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Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.


Titus Lucretius Carus

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TITUS LIVY Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. [Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad sua...
TITUS LIVY In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.
TITUS LIVY We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Not every age is fit for childish sports.
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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.
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TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS I am always afraid of your "something shall be done."
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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
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TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
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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 ...
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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...
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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) 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.]
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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!]
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...
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