Plautus Quotes - Page 2

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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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• A mouse does not rely on just one hole.

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  Political, Doe, Politics

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• A man with courage has every blessing.

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  Blessing, Men

  Titus Maccius Plautus (2012). “Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives”, p.146, tredition

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• Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.

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  Desire, Trouble, Knows

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• A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.

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  Mind, Affliction, Wells

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• He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.

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  Casts, Precipice, Ifs

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• No man is wise enough by himself.

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  Wise, Teamwork, Wisdom

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82, Miles Gloriosus, III. 3. 12, 1922.

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• Where there are friends there is wealth.

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  Friendship, Relationship, Real Friends

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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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• Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

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  Life, Courage, Eloquence

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• In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.

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  Cheerful, Advantage, Disposition

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• The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

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  Business, Men, Venture

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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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  Friendship, Travel, House

  "Miles Gloriosus". Play by Titus Maccius Plautus, Act III, scene 1, line 146,

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• What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things - either to lose your loan or lose your friend.

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  Kindness, Loss, Two

  "Trinummus". IV. 3. 43,

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• How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

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  Obscurity, Talent, Highest

  "Captivi". I, 2, 62,

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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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  Inspirational, Funny, Men

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• Laws are subordinate to custom.

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  Law, Subordinates, Customs

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• It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.

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  Kindness, Men, Purpose

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• He who dies for virtue does not perish.

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  Doe, Virtue, Dies

  Titus Maccius Plautus (1893). “Comedies of T. Maccius Plautus: (Amphitruo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi)”

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• Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

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  Character, Decision, Buyers

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• He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.

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  Rich, Become Rich, Dues

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• If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.

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  Contentment, Enough, Ifs

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 133-36, Aulularia, II. 2. 10, 1922.

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• In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.
  [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu;
  Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.]

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  Men, Excess, Trouble

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• A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

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  Mind, Contentment, Trouble

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• I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

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  Men, Guilt, Shame

  "Bacchides". Play by Plautus,

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