Plautus Quotes - Page 3

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• It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
  [Lat., Nimia est miseria nimis pulchrum esse hominem.]

  Plautus

  Beauty, Men, Handsome

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• There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate'er we do.
  [Lat., Est profecto deus, qui, quae nos gerimus, auditque et videt.]

  Plautus

  God

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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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• A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

  Plautus

  Mind, Contentment, Trouble

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• Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

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  Courage, Evil, Overcoming

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• It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

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  Water, Digging, Thirst

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 862-63, Mostellaria, II. 1. 32, 1922.

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• Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
  [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris,
  Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.]

  Plautus

  Eating, Morrow, Dies

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• A woman without paint is like food without salt.

  Plautus

  Salt, Paint, Without Pain

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• I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.

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  Beauty, Character, Jewels

  "Plautus: The little Carthaginian. Pseudolus. The rope".

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• Man is no man, but a wolf

  Plautus

  Animal, Men

  Titus Maccius Plautus, David R. Slavitt, Smith Palmer Bovie (1995). “Plautus: The Comedies”, p.9, JHU Press

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• It is easier to begin well than to finish well.

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  Easy, Excellent, Easier

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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.

  Plautus

  Kindness, Loss, Two

  "Trinummus". IV. 3. 43,

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• Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

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  Character, Decision, Buyers

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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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• No man has perpetual good fortune.
  [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]

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  Men, Fortune, Perpetual

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• You must spend money, if you wish to make money.

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  Money, Making Money

  "Plautus: Amphitryon. The comedy of asses. The pot of gold. The two bacchises. The captives".

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• The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

  Plautus

  Life, Success, Money

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• How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

  Plautus

  Obscurity, Talent, Highest

  "Captivi". I, 2, 62,

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• Every one can remember that which has interested himself.

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  Remembrance, Remember

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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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• He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another's experience.
  [Lat., Feliciter sapit qui alieno periculo sapit.]

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  Wisdom, Way, Gains

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• Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

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  Blessing, Men, Lost

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• If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.

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  Wise, God Provides, Goods

  Titus Maccius Plautus (1852). “The comedies of Plautus literally tr., with notes, by H.T. Riley”, p.121

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

  Plautus

  Men, Guilt, Shame

  "Bacchides". Play by Plautus,

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• It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.

  Plautus

  Disappointment, Benefits, Bitter

  "Epidicus". Book by Plautus, V, 2, 52; in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" (1922),

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