This is the great evil in wine, it first seizes the feet; it is a cunning wrestler.
[Lat., Magnum hoc vitium vino est,
Pedes captat primum; luctator dolosu est.]
To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
[Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]
Our country is wherever we are well off.
[Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]
It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man."
[Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]
It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
[Lat., Nimia est miseria nimis pulchrum esse hominem.]
But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow.
[Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.]
A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.
[Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]
People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.
Haste is slow.
[Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]
Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
[Lat., E malis multis, malum, quod minimum est, id minimum est malum.]
Now, that's enough.
[Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]
To have nothing is not poverty.
[Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
Giving requires good sense.
[Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]
Everything unknown is magnified.
[Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]
Habit is stronger than nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]