Plautus Quotes - Page 3

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• Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

  Plautus

  Wish, Happens

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

  Plautus

  Courage, Evil, Overcoming

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

  Plautus

  Casts, Precipice, Ifs

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• Practice yourself what you preach.

  Plautus

  Practice, Practice What You Preach

  Titus Maccius Plautus (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Plautus (Illustrated)”, p.91, Delphi Classics

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

  Plautus

  Kindness, Men, Purpose

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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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• Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!

  Plautus

  Football, Use, Mortals

  Titus Maccius Plautus (1961). “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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• He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.

  Plautus

  Rich, Become Rich, Dues

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

  Plautus

  Mind, Affliction, Wells

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• 'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

  Plautus

  Mean, Justice, Diversity

  "Trinummus" by Plautus, Act II, sc. 4, line 37,

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

  Plautus

  Men, Fortune, Perpetual

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• Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

  Plautus

  Men, Firefighter, Occasions

  Titus Maccius Plautus (2012). “Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives”, p.323, tredition

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

  Plautus

  Money, Making Money

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

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• Every one can remember that which has interested himself.

  Plautus

  Remembrance, Remember

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• No blessing lasts forever.

  Plautus

  Blessing, Forever, Lasts

  Titus Maccius Plautus, Terence, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (1942). “The complete Roman drama: all the extant comedies of Plautus and Terence, and the tragedies of Seneca, in a variety of translations”

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

  Plautus

  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 road is best.

  Plautus

  Moderation, Middle

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

  Plautus

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

  Plautus

  Wisdom, Way, Gains

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• Never speak ill of an absent friend.

  Plautus

  Friends, Speak, Absent Mindedness

  Plautus (2007). “The Rope and Other Plays”, p.182, Penguin UK

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• A word to the wise is sufficient

  Plautus

  Wise, Wise Words, Sufficient

  Titus Maccius Plautus, James Tatum (1983). “Plautus, the darker comedies”

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

  Plautus

  Blessing, Men, Lost

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