“If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.”
Rudens, Act IV, sc. 7, line 3; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Variant translation: [A] word to the wise! Keep what the Gods have given you. (translation by Cleveland King Chase)
Rudens (The Rope)
Original
[S}i sapias, sapias : habeus quod di dant boni.
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Plautus 54
Roman comic playwright of the Old Latin period -254–-184 BCRelated quotes
“Poverty and Genius were coupled by the wisdom of Providence for wise and good ends, no doubt”
(from vol 2, letter 9: 4 Oct 1778, to Mr S___ ).
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 5, "Sea Dreams" (Ged)
Act I, scene i.
Eastward Hoe (1605)
Better Way.
Song lyrics, Both Sides of the Gun (2006)
As quoted in The Diegesis (1829) by Robert Taylor, p. 219