Occupation: Playwright Birth: 254 Bc Death: 184 Bc
Tattletales, and those who listen to their slander, by my good will, should all be hanged. The former by their tongues, the latter by their ears. [La….
Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire..
I know that we women are all justly accounted praters; they say in the present day that there never was in any age such a wonder to be found as a dum….
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush..
As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry..
A woman without paint is like food without salt..
He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need..
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend..
He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock..
Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?.
Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away..
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble..
If you speak insults you will hear them also..
What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours..
A man with courage has every blessing..
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain..
Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety..
Man proposes, God disposes..
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism..
Laws are subordinate to custom..
There are games in which it is better to lose than win..