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• The gods play games with men as balls.

  Plautus

  Men, Games, Play

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 321-25, Captivi Prologue, XXII, 1922.

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• How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!

  Plautus

  Obscurity, Genius, Buried

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• Know not what you know, and see not what you see.
  [Lat., Etiam illud quod scies nesciveris;
  Ne videris quod videris.]

  Plautus

  Ignorance, Knows

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• You drown him by your talk.

  Plautus

  Speech

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• Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
  [Lat., Tardo amico nihil est quidquam iniquius.]

  Plautus

  Delay, Annoying

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• Courage is its own reward.

  Plautus

  Courage, Rewards

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• If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

  Plautus

  Overcoming, Reason, Rejoice

  "Trinummus", II. 9, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 871-82, 1922.

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• It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.

  Plautus

  Serious, Treats, Said

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• Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

  Plautus

  Country, Courage, Children

  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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• Let deeds correspond with words.
  [Lat., Dictis facta suppetant.]

  Plautus

  Deeds

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• I am myself my own commander.
  [Lat., Egomet sum mihi imperator.]

  Plautus

  Soul, My Own, Commanders

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• That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.

  Plautus

  Husband, Wife, Enemy

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• It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

  Plautus

  Speech, Way, Beats

  "Mercator". Play by Plautus, Act III, Scene 4,

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• Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged - the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.

  Plautus

  Ears, Tongue, Should

  "Pseudolus". I. 5. 12,

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• Feast today makes fast tomorrow

  Plautus

  Today, Tomorrow

  Titus Maccius Plautus (1876). “Aulularia: With Notes Critical and Exegetical and an Introd”, p.121

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• It is much easier to begin than to end.

  Plautus

  Easier, Ends

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• To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

  Plautus

  Men, Honor, Honest

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• He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment.
  [Lat., Quem dii diligunt,
  Adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.]

  Plautus

  Death, Perception, God Love

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• A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.

  Plautus

  Smell, Perfume, Wells

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• And one eye-witness weighs
  More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing,
  All the world o'er.

  Plautus

  Believe, Eye, World

  "Comedies of Plautus".

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• Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.

  Plautus

  Spring, Men, Oats

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 344-45, Trinummus, IV. 4. 128, 1922.

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• When you fly from temptation, don't leave a forwarding address. Where there's smoke there's fire.

  Plautus

  Fire, Temptation, Addresses

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• It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.

  Plautus

  Envy, Spiteful, Wells

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• Conquered, we conquer.

  Plautus

  Conquer

  "The Lot Drawers". Play by Plautus, Act II, scene viii, line 74,

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• You will stir up the hornets.
  [Lat., Irritabis crabones.]

  Plautus

  Hornets, Contention

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