A Quote by Plautus
If you spend a thing you can not have it.
[Lat., Non tibi illud apparere si sumas potest.]
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Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.
[Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]
There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.
[Non enim potest quaestus consistere, si eum sumptus superat.]
Can the fish love the fisherman?
[Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]
No one can obtain from the Pope a dispensation for never dying.
[Lat., Nemo impetrare potest a papa bullam numquam moriendi.]
Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends.
[Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.]
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 tractat aut movet, mutum est, tacet.]
Retire within thyself, and thou will discover how small a stock is there.
[Lat., Tecum habita, et noris quam sit tibi curta supellex.]
Money, make money; by honest means if you can; if not, by any means make money.
[Lat., Rem facias rem, Recte si possis, si non, quocumque modo rem.]
One has no protecting power save prudence.
[Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.]
If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it.
[Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]
Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters.
[Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]
Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself.
[Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]
May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends.
[Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos
Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.]
If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.
[Lat., Si cadere necesse est, occurendum discrimini.]
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
[Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam;
Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]
What, if as said, man is a bubble.
[Lat., Quod, ut dictur, si est homo bulla, eo magis senex.]
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