Plautus
Good things soon find a purchaser.Collection: Good Things
The evil that we know is best.Collection: Evil
You will not be a chip the richer.Collection: Chips
You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.]Collection: Grief
Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.Collection: Lying
Fire is next akin to smoke.Collection: Fire
A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.Collection: Ego
The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.Collection: Men
Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.Collection: Spring
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.Collection: Men
Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.Collection: Blessing
A word to the wise is sufficientCollection: Wise
Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.Collection: Character
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.Collection: Friendship
He who dies for virtue does not perish.Collection: Doe
Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.Collection: Pain
To make any gain some outlay is necessary.Collection: Gains
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.Collection: Obscurity
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.Collection: Jest
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.Collection: Ingrates
The gods play games with men as balls.Collection: Men
He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.Collection: Friends
Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged - the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.Collection: Ears
It is much easier to begin than to end.Collection: Easier
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.Collection: Overcoming
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.Collection: Envy
The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.Collection: Men
Your wealth is where your friends areCollection: Friendship
He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard.Collection: Deception
It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time.Collection: Drink
For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.Collection: Men
I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]Collection: Undone
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.Collection: Hands
He can do most who has most power.Collection: Can Do
I count him lost, who is lost to shame.Collection: Shame
That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.Collection: Sadness
Not every age is fit for childish sports.Collection: Sports
Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.Collection: Life
He that's in love, i' faith, even if he is hungry, isn't hungry at all.Collection: Life