Where a man can live, he can also live well. |
Who persuaded you to cut off the nose of your wife's lover? Wretched husband, that was not the part which outraged you! Fool, what have you done? Your wife has lost nothing by the operation |
Who persuaded you to cut off the nose of your wife's lover? Wretched husband, that was not the part which outraged you! Fool, what have you done? Your wife has lost nothing by the operation |
Why do you wrap up your neck in a woolen muffler when you are going to recite? The muffler would be more suitable for our ears |
With only half a lip you kiss, And half of that I ne'er' should miss, A greater boon, of worth untold, Wilt grant me? That whole half withhold |
With red hair, a black face, a cloven foot, and blear eyes, you show the world a prodigy, Zoilus, if you are an honest man |
You are pretty - we know it; and young - it's true; and rich - who can deny it? But when you praise yourself extravagantly, Fabula, you appear neither rich, nor pretty, nor young |
You ask me, Linus what my field out at Nomentum is to yield? Well this it yields to me: the view, my Linus, has no sign of you |
You have friends, Paullus, just like your pictures and vases, all antique originals |
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. |
You may send poetry to the rich; to poor men give substantial presents |
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. |
You say, Senca, that you were violated by robbers, but the robbers deny it |
You see these fish carved finely in relief by Phidian art? Add water; they will swim |
You wish to appear, Cotta, a pretty man and a great man at one and the same time: but he who is a pretty man, Cotta, is a very small man |