Occupation: Playwright Birth: 254 Bc Death: 184 Bc
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase..
I've seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it..
He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve..
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls..
He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need..
Man proposes, God disposes..
A woman without paint is like food without salt..
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..
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..