Superstition brings the gods into even the smallest matters
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PAUL CARVEL I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insign...
RICK YANCEY But let me say this. I am a superstitious man, a ridiculous failing but I must confess it here. And ...
MARIO PUZO The gods want you to laugh and above all they want you to laugh at them.
MARTY RUBIN Before you dive in head first, make sure the water is not shallow.
KATHERINE DIVOLIS Envy, like fire, soars upward.
[Lat., Invidiam, tamquam ignem, summa petere.]
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.
TITUS LIVY Adversity reminds men of religion.
[Lat., Adverse res admonent religionum.]
TITUS LIVY Men's plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not
circumstances by the plans.
[Lat., Cons...
TITUS LIVY In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.
TITUS LIVY Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays
itself.
[Lat., Ipsa se fraus, etiams...
TITUS LIVY Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely
dread.
[Lat., Graviora quae pat...
TITUS LIVY Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
[Lat., Necessitas ultimum et maximum telum est.]
TITUS LIVY It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great
fortune; to acquire it is difficult an...
TITUS LIVY No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.
[Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire ...
TITUS LIVY A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
[Lat., Parvis mobilis rebus animus muliebris.]
TITUS LIVY Experience is the teacher of fools.
[Lat., Stultorum eventus magister est.]
TITUS LIVY It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
TITUS LIVY The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.
[Lat., Pessimus quidem pudor vel...
TITUS LIVY As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought
not, she will not be ashamed of what ...
TITUS LIVY In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.
TITUS LIVY Rashness is not fortunate
TITUS LIVY The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something th...
TITUS LIVY Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
TITUS LIVY Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue
TITUS LIVY It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
TITUS LIVY Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves
TITUS LIVY Adversity makes men remember God
TITUS LIVY Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished
TITUS LIVY Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
TITUS LIVY Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
TITUS LIVY As long as that song plays, I get to put my hands on you, and I can’t guarantee I’m going to be ...
MEREDITH WILD Just give me one night, Vanessa. One night, and I won’t let you regret it.
MEREDITH WILD Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Well, I'm more lopsided than a one legged badger," mewed Graypaw, breaking off from his carful stalk...
ERIN HUNTER No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with whi...
ROBERT AICKMAN I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of cours...
JON KRAKAUER I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
SWAMI SIVANANDA One,who tries to imbibe the qualities of gods and brings them into practice, they are automatically ...
SAM VEDA Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of succes...
SWAMI SIVANANDA I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them.
ADRIENNE RICH The lamb baa-ed vigorously as Mary dragged it into the manicure room, and Zel winced. She really sho...
SARAH BETH DURST It is pointless to believe what you see, if you only see what you believe.
MARIE LU You’re wondering whether this is a good idea. Because you’re smart and you see right through me,...
MEREDITH WILD My grandmother valued even the smallest of things.
KOICHI TANAKA Even the smallest candle burns brighter in the dark.
UNKNOWN Even the smallest gesture can make a huge difference.
BILLY BUTLER Even in the smallest of packages comes the power of strength
DEE WALDECK And ShadowClan holds power over there, in the darkest part of the forest. The elders say that the co...
ERIN HUNTER I am so lonely without you, Aedan," Jane said simply.
"You truly want me?"
"Mo...
KAREN MARIE MONING Even the gods love jokes.
PLATO Even the gods love jokes
PLATO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Put your heart into even the smallest seemingly insignificant acts possible. Then be patient enough ...
MATTHEW DONNELLY Homer was a true poet. He made the gods ridiculous.
MARTY RUBIN Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.
JOSHUA KAI Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
JIM HIGHTOWER Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.
ALVAR AALTO Even the smallest tender mercy can bring peace when recognized and appreciated.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Not even the gods fight against necessity.
SIMONIDES Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat.
ERIN HUNTER So that's a fox?' Firepaw whispered. 'What an ugly muzzle!'
'You can say that again!' agreed Gr...
ERIN HUNTER I travel to know where I fit into the world, and where I don’t.
CAREW PAPRITZ The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.
SHERMAN ALEXIE The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.
HOMER It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
EURIPIDES Even the blind and meek and voiceless have gods.
TERRY PRATCHETT When Mother Nature speaks, even the Gods hold silence.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Even the gods couldn't devise a fates so twisted.
RICK RIORDAN A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Henc...
B.F. SKINNER A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Henc...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.
JAMES A. FROUDE Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.
NATSUKI TAKAYA Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times.
ALLEN KLEIN Pausing for prayerful listening, even for a few minutes, brings everything that is important back in...
SHELLY MILLER Always be thankful for the little things... even the smallest mountains can hide the most breathtaki...
NYKI MACK Accept the universe
As the gods gave it to you.
If the gods wanted to give you something e...
ALBERTO CAEIRO What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were nev...
MARIE LU Altho' I rarely waste time in reading on theological subjects, as mangled by our Pseudo-Christians, ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog.
C.S. LEWIS What I was trying to say,” he whispered, “is that I see you in everything. There isn’t a word ...
VERONICA ROSSI He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded...
AUDRE LORDE Everything you do, even the smallest thing, effects someone else at some point. Good or bad.
KIMBERLY BANDY A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of though...
WINSTON CHURCHILL MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of though...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL You should listen to even the smallest voice, someday it could be the one that makes a difference.
CRYSTAL MARCOS This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smalles...
CANNING FOK Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, o...
THOMAS A. EDISON If each hair on our head is accounted for; then wouldn't even the smallest of prayers matter?
