Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.


Titus Lucretius Carus

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You will stir up the hornets. [Lat., Irritabis crabones.]
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PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man. [Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus ...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead. [Lat., Hominum immortalis est infam...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one. [Lat., Nam imp...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
Unto the pure all things are pure.
BIBLE, TITUS 1:15
Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged--the fo...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise. . . . The scandal of men...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
Enemies carry a report in form different from the original. [Lat., Nam inimici famam non ita ut na...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense. [Lat., Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quaerit luc...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
Killing no murder.
COL. SILLIUS (SILAS) TITUS
Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough....
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. [Lat., Si quid dictum est pe...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindne...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity. [Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves. [Lat., Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
If you speak insults you will hear them also. [Lat., Contumelian si dices, audies.]
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three cont...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
Flame is very near to smoke. [Lat., Flamma fumo est proxima.]
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
The stronger always succeeds. [Lat., Plus potest qui plus valet.]
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice. [L...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudo...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home. [Lat., Quia, qui alterum i...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris, Profesto egere liceat ...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
Nothing is more wretched that the mind of a man conscious of guilt. [Lat., Nihil est miserius qua...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS)
Man naturally yearns for novelty.
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS
Let that which is wanting in income be supplied by economy.
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS
In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS
Better do nothing than do ill.
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell. [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nu...
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity. [Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS
He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment. [Lat., Q...
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS
He carries a stone in one hand, and offers bread with the other. [Lat., Altera manu fert lapidem, ...
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS
Good things soon find a purchaser.
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be li...
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS