la donna mobile (It.) Woman is fickle.

la fortune passe partout (F) Fortune passes everywhere. (「人生の起伏は誰にもある」の意)

l'amour et la fume ne peuvent se cacher (F) Love and smoke cannot be hidden.

la patience est amre mais son fruit est doux (F) Patience is bitter, but its reward is sweet.　― Rousseau.

lapis philosophorum (L) the philosophers' stone.

la povert la madre di tutte le arti (It.) Poverty is the mother of all the arts.