Great Throughts Treasury

"I count him lost, who is lost to shame."

"I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt."

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

"I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.)"

"I have taken a wife. I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry."

"I know that we women are all justly accounted praters; they say in the present day that there never was in any age such a wonder to be found as a dumb woman."

"I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar."

"I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame."

"I say, Libanus, what a poor devil a chap in love is!"

"I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain."

"I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man."

"If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest."

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

"If you have a sword, we have a toasting-fork at home."

"If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return."

"If you speak insults you will hear them also."

"If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing."

"If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most."

"If you want to do something, do it!"

"In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble."

"In everything the middle road is best."

"In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it."

"In one had he bears a stone, with the other offers bread."

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

"It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage."

"It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries."

"It is a great plague to be too handsome a man."

"It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush."

"It is better to learn from the mistakes of others than that others should learn from you."

"It is common to forget a man and slight him if his good will cannot help you."

"It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favor of what pleases us."

"It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time."

"It is easier to begin well than to finish well."

"It is far easier to begin a task than to finish it."

"It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke."

"It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness."

"It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings."

"It is our human lot, it is heaven's will, that sorrow follow joy."

"It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase."

"It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do."

"It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you."

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

"Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within."

"Know limit in all things."

"Know not what you know, and see not what you see."

"Let a man who wants to find abundance of employment procure a woman and a ship: for no two things do produce more trouble if you begin to equip them; neither are these two things ever equipped enough."

"Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words."

"Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is."

"Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety."

"Love is very fruitful both of honey and gall."