"Jupiter, now assuredly is the time when I could readily consent to be slain, lest life should sully this ecstasy with some disaster."

Eunuchus. Act iii. Sc. 5, 2. (550.)

"This and a great deal more like it I have had to put up with."

Eunuchus. Act iv. Sc. 6, 8. (746.)

"Take care and say this with presence of mind."

Eunuchus. Act iv. Sc. 6, 31. (769.)

"It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms."

Eunuchus. Act iv. Sc. 7, 19. (789.)

"I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination."

Eunuchus. Act iv. Sc. 7, 42. (812.)

"I took to my heels as fast as I could."

Eunuchus. Act v. Sc. 2, 5. (844.)

"Many a time, . . . from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up."

Eunuchus. Act v. Sc. 2, 34. (873.)

"I only wish I may see your head stroked down with a slipper."

Eunuchus. Act v. Sc. 7, 4. (1028.)

"I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me."

Heautontimoroumenos. Act i. Sc. 1, 25. (77.)

"This is a wise maxim, "to take warning from others of what may be to your own advantage.""

Heautontimoroumenos. Act i. Sc. 2, 36. (210.)

"That saying which I hear commonly repeated,--that time assuages sorrow."

Heautontimoroumenos. Act iii. Sc. 1, 12. (421.)

"Really, you have seen the old age of an eagle, as the saying is."

Heautontimoroumenos. Act iii. Sc. 2, 9. (520.)

"Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it."

Heautontimoroumenos. Act iv. Sc. 1, 53. (666.)

"Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking."

Heautontimoroumenos. Act iv. Sc. 2, 8. (675.)

"What now if the sky were to fall?"

Heautontimoroumenos. Act iv. Sc. 3, 41. (719.)

"Rigorous law is often rigorous injustice."

Heautontimoroumenos. Act iv. Sc. 5, 48. (796.)

"There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance."

Heautontimoroumenos. Act iv. Sc. 6, 1. (805.)

"How many things, both just and unjust, are sanctioned by custom!"

Heautontimoroumenos. Act iv. Sc. 7, 11. (839.)

"Fortune helps the brave."

Phormio. Act i. Sc. 4, 25. (203.)

"It is the duty of all persons, when affairs are the most prosperous, then in especial to reflect within themselves in what way they are to endure adversity."

Phormio. Act ii. Sc. 1, 11. (241.)

"As many men, so many minds; every one his own way."

Phormio. Act ii. Sc. 4, 14. (454.)

"As the saying is, I have got a wolf by the ears."

Phormio. Act iii. Sc. 2, 21. (506.)

"I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself."

Adelphoe. Act iii. Sc. 3, 61. (415.)

"According as the man is, so must you humour him."

Adelphoe. Act iii. Sc. 3, 77. (431.)

"It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends."

Adelphoe. Act v. Sc. 3, 18. (803.)

"What comes from this quarter, set it down as so much gain."

Adelphoe. Act v. Sc. 3, 30. (816.)

"It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests."

Adelphoe. Act v. Sc. 8, 30. (953.)

"For as lack of adornment is said to become some women, so this subtle oration, though without embellishment, gives delight."

De Oratore. 78.

"Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events."

De Divinatione. i. 118.

"He is never less at leisure than when at leisure."

De Officiis. iii. 1.

"While the sick man has life there is hope."

Epistolarum ad Atticum. ix. 10, 4.

"Continual dropping wears away a stone."

De Rerum Natura. i. 313.

"What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others."

De Rerum Natura. iv. 637.

"In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers."

De Rerum Natura. iv. 1133.

"In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war."

Satires, ii. 2. (111.)

"You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared-for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus's herd."

Satires, ii. 4, 15.

"What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect."

Epistles, i. 12, 19.

"If you wish me to weep, you yourself must feel grief."

Ars Poetica. 102.

"The mountains will be in labour; an absurd mouse will be born."

Ars Poetica. 139.

"Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods."

Ars Poetica. 359.

"They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen."

The Art of Love. i. 99.

"Nothing is stronger than custom."

The Art of Love. ii. 345.

"Then the omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion."

Metamorphoses. i.

"It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul."

Metamorphoses. xiii.

"The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report."

Fasti. iv. 311.

"Love thyself, and many will hate thee."

Frag. 146.

"Practice in time becomes second nature."

Frag. 227.

"When God is planning ruin for a man, He first deprives him of his reason."

Frag. 379.

"When I am dead let fire destroy the world; It matters not to me, for I am safe."

Frag. 430.

"Toil does not come to help the idle."

Frag. 440.