"Waste not fresh tears over old griefs."

Alexander. Frag. 44.

"The nobly born must nobly meet his fate."

Alcmene. Frag. 100.

"Woman is woman's natural ally."

Alope. Frag. 109.

"Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife."

Antigone. Frag. 164.

"Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain."

Antiope. Frag. 204.

"Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid."

Hippolytus. Frag. 435.

"Second thoughts are ever wiser."

Hippolytus. Frag. 436.

"Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame."

Licymnius. Frag. 477.

"Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it."

Meleager. Frag. 523.

"A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing."

Meleager. Frag. 525.

"Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world."

OEdipus. Frag. 546.

"When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them."

Temenidæ. Frag. 734.

"Every man is like the company he is wont to keep."

Phoenix. Frag. 809.

"Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?"

Phrixus. Frag. 830.

"Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future."

Phrixus. Frag. 927.

"The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children."

Phrixus. Frag. 970.

"We are all clever enough at envying a famous man while he is yet alive, and at praising him when he is dead."

Frag. 1.

"Life is short and the art long."

Aphorism i.

"Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases."

Aphorism i.

"Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent."

Frag. 6.

"What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours."

Trinummus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 48. (329.)

"Not by years but by disposition is wisdom acquired."

Trinummus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 88. (367.)

"These things are not for the best, nor as I think they ought to be; but still they are better than that which is downright bad."

Trinummus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 111. (392.)

"He whom the gods favour dies in youth."

Bacchides. Act iv. Sc. 7, 18. (816.)

"You are seeking a knot in a bulrush."

Menæchmi. Act ii. Sc. 1, 22. (247.)

"In the one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows the bread in the other."

Aulularia. Act ii. Sc. 2, 18. (195.)

"I had a regular battle with the dunghill-cock."

Aulularia. Act iii. Sc. 4, 13. (472.)

"It was not for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand."

Aulularia. Act iv. Sc. 3, 1. (624.)

"There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain."

Captivi. Act ii. Sc. 2, 77. (327.)

"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble."

Rudens. Act ii. Sc. 5, 71.

"If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you."

Rudens. Act iv. Sc. 7, 3. (1229.)

"Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only."

Truculentus. Act iv. Sc. 4, 15. (868.)

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

Epidicus. Act iii. Sc. 3, 44. (425.)

"Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope."

Mostellaria. Act i. Sc. 3, 40. (197.)

"To blow and swallow at the same moment is not easy."

Mostellaria. Act iii. Sc. 2, 104. (791.)

"Each man reaps on his own farm."

Mostellaria. Act iii. Sc. 2, 112. (799.)

"Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?"

Andria. The Prologue. 17.

"Of surpassing beauty and in the bloom of youth."

Andria. Act i. Sc. 1, 45. (72.)

"Hence these tears."

Andria. Act i. Sc. 1, 99. (126.)

"That is a true proverb which is wont to be commonly quoted, that "all had rather it were well for themselves than for another.""

Andria. Act ii. Sc. 5, 15. (426.)

"The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love."

Andria. Act iii. Sc. 3, 23. (555.)

"Look you, I am the most concerned in my own interests."

Andria. Act iv. Sc. 1, 12. (636.)

"In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before."

Eunuchus. The Prologue. 41.

"It is up with you; all is over; you are ruined."

Eunuchus. Act i. Sc. 1, 9. (54.)

"If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything."

Eunuchus. Act i. Sc. 2, 96. (176.)

"Immortal gods! how much does one man excel another! What a difference there is between a wise person and a fool!"

Eunuchus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 1. (232.)

"I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want."

Eunuchus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 12. (243.)

"There are vicissitudes in all things."

Eunuchus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 45. (276.)

"The very flower of youth."

Eunuchus. Act ii. Sc. 3, 28. (319.)

"I did not care one straw."

Eunuchus. Act iii. Sc. 1, 21. (411.)