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By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.


Titus Lucretius Carus

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TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Conquered, we conquer.
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PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS) You will stir up the hornets. [Lat., Irritabis crabones.]
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PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS) I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. [Lat., Dum ne ob male facta peream, parvi aestimo...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS) I suspect that hunger was my mother. [Lat., Famem fuisse suspicor matrem mihi.]
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PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS) You love a nothing when you love an ingrate. [Lat., Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas.]
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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...
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PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS) How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity. [Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]
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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...
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