Plautus Quotes - Page 6

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• A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.

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  Holes, Mice

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• Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.

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  Law, Littles, Uncertain

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• The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.

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  Cutting, Men, Firsts

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• Without feathers it isn't easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
  [Lat., Sine pennis volare hau facilest: meae alae pennas non habent.]
  [Alt., Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.]

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  Wings, Flying, Aviation

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• Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.

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  Happens

  Mostellaria act 1, sc. 3, l. 40 See Robert Burns 3; Dickens 67; Disraeli 7; Modern Proverbs 102; Orwell 17; Proverbs 2; Sayings 25

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• He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.

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  Looks, Should, Wells

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• Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business, if you have begun to fit them out. Nor are these two things ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them.

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  Business, Two, Giving

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 85-87, Poenulus, I. 2. 1, 1922.

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• All men love themselves.

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  Men

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• It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master's doing.

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  Love, Degrees, Distraction

  "The Comedies of Plautus".

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• Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!

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  Daughter, Women, Delay

  Titus Maccius Plautus, Paul Nixon (1924). “Plautus: with an English translation”

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• To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.

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  Simple, Hands, Unjust

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• Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.

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  Men, Doe, Knows

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• I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.

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  Pain, Pleasure

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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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• We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.

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  Vex, Shame, Endure

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• There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.
  [Non enim potest quaestus consistere, si eum sumptus superat.]

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  Business, Profit, Exceed

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• The stronger always succeeds.

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  Strength, Stronger, Succeed

  "Truculentus". IV, 3, 30,

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• It is best to know the worst at once.

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  Worst, Knows

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• A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
  [Lat., Mulieri nimio male facere melius est onus, quam bene.]

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  Women, Anger, Males

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• How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
  [Lat., Ut acerbum est, pro benefactis quom mali messem metas!]

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  Evil, Done, Bitter

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• If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people's wrath is as heavy as lead.

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  Gratitude, Wrath, People

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• He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

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  Nuts, Cracks, Shells

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• If I can only keep my good name, I shall have riches enough.

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  Names, Riches, Enough

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• Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.

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  Thinking, Immortal, Disgrace

  "Persa", III. 1. 27, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 197, 1922.

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• If you want to do something, do it!

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  Motivational, Wise, Want

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