John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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Terence. (c. 185 or c. 195– B.C.) (continued) |
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As the saying is, I have got a wolf by the ears. 1 |
Phormio. Act iii. Sc. 2, 21. (506.) |
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I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself. |
Adelphoe. Act iii. Sc. 3, 61. (415.) |
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According as the man is, so must you humour him. |
Adelphoe. Act iii. Sc. 3, 77. (431.) |
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It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends. 2 |
Adelphoe. Act v. Sc. 3, 18. (803.) |
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What comes from this quarter, set it down as so much gain. |
Adelphoe. Act v. Sc. 3, 30. (816.) |
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It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests. 3 |
Adelphoe. Act v. Sc. 8, 30. (953.) |
Cicero. (106 B.C.–43 B.C.) |
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For as lack of adornment is said to become some women, so this subtle oration, though without embellishment, gives delight. 4 |
De Oratore. 78. |
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Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events. 5 |
De Divinatione. i. 118. |
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He is never less at leisure than when at leisure. 6 |
De Officiis. iii. 1. |
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While the sick man has life there is hope. 7 |
Epistolarum ad Atticum. ix. 10, 4. |
Note 1. A proverbial expression, which, according to Suetonius, was frequently in the mouth of Tiberius Cæsar. [back] |
Note 2. All things are in common among friends.—Diogenes Laertius: Diogenes, vi. [back] |
Note 3. Cicero quotes this passage (Tusculan Questions, book iii.), and the maxim was a favourite one with the Stoic philosophers. [back] |
Note 4. See Thomson, Quotation 18. [back] |
Note 5. See Coleridge, Quotation 71. [back] |
Note 6. See Rogers, Quotation 7. [back] |
Note 7. See Gay, Quotation 19. [back] |