Share this page: Id arbitror Adprime in vita esse utile, ut nequid nimis. My view is that the golden rule in life is never to have too much of anything. -- Andria, line 60 Hancillae lacrimae. Hence these tears. -- Andria, line 126 Amantium irae amoris integratio est. Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love. -- Andria, line 555 Nullumst iam dictum quod no dictum sit prius. Nothing can be said now that has not been said before. -- Eunuchus, prologue, line 41 Compare: La Bruyère, Les caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle (1688): Tout est dit, l'on vient trop tard depuis de sept mille ans qu'il ya des hommes et qui pensent [Everything has been said already; we come too late after more than seven thousand years in which men have lived and thought.] Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto. I am a man; I regard nothing that is human alien to me. -- Heauton Timoreumonos, line 77 Modo liceat vivere, est spes. Where there's life, there's hope. -- Heauton Timoreumonos, line 980 Fortis fortuna adiuvat. Fortune assists the brave. -- Phomio, line 203 Compare: Virgil, Aeneid: Audentis Fortuna iuvat. Fortune assists the bold. Fortune favours the brave. Nil est dictu facilius. Nothing is easier to say. -- Phomio, line 300 Quot homines tot sententiae: suus cuique mos. There are as many opinions as there are people: each has his own point of view. -- Phomio, line 454 Share this page:

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