Titus Maccius Plautus: Citáty v angličtine

“He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.”
Feliciter is sapit, qui alieno periculo sapit.

“He’s a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.”
Nihil agit, qui diffidentem verbis solatus suis. Is est amicus, qui in re dubia te juvat, ubi re est opus.

“In one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows the bread with the other.”
Altera manu fert lapidem, panem ostentot altera

“Nor do I hold that every kind of gain is always serviceable. Gain, I know, has render’d many great. But there are times when loss should be preferr’d to gain. (translator Thornton)”
Non ego omnino lucrum omne esse utile homini existimo. Scio ego, multos jam lucrum luculentos homines reddidit. Est etiam, ubi profecto damnum praestet facere, quam lucrum.

“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. (translator Henry Thomas Riley)”
Non optuma haec sunt neque ut ego aequom censeo : verum meliora sunt quam quae deterruma.

“Practice yourself what you preach.”
[F]acias ipse quod faciamus nobis suades.

“Our best support and succor in distress is fortitude of mind.”
In re mala animo si bono utare, adjuvat.

“Man proposes, God disposes. (translated by Thornton)”
Sperat quidem animus : quo eveniat, diis in manu est

“A word to the wise is enough.”
Dictum sapienti sat est.

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

“You are seeking a knot in a bulrush.”

“That expression, "He means well," is useless unless he does well.”
Nequam illud verbum‘st, Bene vult, nisi qui bene facit.

“If you are but content, you have enough to live upon with comfort.”
Si animus est aequus tibi, satis habes, qui bene vitam colas.

“Courage in danger is half the battle.”
Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.

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

“He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.”
Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.

“I love truth, and wish to have it always spoken to me : I hate a liar. (translated by Thornton)”
Ego verum amo, verum vol mihi dici : mendacem odi.

“You miss the point? The lady that spares her lover spares herself too little.”

“Nothing so wretched as a guilty conscience.”
Nihil est miserius, quam animus hominis conscius.