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Group 42: Latin

568. Spes ultima dea.

569. Amicus res rara.

570. Credula res amor.

571. Res forma fugax.

572. Nulla dies sine linea.

573. Nullus dies omnino malus.

574. Animae spes optima nutrix.

575. Speculum mentis est facies.

576. Res immoderata cupido est.

577. Dum vita est, spes est.

578. In corde spes, vis, et vita.

579. Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.

580. O spes amantum credula, o fallax amor!

581. Discipulus est prioris posterior dies.

582. Dies imago vitae, nox mortis est.

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568. Hope is the last goddess. (In other words, when all the other gods have deserted you, Hope is the last one who stands by you.)

569. A friend is a rare thing. (You can find many variations on this saying such as: Amicus verus, res rara, "A true friend is a rare thing," or Amicus certus, rara avis, "A sure friend is a rare bird.")

570. Love is a credulous thing. (You can find this phrase in Ovid.)

571. Beauty is a thing that is fleeting. (You will find this phrase in Seneca's play, Phaedra.)

572. No day without a line. (You can read an essay about this saying at the AudioLatinProverbs.com blog.)

573. No day is altogether bad. (You can find this saying in Erasmus's Adagia 4.10.88.)

574. Hope is the best nurse of the soul. (You can find this motto illustrated in the emblems of Otto Vaenius.)

575. The face is the mirror of the mind. (You can find this in an epigram of Godfrey of Winchester: Est speculum mentis facies, oculique revelant / Qualia sunt intus mens animusque hominis., "The face is the mirror of the mind, and the eyes reveal what the mind and thinking of a person are inwardly.")

576. Desire is a limitless thing. (You can see this illustrated in the emblems of Jacob Cats, with an image of the dog who holds a piece of meat in his mouth, but who longs for something bigger.)

577. While there is life, there is hope. (Notice the use of Latin est to mean "there is" or "there exists," without a predicate.)

578. In the heart is hope, strength, and life. (The Latin word vis appears in only a few forms; vis is the nominative singular, with vim the accusative singular, and you will also commonly see vires the plural form, nominative and accusative.)

579. While the sick person still has breath, there is hope. (This is a phrase adapted from Cicero's letters.)

580. O the credulous hope oflovers, O deceptive love! (This is phrase from Seneca's play, Phaedra.)

581. The following day is the student of the day gone by. (You can read a brief essay about this proverb at the AudioLatinProverbs.com blog.)

582. Daytime is the image of life, night is the image of death. (I like this proverb very much, because the notion of sleep or night being the image of death is common, but here it is paired with the idea of the waking day as the image of life.)