A Quote by Plautus
You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
[Lat., Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad judicem.]
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
[Lat., Sed profecto Fortuna in omni re dominatur; ea res cunctas ex lubidine magis, quam ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque.]
Why seekest thou rest, since thou art born to labor?
[Lat., Cur quaeris quietem, quam natus sis ad laborem?]
Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.
[Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]
Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.
[Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]
Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there.
[Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.]
Knowest thou not that kings have long hands?
[Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]
You also, O son Brutus.
[Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.]
Man is his own worst enemy.
[Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]
We accomplish more by prudence than by force.
[Lat., Plura consilio quam vi perficimus.]
I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly.
[Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stultitiam.]
It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it.
[Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]
A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse.
[Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]
Let a man practise the profession he best knows.
[Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]
It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace.
[Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]
It is doubtful what fortune to-morrow will bring.
[Lat., Posteraque in dubio est fortunam quam vehat aetas.]
Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
[Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]
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