Plautus Quotes

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  Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

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  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

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• Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.

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  Learning, Life Is, Thorough

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• One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

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  Eye, Gossip, Witness

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• Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.

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  Arrogance, Prosperity

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• If you speak insults you will hear them also.

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  Insults You, Insult, Speak

  "Pseudolus". Act IV. 7. 77,

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• There are games in which it is better to lose than win.

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  Winning, Games, Loses

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• Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

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  Wisdom, Reality, Age

  "Trinummus". Play by Plautus, Act II, sc. 2, line 88,

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• Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

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  Men, Mind, Guilt

  "Mostellaria". Play by Plautus, Act III. 1. 13,

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• Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.

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  Sheep, Conflict, Far Away

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• In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.

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  Excess, Trouble, Middle

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• No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.

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  Men, Relative, Despised

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• Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

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  Unexpected, Results, Exception

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• Let deeds match words.

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  Deeds

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• He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.

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  Life, Falling In Love, Fate

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• It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

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  Done, Favour, Ethics

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• Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

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  Income, Expenditures, Exceed

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• Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

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  Patience, Wisdom, Be Patient

  "The Rope". Play by Plautus, 211 BC.

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• It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.

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  Blessing, Appreciate, Lost

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• Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

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  Mud, Manners, Garments

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• Worthy things happen to the worthy.

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  Perseverance, Worthy, Happens

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• To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.

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  Kindness, Favors, Ill

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• It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.

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  Wisdom, Thinking

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• Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

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  Life, Courage, Eloquence

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• Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?

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  Abuse, Looks, Calumny

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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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  Men, Favors, Return

  "Persa". V, 1, 10,

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