Reddere personæ scit convenientia cuique—He 40 knows how to assign to each character what it is proper for him to think and say. Hor., of a dramatic poet.
Reddere qui voces jam scit puer, et pede certo / Signat humum, gestit paribus colludere, et iram / Colligit ac ponit temere, et mutatur in horas—The boy who just knows how to talk and treads the ground with firm foot, delights to play with his mates, is easily provoked and easily appeased, and changes every hour. Hor.
Rede wenig, rede wahr. Zehre wenig, zahle baar—Speak little, speak true. Spend little, pay cash down. Ger. Pr.
Redeat miseris, abeat fortuna superbis—May fortune revisit the wretched, and forsake the proud! Hor.
Reden ist Silber und Schweigen ist Gold—Speech is silver and silence is gold. Old Ger. Pr.
Reden kommt von Natur, Schweigen vom 45 Verstande—Speaking comes from nature, silence from discretion. Ger. Pr.
Redeunt Saturnia regna—The golden age (lit. the reign of Saturn) is returning.
Redit agricolis labor actus in orbem, / Atque in se sua per vestigia volvitur annus—The husbandman's toil returns in a circle, and the year rolls round in its former footsteps. Virg.
Redlichkeit gedeiht in jedem Stande—Honesty prospers in every condition of life. Schiller.
Reductio ad absurdum—A reduction of an adversary's conclusion to an absurdity.