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"Nil est dictu facilius."
"It is the duty of all persons, when affairs are the most prosperous, 12 then in especial to reflect within themselves in what way they are to endure adversity."
"Fortis fortuna adiuvat."
"I only wish I may see your head stroked down with a slipper."
"Many a time,… from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up."
"I took to my heels as fast as I could."
"I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination."
"It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms."
"Take care and say this with presence of mind."
"This and a great deal more like it I have had to put up with."
"Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus"
"Jupiter, now assuredly is the time when I could readily consent to be slain, lest life should sully this ecstasy with some disaster."
"I did not care one straw."
"The very flower of youth."
"There are vicissitudes in all things."
"I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want."
"Immortal gods! how much does one man excel another! What a difference there is between a wise person and a fool!"
"si istuc crederem/sincere dici, quidvis possem perpeti."
"It is up with you; all is over; you are ruined."
"Nullum est iam dictum quod non dictum sit prius."
"Modo liceat vivere, est spes."
"How many things, both just and unjust, are sanctioned by custom!"
"There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly."
"Aliis si licet, tibi non licet."
"Ius summum saepe summa est malitia."
"What now if the sky were to fall?"
"Nil tam difficile est quin quaerendo investigari possit."
"Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it."
"Aquilæ senectus."
"Diem adimere aegritudinem hominibus."
"Periclum ex aliis facito tibi quod ex usu siet."
"Homo sum: humani nihil a me alienum puto."
"Look you, I am the most concerned in my own interests."
"Amantium irae amoris integratio est."
"That is a true proverb which is wont to be commonly quoted, that "all had rather it were well for themselves than for another.""
"Hinc illae lacrimae."
"Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit."
"Of surpassing beauty and in the bloom of youth."
"Ne quid nimis."
"Ut cuique homini res parata est, firmi amici sunt : si res labat, itidem amici collabascunt. Res amicos invenit."
"The face that thou shalt smite in earnest is bound thereafter to be boneless."
"Satin parva res est voluptatum in vita atque in aetate agunda praequam quod molestum est?"
"[V]irtus praemium est optimum ; virtus omnibus remus anteit profecto : libertas salus vita res et parentes, patria et prognati tutantur, servantur : virtus omnia in sese habet, omnia adsunt bona quem penest virtus."
"Vincite virtute vera."
"Victi vicimus"
"Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem."
"Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum."
"Nihil agit, qui diffidentem verbis solatus suis. Is est amicus, qui in re dubia te juvat, ubi re est opus."
"You are seeking a knot in a bulrush."
"Feliciter is sapit, qui alieno periculo sapit."