Amphitryon Plautus Play Quotes

“Exossatum os esse oportet quem probe percusseris.”

“Plus aegri ex abitu viri, quam ex adventu voluptatis cepi.”

“Satin parva res est voluptatum in vita atque in aetate agunda praequam quod molestum est?”

“Ita cuique comparatum est in aetate hominum;ita divis est placitum, voluptatem ut maeror comes consequatur.”

“Wikipedia: Amphitryon (Plautus play)”

“Non ego illam mihi dotem duco esse, quae dos dicitur,sed pudicitiam et pudorem et sedatum cupidinem,deum metum, parentum amorem et cognatum concordiam,tibi morigera atque ut munifica sim bonis, prosim probis.”

“Virtus praemium est optimum;virtus omnibus remus anteit profecto:libertas salus vita res et parentes, patria et prognatitutantur, servantur:virtus omnia in sese habet, omnia adsuntbona quem penest virtus.”

“You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.”

“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.”

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”