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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
PLAUTUS The day, water, sun, moon, night -- I do not have to purchase these things with money.
PLAUTUS Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
PLAUTUS No man is wise enough by himself.
PLAUTUS Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
PLAUTUS Ones oldest friend is the best.
PLAUTUS What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
PLAUTUS A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.
PLAUTUS Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talker...
PLAUTUS This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
PLAUTUS If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
PLAUTUS One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with d...
PLAUTUS It is easy to rule over the good.
PLAUTUS One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
PLAUTUS To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
PLAUTUS 'He means well' is useless unless he does well.
PLAUTUS No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.
PLAUTUS Laws are subordinate to custom.
PLAUTUS There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
PLAUTUS The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
PLAUTUS In everything the middle course is best; all things in excess bring trouble.
PLAUTUS I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while ...
PLAUTUS Courage in danger is half the battle.
PLAUTUS No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
PLAUTUS Conquered, we conquer.
PLAUTUS Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
PLAUTUS Let deeds match words.
PLAUTUS Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
PLAUTUS Persevere in virtue and diligence.
PLAUTUS Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
PLAUTUS Where there are friends there is wealth.
PLAUTUS The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
PLAUTUS Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.
PLAUTUS A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
PLAUTUS Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
PLAUTUS You must spend money to make money.
PLAUTUS For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.
PLAUTUS Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
PLAUTUS Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
PLAUTUS A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
PLAUTUS The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
PLAUTUS Flight without feathers is not easy.
PLAUTUS Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.
PLAUTUS Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
PLAUTUS Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
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PLAUTUS He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
PLAUTUS I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
PLAUTUS How great in number are the little minded men.
PLAUTUS For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.
PLAUTUS I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while ...
PLAUTUS Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and chil...
PLAUTUS Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of D...
PLAUTUS Homo homini lupis est.
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PLAUTUS He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell. [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nu...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS) Woe to the vanquished! [Lat., Vae victis.]
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS) It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you. [Lat., Miserum est ...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS) Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-f...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS) He is of the race of the mushroom; he covers himself altogether with his head. [Lat., Fungino gen...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS) You will stir up the hornets. [Lat., Irritabis crabones.]
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS) The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb. [Lat., Nunquam ae...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS) To love is human, it is also human to forgive. [Lat., Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere e...
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.]
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS) If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most. [Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis ...
PLAUTUS (TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS) You love a nothing when you love an ingrate. [Lat., Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas.]
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) 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) 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 Fire is next akin to smoke.
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS A mouse relies not solely on one hole.
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS A man of three letters, " F U R."
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TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Persevere in virtue and diligence.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS It well becomes a young man to be modest.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Not every age is fit for childish sports.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS No man is wise enough by himself.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Speak no evil of an absent friend.
(Non male loquare absenti amico)
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Practice yourself what you preach.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS The evil that we know is best.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS I am always afraid of your "something shall be done."
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS A word to the wise is enough.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS You must spend money to make money
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS How great in number are the little minded men
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and chil...
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talker...
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Conquered, we conquer.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS No blessing lasts forever
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS