John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Hippocrates. (c. 460–c. 370 B.C.) |
| 8512 |
| Life is short and the art long. 1 |
| Aphorism i. |
| 8513 |
| Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. 2 |
| Aphorism i. |
| Dionysius the Elder. (c. 430–367 B.C.) |
| 8514 |
| Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. |
| Frag. 6. |
| Plautus. (c. 254–184 B.C.) |
| 8515 |
| What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours. 3 |
| Trinummus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 48. (329.) |
| 8516 |
| Not by years but by disposition is wisdom acquired. |
| Trinummus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 88. (367.) |
| 8517 |
| 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. |
| Trinummus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 111. (392.) |
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| He whom the gods favour dies in youth. 4 |
| Bacchides. Act iv. Sc. 7, 18. (816.) |
| Note 1. See Chaucer, Quotation 52. [back] |
| Note 2. See Shakespeare, Hamlet, Quotation 179. For a desperate disease a desperate cure.—Montaigne: Chap. iii. The Custom of the Isle of Cea. [back] |
| Note 3. See Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Quotation 37. [back] |
| Note 4. See Wordsworth, Quotation 148. [back] |