Occupation: Playwright Birth: 186 Bc Death: 159 Bc
While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse..
Of my friends I am the only one left..
When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side..
It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests..
Their silence is enough praise..
We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves..
Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion..
She never was really charming till she died..
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly..
You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time..
The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get..
Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me..
How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy..
The less my hope, the hotter my love.
I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me..
How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?.
We are all of us the worse for too much liberty..
Fortune helps the brave..
Moderation in all things..
Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong..
It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms..