Plautus Quotes - Page 10

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• Ones oldest friend is the best.

  Plautus

  Friends, Oldest Friends

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• Wine is a cunning wrestler.

  Plautus

  Wine, Wrestler, Cunning

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• To waste one's breath; to pump into a sieve.

  Plautus

  Pumps, Waste, Breaths

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• If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.

  Plautus

  Return, Hard, Ifs

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• Good things soon find a purchaser.

  Plautus

  Good Things, Purchasers

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• The evil that we know is best.

  Plautus

  Evil, Knows

  Titus Maccius Plautus (1767). “The comedies of Plautus, tr. into familiar blank verse, by B. Thornton”, p.7

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• Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

  Plautus

  Lying, Hot

  Titus Maccius Plautus, Richard Warner (1772). “Comedies of Plautus: Menaechmi. Epidicus. Mostellaria. Pseudolus”, p.237

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• A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.

  Plautus

  Ego, Gold, Goodness

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 326-29, Poenulus, I. 2. 90, 1922.

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• Badly gotten, badly spent.
  [Lat., Male partum, male disperit.]

  Plautus

  Males, Possession

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• What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.

  Plautus

  Marriage, Mines

  Titus Maccius Plautus (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Plautus (Illustrated)”, p.1307, Delphi Classics

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• Not every age is fit for childish sports.

  Plautus

  Sports, Age, Aging

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• Man is a wolf to man.
  [Lat., Homo homini lupus.]

  Plautus

  Men

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• Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.

  Plautus

  Valentines Day, Love Is, Spices

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• The sea is certainly common to all.

  Plautus

  Sea, Ships, Common

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• He that's in love, i' faith, even if he is hungry, isn't hungry at all.

  Plautus

  Life, Hungry, Faith In Love

  "Complete Works of Plautus".

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• Courage in danger is half the battle.
  [Lat., Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.]

  Plautus

  Courage, Battle, Bonus

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• He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors.
  [Lat., Victor victorum cluet.]

  Plautus

  Conquest, Conqueror

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• Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

  Plautus

  Ornaments, Soil, Filth

  "Mostellaria". Play by Plautus, I. 3. 133, 1866.

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• Modesty should accompany youth.

  Plautus

  Modesty, Youth, Should

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• If you spend a thing you can not have it.
  [Lat., Non tibi illud apparere si sumas potest.]

  Plautus

  Possession, Can Not, Ifs

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• He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
  [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]

  Plautus

  Cracks, Shells, Kernel

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• I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

  Plautus

  Shame, Lost

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 702, Bacchides, III. 3. 80, 1922.

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• We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss.

  Plautus

  Loss, Appreciate, Comfort

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• For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.

  Plautus

  Men, Enemy, Doe

  Titus Maccius Plautus (1852). “The Comedies of Plautus”, p.277

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• Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases.
  [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]

  Plautus

  Affair, Fortune, Mould

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