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How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit. [Lat., Quam multa injusta ac prava fiunt moribus!] - Heauton timoroumenos (IV, 7, 11) [Habit] The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. [Lat., Jus summum saepe summa est malitia.] - Heauton timoroumenos (IV, V, 48) [Law] By great efforts obtain great trifles. [Lat., Magno iam conatu magnas nugas.] - Heauton timorumenos (IV, 1, 8) [Trifles] We all, according as our business prospers or fails, are elated or cast down. [Lat., Omnibus nobis ut res dant sese, ita magni atque humiles sumus.] - Hecyra (III, 2, 20) [Business] The nets not stretched to catch the hawk, Or kite, who do us wrong; but laid for those Who do us none at all. [Lat., Non rete accipitri tenditur, neque miluo, Qui male faciunt nobis: illis qui nihil faciunt tenditur.] - Phormio (act II, sc. 2, l. 16), (Colman's translation) [Hawks] There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly. - Phormio (act IV) [Rumor] Do you fear to trust the word of a man, whose honesty you have seen in business? [Lat., Cujuslibet tu fidem in pecunia perspiceres, Verere ei verba credere?] - Phormio (I, 2, 10) [Business] It is consummate ignorance to kick against the prinks. [Lat., Namque inscitia est, Adversum stimulum calces.] - Phormio (I, 2, 27) [Ignorance] Whatever chance shall bring, we will bear with equanimity. [Lat., Quod sors feret feremus aequo animo.] - Phormio (I, 2, 88) [Courage] For it shows want of knowledge to kick against the goad. [Lat., Namque inscitia est, Adversum stimulum calces.] - Phormio (I, 24, 27) [Knowledge] Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fortes fortuna adjuvat.] - Phormio (I, 4, 20) [Bravery : Fortune : Proverbs] Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.) [Lat., Ne laterum laves.] - Phormio (I, IV, 9), a Greek proverb [Proverbs : Work] So many men, so many opinions; everyone has his own fancy. [Lat., Quot homines, tot sententiae; suus cuique mos.] - Phormio (II, 3, 14) [Opinion] Do not do what is already done. [Lat., Actum ne agas.] - Phormio (II, 3, 72) [Action] You are harping on the same string. [Lat., Cantilenam candem canis.] - Phormio (III, 2, 10) [Consistency] You sing the same old song. [Lat., Cantilenam eandem canis.] - Phormio (III, 2, 10) [Songs] Give place to your betters. [Lat., De locum melioribus.] - Phormio (III, 2, 37) [Humility : Modesty] A word to the wise is sufficient. [Lat., Dictum sapienti sat est.] - Phormio (III, 3, 8) [Proverbs : Words] Of my friends I am the only one I have left. [Lat., Ego meorum solus sum meus.] - Phormio (IV, 1, 21) [Friends] I think it is better to have two strings to my bow. [Lat., Commodius esse opinor duplici spe utier.] - Phormio (IV, 2, 13) [Prudence] Nothing indeed remains for me but that I should hang myself. [Lat., Ad restim mihi quidem res rediit planissume.] - Phormio (IV, 4, 5) [Fate] How often things occur by mere chance, which we dared not even to hope for. [Lat., Quam saepe forte temere eveniunt, quae non audeas optare!] - Phormio (V, 1, 31) [Chance] Knavery's now its own reward. [Lat., His nunc praemium est qui recta prava faciunt.] - Phormio (V, I, 6) [Knavery] There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong conduct appear right. [Lat., Hinc nunc praemium est, qui recta prava faciunt.] - Phormio (VIII, 2, 6) [Deceit] Attired to please herself: no gems of any kind She wore, nor aught of borrowed gloss in Nature's stead; And, then her long, loose hair flung round her head Fell carelessly behind. - Self-Tormentor (act II, sc. 2) [Apparel] Displaying page 5 of 6 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 [5] 6
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