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A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

A crafty knave needs no broker.

Add a sprinkling of folly to your long deliberations.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

Adversity reveals the genius of a general; good fortune conceals it.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

A good resolve will make any port.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.

All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.

All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.

All men do not, in fine, admire or love the same thing.

All powerful money gives birth and beauty. [Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.]

A man polished to the nail. [Lat., Ad unguem factus home.]

A mind that is charmed by false appearances refuses better things. [Lat., Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat.]

And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]

And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.

And yet more bright Shines out the Julian star, As moon outglows each lesser light. [Lat., Micat inter omnes Iulium sidus, velut inter ignes Luna minores.]

Anger is a brief lunacy.

Anger is a momentary madness.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Anger is a short madness.

Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Anger is short-lived madness.

A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

An undertaking beset with danger.

A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.

A picture is a poem without words

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

As a neighboring funeral terrifies sick misers, and fear obliges them to have some regard for themselves; so, the disgrace of others will often deter tender minds from vice.

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

As a true translator you will take care not to translate word for word.

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.

As many men as there are existing, so many are their different pursuits.

As riches grow, care follows, and a thirst For more and more.

A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]