Plautus
To love is human, it is also human to forgive.Collection: Forgiveness
A mouse relies not solely on one hole.Collection: Holes
It well becomes a young man to be modest.Collection: Men
Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.Collection: Ornaments
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.Collection: Men
Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.Collection: Friendship
Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.Collection: Enemy
It wasn't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.Collection: Hands
If I can only keep my good name, I shall have riches enough.Collection: Names
We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss.Collection: Loss
Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.Collection: Valentines Day
He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.Collection: Wisdom
Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.Collection: Ears
He whom the Gods love dies young.Collection: Latin
What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.Collection: Marriage
He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.Collection: Friendship
I suspect that hunger was my mother.Collection: Mother
That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.Collection: Husband
For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.Collection: Curiosity
To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.Collection: Men
How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!Collection: Obscurity
A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.Collection: Holes
Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business, if you have begun to fit them out. Nor are these two things ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them.Collection: Business
It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master's doing.Collection: Love
Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.Collection: Happens
The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.Collection: Cutting
It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.Collection: Serious
Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!Collection: Daughter
All men love themselves.Collection: Men
We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.Collection: Vex
That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.Collection: Family
The stronger always succeeds.Collection: Strength
If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people's wrath is as heavy as lead.Collection: Gratitude
Feast today makes fast tomorrowCollection: Today
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.Collection: Pain
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.Collection: Thinking
Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.Collection: Men
He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.Collection: Gains
Fortitude is a great help in distress.Collection: Helping