Plautus Quotes - Page 5

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• And one eye-witness weighs
  More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing,
  All the world o'er.

  Plautus

  Believe, Eye, World

  "Comedies of Plautus".

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• For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.

  Plautus

  Curiosity, Curious

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• To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

  Plautus

  Men, Honor, Honest

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• How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!

  Plautus

  Obscurity, Genius, Buried

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• Conquered, we conquer.

  Plautus

  Conquer

  "The Lot Drawers". Play by Plautus, Act II, scene viii, line 74,

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• Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business, if you have begun to fit them out. Nor are these two things ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them.

  Plautus

  Business, Two, Giving

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 85-87, Poenulus, I. 2. 1, 1922.

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• A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.

  Plautus

  Holes, Mice

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• Without feathers it isn't easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
  [Lat., Sine pennis volare hau facilest: meae alae pennas non habent.]
  [Alt., Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.]

  Plautus

  Wings, Flying, Aviation

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• Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
  [Lat., Tardo amico nihil est quidquam iniquius.]

  Plautus

  Delay, Annoying

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• To make any gain some outlay is necessary.

  Plautus

  Gains

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• It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master's doing.

  Plautus

  Love, Degrees, Distraction

  "The Comedies of Plautus".

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• Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.

  Plautus

  Happens

  Mostellaria act 1, sc. 3, l. 40 See Robert Burns 3; Dickens 67; Disraeli 7; Modern Proverbs 102; Orwell 17; Proverbs 2; Sayings 25

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• The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.

  Plautus

  Cutting, Men, Firsts

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• It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.

  Plautus

  Serious, Treats, Said

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• Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!

  Plautus

  Daughter, Women, Delay

  Titus Maccius Plautus, Paul Nixon (1924). “Plautus: with an English translation”

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• All men love themselves.

  Plautus

  Men

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• We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.

  Plautus

  Vex, Shame, Endure

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• That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.

  Plautus

  Family, Men, Unwelcome

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• Know not what you know, and see not what you see.
  [Lat., Etiam illud quod scies nesciveris;
  Ne videris quod videris.]

  Plautus

  Ignorance, Knows

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• The stronger always succeeds.

  Plautus

  Strength, Stronger, Succeed

  "Truculentus". IV, 3, 30,

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• If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people's wrath is as heavy as lead.

  Plautus

  Gratitude, Wrath, People

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• Feast today makes fast tomorrow

  Plautus

  Today, Tomorrow

  Titus Maccius Plautus (1876). “Aulularia: With Notes Critical and Exegetical and an Introd”, p.121

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• A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
  [Lat., Mulieri nimio male facere melius est onus, quam bene.]

  Plautus

  Women, Anger, Males

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• I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.

  Plautus

  Pain, Pleasure

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• Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.

  Plautus

  Thinking, Immortal, Disgrace

  "Persa", III. 1. 27, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 197, 1922.

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