Plautus Quotes - Page 3

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• Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

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  Wise, Men, Advice

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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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• Always bring money along with your complaints.

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  Advice, Complaints

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• Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

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  Happy Birthday, Anniversary, Wedding

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

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  Wish, Happens

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

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  Beauty, Men, Handsome

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• He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

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  Love, Death, Judging

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

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  Mean, Justice, Diversity

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

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• Riches, rightly used, breed delight.

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  Delight, Riches, Used

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

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  Men, Fortune, Perpetual

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• Practice yourself what you preach.

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  Practice, Practice What You Preach

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

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• Man is no man, but a wolf

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  Animal, Men

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

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• How great in number are the little minded men

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  Men, Numbers, Littles

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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.]

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  God

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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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• A woman without paint is like food without salt.

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  Salt, Paint, Without Pain

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

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  Eating, Morrow, Dies

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

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  Easy, Excellent, Easier

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• I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.

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  Guilt, Trifles, Esteem

  "Captivi". III. 5. 24,

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

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  Life, Success, Money

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• Every one can remember that which has interested himself.

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  Remembrance, Remember

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• The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
  [Lat., Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt lucri.]

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  Men, Giving, Profit

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