ALLENE VAN OIRSCHOT It is fear that first brought gods into the world.
PETRONIUS It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
URSULA K. LE GUIN The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.
MUHAMMAD ALI The one thing that matters is the effort.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY That's the good thing about it. Nothing counts except what's goin' on around you.
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Envy, like fire, soars upward.
[Lat., Invidiam, tamquam ignem, summa petere.]
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.
TITUS LIVY Adversity reminds men of religion.
[Lat., Adverse res admonent religionum.]
TITUS LIVY Men's plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not
circumstances by the plans.
[Lat., Cons...
TITUS LIVY In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.
TITUS LIVY Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays
itself.
[Lat., Ipsa se fraus, etiams...
TITUS LIVY Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely
dread.
[Lat., Graviora quae pat...
TITUS LIVY Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
[Lat., Necessitas ultimum et maximum telum est.]
TITUS LIVY It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great
fortune; to acquire it is difficult an...
TITUS LIVY No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.
[Lat., A proximis quisque minime anteire ...
TITUS LIVY A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
[Lat., Parvis mobilis rebus animus muliebris.]
TITUS LIVY Experience is the teacher of fools.
[Lat., Stultorum eventus magister est.]
TITUS LIVY It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
TITUS LIVY The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.
[Lat., Pessimus quidem pudor vel...
TITUS LIVY As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought
not, she will not be ashamed of what ...
TITUS LIVY In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.
TITUS LIVY Rashness is not fortunate
TITUS LIVY The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something th...
TITUS LIVY Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
TITUS LIVY Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue
TITUS LIVY It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
TITUS LIVY Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves
TITUS LIVY Adversity makes men remember God
TITUS LIVY Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished
TITUS LIVY Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
TITUS LIVY Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
TITUS LIVY Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the stat...
LIVY The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest bree...
LIVY Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
LIVY Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
LIVY In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
LIVY Persevere in virtue and diligence.
LIVY Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.
LIVY Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
LIVY In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
LIVY History is the best medicine for a sick mind, for in history you have a record of the infinite varie...
LIVY No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
LIVY We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
LIVY In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.
LIVY It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
LIVY Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
LIVY It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous...
LIVY A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray i...
LIVY Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
LIVY He will have true glory who despises it.
LIVY Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
LIVY There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
LIVY This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of e...
LIVY Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magni...
LIVY All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
LIVY We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.
LIVY The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of ...
LIVY Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
LIVY Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
LIVY Now Brutus had deliberately assumed a mask to hide his true character. When he learned of the murd...
LIVY Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS Employers should not be able to impose their religious beliefs on female employees, ignoring their i...
DINA TITUS Instead of following through on their promise to concentrate on jobs, Republicans have attacked seni...
DINA TITUS Better late than never.
TITUS LIVIUS There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
TITUS LIVIUS The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest bree...
TITUS LIVIUS Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
TITUS LIVIUS Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
TITUS LIVIUS Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligen...
TITUS LIVIUS In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
TITUS LIVIUS I approach these questions unwillingly, as they are sore subjects, but no cure can be effected witho...
TITUS LIVIUS Greater is our terror of the unknown.
TITUS LIVIUS War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
TITUS LIVIUS I definitely do not support a constitutional amendment that has to do with prohibiting gay marriage.
DINA TITUS Luckily we're not in a malaria-prone area.
ANDREW TITUS It's recommended that health inspectors classify this food before it's made available for human cons...
ANDREW TITUS We might have to deal with food poisoning on top of everything else.
ANDREW TITUS Why don't you climb down off the cross, take the wood to build a bridge, and get over it!
CHRISTOPHER TITUS We're bringing new users on every day.
GREG TITUS We might be taking a slightly different approach -- we're looking for areas where we can excel.
GREG TITUS The lines are blurring online -- a lot of the things you find on our site you'd find on a consumer m...
GREG TITUS It takes a real mental toughness and self-awareness to succeed.
JOHN TITUS Jim Gibbons has maintained the status quo by supporting tax breaks for utilities to continue produci...
DINA TITUS I am especially proud to have the support of men and women who provide essential services for our ci...
DINA TITUS Television has been my goal. I want to host my own fitness show.
LANA TITUS It was a huge honor. We competed against the 10 fittest couples I've ever seen. There's a lot to liv...
LANA TITUS There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
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 For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear...
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS 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 It becomes an emperor to die standing.
TITUS FLAVIUS VESPASIAN 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 A man leaves his great house because he's bored
With life at home, and suddenly returns,
F...
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the hea...
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and all...
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS The supply of matter in the universe was never more tightly packed than it is now, or more widely sp...
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man ...
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS It is easier to be angry. It is easier to hate. It is easier to knock someone down. Those are surfac...
FRANCES MUENZNER TITUS Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS 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) It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the
great distress of another.
[Lat., S...
LUCRETIUS (TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS) 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) The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the
universe).
[Lat., Summarum summa est aete...
LUCRETIUS (TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS) 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) Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom spr...
LUCRETIUS (TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS) Unto the pure all things are pure.
BIBLE, TITUS 1:15 Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.
[Lat., Vitae poscaenia celant.]
LUCRETIUS (TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS) 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) Killing no murder.
COL. SILLIUS (SILAS) TITUS 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) Nothing's new, and nothing's true, and nothing matters.
LUCRETIUS (TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS) We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since
things require a seed to start from.
...
LUCRETIUS (TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS) Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all
things return dissolved into thei...
LUCRETIUS (TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS) 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."
PLAUTUS TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom spr...
LUCRETIUS TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS