Frases de Plauto

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“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.”

“Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.”
Non aetate, verum ingenio apiscitur sapientia.

“Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.”
Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit.

“Keep what you’ve got; the evil that we know is best. (translator Thornton)”
Habeus ut nactus ; nota mala res optima’st.

“No blessing lasts forever.”
Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.

“Conquer by means of true virtue.”

“If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.”
[S}i sapias, sapias : habeus quod di dant boni.

“For what is idly got is idly spent.”
Male partum, male disperit.

“Things we hope not for oftener come to pass than things we wish for. (translated by Thornton)”
Insperata accidunt magis saepe quam que speres.

“Love is very fruitful both of honey and gall.”
Amor et melle et felle est faecundissimus.

“For him I reckon lost who’s lost to shame.”
Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.

“For what is yours is mine, and mine is yours.”
Quod tuum’st, meum’st; omne meum est autem tuum.

“Oh, are not the pleasures in life, in this daily round, trifling compared with the pains!”
Satin parva res est voluptatum in vita atque in aetate agunda praequam quod molestum est?

“But ne’ertheless reflect, the little mouse, how sage a brute it is! Who never trusts its safety to one hole : for when it finds one entrance is block’d up, it has secure some other outlet.”
Cogito, mus pusillus quam sit sapiens bestia, aetatem qui uni cubili nunquam committit suam : quia si unum ostium obsideatur, aliud perfugium gerit.

“The face that thou shalt smite in earnest is bound thereafter to be boneless.”

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

“Whene’er a man is quartered at a friend’s, if he but stay three days, his company they will grow weary of. (translator Thornton)”
Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium divorti potest, quin, ubi triduum continuum fuerit, jam odiosis siet.

“One eyewitness weighs more than ten hearsays. Seeing is believing, all the world over.”
Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem. Qui audiunt, audita dicunt: qui vident, plane sciunt.

“It is better to learn from the mistakes of others than that others should learn from you.”
Te de aliis, quam alios de te suaviu’st.

“Conquered, we conquer”
Victi vicimus

“Ne male loquare absenti amico.”

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

“I had a regular battle with the dunghill-cock.”

“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.”