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English	Latin
(Rely) on the words on no one. (Horace)	Nullius in verba
(With) love, behaviour, words, actions. --- Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro]	Amore, more, ore, re
a dream, fancy /foolish nonesense	somnium
a fire is difficult to ward off when the neighboring house is in flames (Ovid)	proximus a tectis ignis defenditur ægre
a fire, if neglected, always gathers in strength (Horace)	neglecta solent incendia sumere vires
a foolish fire (i.e., specious words; a will-o’-the-wisp)	ignis fatuus (pl. ignes fatui)
a great fire, unless you feed it, spends its rage in vain (Virgil)	magnus sine viribus ignis incassum furit
a poverty of words, or rather an utter want of them (Seneca)	verborum paupertas, imo egestas
Abundant laughs in the mouth of the foolish --- too much hilarity means foolishness	Risus abundat in ore stultorum
Actions, not words	Acta non verba
actions, not words	Facta, non verba
all the world plays the actor (i.e., all the world’s a stage; reputedly the words on a sign hung at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater)	totus mundus agit histrionem
an empty torrent of words (Quintilian)	inanis verborum torrens
as fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation, when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated and vanishes (Cicero)	ut ignis aquam conjectus, continuo restinguitur et refrigeratur, sic refervens falsum crimen in purissimam et castissimam vitam collatum, statim concidit et extinguitur
as the yellow gold is tested in the fire, so the faith of friendship can only be known in the time of adversity (Ovid)	scilicet, ut fulvum spectatur in ignibus aurum, tempore sic duro est inspicienda fides

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