It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favou... by Plautus

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

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Let not your expenditure exceed your income. by Plautus

Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

expenditures exceed income

It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy t... by Plautus

It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.

spiteful envy wells

It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase. by Plautus

It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.

hounds unwilling folly

It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master's doing.

distraction degrees love

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need. by Plautus

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

friendly friendship men

He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need. by Plautus

He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.

friend-in-need friendship needs

It is best to know the worst at once. by Plautus

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.

success animal motivational

A word to the wise is sufficient by Plautus

A word to the wise is sufficient

wise-words sufficient wise

If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless y... by Plautus

If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.

has-beens ifs want

If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return. by Plautus

If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.

hard return ifs

I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.] by Plautus

I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]

He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had c... by Plautus

He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.

precipice casts ifs

He whom the Gods love dies young. by Plautus

He whom the Gods love dies young.

god-love young latin

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.

tongue ears way

Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. by Plautus

Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.

morrow dies eating

Aliter catuli longe olent, aliter sues. ("Puppies and pigs have a... by Plautus

Aliter catuli longe olent, aliter sues. ("Puppies and pigs have a very different smell.")

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. by Plautus

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

single soul friendship two

Flight without feathers is not easy. by Plautus

Flight without feathers is not easy.

without feathers flight easy