end depends on the beginning.1900.
We trust what we see rather than what we hear.