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Group 80: Latin

1048. Amicus amicum adiuvat.

1049. Asinus asinum fricat.

1050. Asinus asellum culpat.

1051. Abyssus abyssum invocat.

1052. Vento navigat suo.

1053. Dat verba in ventos.

1054. In saxis seminat.

1055. Frenis saepe repugnat equus.

1056. Inter pygmaeos regnat nanus.

1057. In oculis animus habitat.

1058. Non curat numerum lupus.

1059. Vix distat summus ab imo.

1060. Multos lucrum non divitat, sed pauperat.

1061. Iucundum est narrare sua mala.

1062. Errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum.

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1048. Friend helps friend. (To use a more familiar English idiom, you could also translate this as "one friend helps another.")

1049. Donkey scratches donkey. (You can read more about this saying at AudioLatinProverbs.com.)

1050. The donkey blames the ass. (You can read more about this saying at AudioLatinProverbs.com.)

1051. One abyss summons another. (You can read more about this saying at AudioLatinProverbs.com.)

1052. He sails by his own wind. (You can read more about this saying at AudioLatinProverbs.com.)

1053. He's pouring words into the winds. (You can read more about this saying at AudioLatinProverbs.com.)

1054. He's sowing among stones. (You can find this saying in Erasmus's Adagia, 1.4.54.)

1055. The horse often fights back against the reins. (You can read more about this saying at AudioLatinProverbs.com.)

1056. Among the pygmies, the dwarf rules. (You can read more about this saying at AudioLatinProverbs.com.)

1057. The soul dwells in the eyes. (You can read more about this saying at AudioLatinProverbs.com.)

1058. The wolf does not care about the number. (You can read more about this saying at AudioLatinProverbs.com.)

1059. The top is scarcely different from the bottom. (This is a Whittaker family motto.)

1060. Gain does not enrich many people, but impoverishes them. (The Latin word lucrum gives us the English word "lucre," which has negative connotations, "filty lucre," more greed than gain.)

1061. It is pleasant to tell your troubles. (The paradox, of course, is the juxtaposition of iucundum and mala.)

1062. To err is human, to keep on erring is diabolical. (The more famous form of this saying is Errare humanum est; ignoscere divinum, "to err is human, to forgive divine.")