Playwrights From Rome

"There are some remedies worse than the disease."

"Powerful indeed is the empire of habit."

"Do not take part in the council, unless you are called."

"By doing nothing men learn to do ill."

"Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised."

"Success makes some crimes honorable."

"When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all."

"In sterculino plurimum gallus potest."

"No tears are shed, when an enemy dies."

"To forget the wrongs you receive, is to remedy them."

"The bow too tensely strung is easily broken."

"Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy."

"Practice is the best of all instructors."

"He sleeps well who knows not that he sleeps ill."

"Tension weakens the bow; the want of it, the mind."

"When reason rules, money is a blessing."

"A wise man rules his passions, a fool obeys them."

"The loss which is unknown is no loss at all."

"Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends."

"Confidence is the only bond of friendship."

"The anger of lovers renews the strength of love."

"There is no penalty attached to a lover's oath."

"Every one excels in something in which another fails."

"We are interested in others, when they are interested in us."

"Receive an injury rather than do one."

"As men, we are all equal in the presence of death."

"Proximum ab innocentia tenet locum verecunda peccati confessio."

"Velox consilium sequitur paenitentia."

"Taciturnitas stulto homini pro sapientia est."

"Stultum facit fortuna, quem vult perdere."

"Invitat culpam qui peccatum praeterit"

"Malum est consilium, quod mutari non potest."

"Necessitas dat legem non ipsa accipit."

"Ames parentem, si aequus est, si aliter, feras."