Playwrights From Rome

"He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself."

"Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last."

"Money alone sets all the world in motion."

"Be your money's master, not its slave."

"It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody."

"We should provide in peace what we need in war."

"God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones."

"It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity."

"No one knows what he can do till he tries."

"Alienum aes homini ingenuo acerba est servitus."

"In tranquillo esse quisque gubernator potest."

"Formonsa facies muta commendatio est."

"Iudex damnatur ubi nocens absolvitur."

"Fortunam citius reperias quam retineas."

"Fortuna vitrea est: tum cum splendet frangitur."

"Fortuna cum blanditur, captatum venit."

"Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter."

"Inopiae desunt multa, avaritiae omnia."

"Honesta turpitudo est pro causa bona."

"He who helps the guilty, shares the crime."

"Contra impudentem stulta est nimia ingenuitas"

"Honesta fama melior est pecunia."

"Audendo virtus crescit, tardando timor."

"His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune."

"When Fortune is on our side, popular favor bears her company."

"Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity."

"A fair exterior is a silent recommendation."

"What is left when honor is lost?"

"You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot."

"Even when there is no law, there is conscience."

"Even when the wound is healed, the scar remains."

"We may with advantage at times forget what we know."

"It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are."

"Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely."

"Even a single hair casts its shadow."

"Solitude is the mother of anxieties."

"For him who loves labor, there is always something to do."

"Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account."

"While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity."

"What happens to one man may happen to all."

"Patience is a remedy for every sorrow."

"Have courage, or cunning, when you deal with an enemy."

"Many receive advice, few profit by it."

"Society in shipwreck is a comfort to all."

"An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage."

"There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace."

"Life is short, but its ills make it seem long."

"Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid."

"To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent."

"He dies twice who perishes by his own hand."