Frases de Plauto

“Los que divulgan la calumnia y los que la escuchan, si valiera mi opinión, deberían ser colgados; los divulgadores, por la lengua, y los oyentes, por las orejas.”

“Si puedo preservar mi reputación, será suficiente riqueza.”

“Siguiendo al río se llega a la mar.”

“A buen entendedor, pocas palabras bastan.”

“Causa es de perder lo seguro ir en busca de lo incierto.”

“El que muere por amor a la virtud, no perece.”

“El que no piensa en sus derechos más que cuando se lo recuerdan no es digno de estimación.”

“La pobreza es un maestro de todas las artes.”

“Nadie puede gozar de una dicha perpetua.”

“Si reclamas el dinero prestado, tendrás que de un amigo tu bondad hizo tu enemigo.”

“Lobo es el hombre para el hombre, y no hombre, cuando desconoce quién es el otro.”

“No es por la edad, sino por la capacidad, que se adquiere sabiduría.”

“In re mala animo si bono utare, adjuvat.”

“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.

“The chap that endures hard knocks like a man enjoys a soft time later on.”

“The valiant profit more
Their country, than the finest cleverest speakers.”

“Each man reaps on his own farm.”

“Fish and guests in three days are stale.”
Quasi piscis itidem est amator lenae: nequam est nisi recens.

“According as men thrive, their friends are true; if their affairs go to wreck, their friends sink with them. Fortune finds friends.”
Ut cuique homini res parata est, firmi amici sunt : si res labat, itidem amici collabascunt. Res amicos invenit.

“For true it is, good oft befalls us when we least expect it. And true it is, that when we trust in hope, we’re often disappointed.”
Nam multa praeter spem, scio, multis bona evenisse. At ego etiam qui speraverint, spem decepisse multos.

“Valour’s the best reward; ‘tis valour that surpasses all things else : our liberty, our safety, life, estate, our parents, children, country, are by this preserved, protected : valour everything comprises in itself; and every good awaits the man who is possess’d of valour. (translator Thornton)”
[V]irtus praemium est optimum ; virtus omnibus remus anteit profecto : libertas salus vita res et parentes, patria et prognati tutantur, servantur : virtus omnia in sese habet, omnia adsunt bona quem penest virtus.

“He whom the gods protect : the youth is dying whilst he is in health, and has his senses and his judgment sound.”
Quem di diligent, adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.

“Patience, then, is the best remedy against affliction.”
Animus aequus optimus est aerumnae condimentum.

“Drink! live like the Greeks! eat! gorge!. (translator unknown)”
Bibite ! pergraecamini ! Este ! effercite vos !