Occupation: Playwright Birth: 254 Bc Death: 184 Bc
Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies..
Every one can remember that which has interested himself..
Food of Acheron. (Grave.) [Lat., Pabulum Acheruntis.].
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the wo….
That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one..
Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears..
If you want to do something, do it!.
Always bring money along with your complaints..
To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just..
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us..
There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother..
Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers..
It is best to know the worst at once..
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only..
Keep what you have got; the known evil is best. [Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.].
I count him lost, who is lost to shame..
Virtue is the highest reward. Virtue truly goes before all things. Liberty, safety, life, property, parents, country, and children are protected and ….
To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly..
For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you wou….
In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu; Nimia o….
No man is wise enough by himself..