Occupation: Playwright Birth: 254 Bc Death: 184 Bc
You will stir up the hornets. [Lat., Irritabis crabones.].
Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold..
One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. Those who hear, speak of shat they have heard; whose who see, know beyond mistake. [Lat., Pluris….
And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended. [Lat., Itidemque ut saepe jam in multis locis, ….
I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man..
A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be c….
Smooth words in place of gifts. [Lat., Dicta docta pro datis.].
When you fly from temptation, don't leave a forwarding address. Where there's smoke there's fire..
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in..
Man is a wolf to man. [Lat., Homo homini lupus.].
To love is human, it is also human to forgive..
Good things soon find a purchaser..
The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself..
He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense..
You drown him by your talk..
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell. [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.].
The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb. [Lat., Nunquam aedepol temere tinniit tintinnabulum; Nisi quis illud ….
That least pleases us which is most urged on us..
The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb..
Feast today makes fast tomorrow.
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain..