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Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud. - [Proverbs] We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us. - [Proverbs] We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss. - [Proverbs] When you ask for it back again, you find a friend made an enemy by your own kindness. If yon begin to press still further--either you must part with that which you have entrusted, or else you must lose that friend. - [Lending] Wine is a cunning wrestler. - [Wine and Spirits] You drown him by your talk. - [Speech] You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.] - [Proverbs] You needn't remind me of that. - [Proverbs] You will not be a chip the richer. - [Proverbs] Virtue is the highest reward. Virtue truly goes before all things. Liberty, safety, life, property, parents, country, and children are protected and preserved. Virtue has all things in herself; he who has virtue has all things that are good attending him. [Lat., Virtus praemium est optimum. Virtus omnibus rebus anteit profecto. Libertas, salus, vita, res, parentes, Patria et prognati tutantur, servantur; Virtus omnia in se habet; omnia assunt bona, quem penes est vertus.] - Amphitruo (act II, 2, 17) [Virtue] You will stir up the hornets. [Lat., Irritabis crabones.] - Amphitruo (act II, 2, 75) [Contention] If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. [Lat., Si quid dictum est per jocum, Non aequum est id te serio praevortier.] - Amphitruo (III, 2, 39) [Jesting] We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus. Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.] - Amphitruo--Prologue (LXXVIII) [Merit] I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.] - Asinaria (act I, sc. 1) [Wives] Smooth words in place of gifts. [Lat., Dicta docta pro datis.] - Asinaria (act III) [Gifts] He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense. [Lat., Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quaerit lucrum.] - Asinaria (I, 3, 65) [Gain] Man is a wolf to man. [Lat., Homo homini lupus.] - Asinaria (II, 4, 88) [Man] Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.] - Asinaria (V, 1, 8) [Modesty] Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris, Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.] - Aulularia [Eating] In one had he bears a stone, with the other offers bread. [Lat., Altera manu fert lapidem, panem ostentat altera.] - Aulularia (act II, 2, 18) [Gifts] I know that we women are all justly accounted praters; they say in the present day that there never was in any age such a wonder to be found as a dumb woman. [Lat., Nam multum loquaces merito omnes habemus, Nec mutam profecto repertam ullam esse Hodie dicunt mulierem ullo in seculo.] - Aulularia (II, 1, 5) [Women] If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably. [Lat., Si animus est aequus tibi satis habes, qui bene vitam colas.] - Aulularia (II, 2, 10) [Contentment] He carries a stone in one hand, and offers bread with the other. [Lat., Altera manu fert lapidem, altera panem ostentat.] - Aulularia (II, 2, 18) [Deceit : Proverbs] I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man. [Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus est dives pauperi.] - Aulularia (II, 2, 30) [Wealth] He whom the gods favor dies in youth. - Bacchides (act 4, sc. 7, l. 18) [Death] Displaying page 4 of 8 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8
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