Plautus quotes
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“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.”
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“Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.”
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“Where there are friends there is wealth.”
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“The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.”
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“No man is wise enough by himself.”
-- PlautusSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82, Miles Gloriosus, III. 3. 12, 1922.
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“Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.”
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“Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.”
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“He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.”
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“Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability”
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“Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.”
-- PlautusSource : "Mostellaria". Play by Plautus, Act III. 1. 13,
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“There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.”
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“Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.”
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“That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.”
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“I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.”
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“A contented mind is the best source for trouble.”
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“For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.”
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“If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.”
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“This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.”
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“If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.”
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“Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.”
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“Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.”
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“'He means well' is useless unless he does well.”
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“No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.”
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“There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.”
-- PlautusSource : Titus Maccius Plautus (2012). “Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives”, p.492, tredition
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“Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.”
-- PlautusSource : "Trinummus". Play by Plautus, Act II, sc. 2, line 88,
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“Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.”
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“Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.”
-- PlautusSource : "The Rope". Play by Plautus, 211 BC.
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“Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.”
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“If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.”
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“It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.”
-- PlautusSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 862-63, Mostellaria, II. 1. 32, 1922.
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“Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.”
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“Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.”
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“The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.”
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“He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.”
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“Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.”
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“I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.”
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“If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.”
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“If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.”
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“In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.”
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“In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.”
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“It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time.”
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“It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.”
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“It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.”
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“It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.”
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“I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]”
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“It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.”
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“It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.”
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“Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.”
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“No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.”
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“Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?”
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“It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.”
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“Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.”
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“It is easier to begin well than to finish well.”
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“I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.”
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“That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.”
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“He that is in love, faith, if he be hungry, is not hungry at all.”
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“Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.”
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“Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.”
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“He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.”
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“One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.”
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