Plautus Quotes - Page 7

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• Confidence begets confidence.
  Courage, an independent spark from heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone.
  Courage in danger is half the battle.

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  Independent, Heaven, Soul

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• All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.

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  Men, Good Man, Guilt

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• Virtue is the highest reward. Virtue truly goes before all things. Liberty, safety, life, property, parents, country, and children are protected and preserved. Virtue has all things in herself; he who has virtue has all things that are good attending him.
  [Lat., Virtus praemium est optimum.
  Virtus omnibus rebus anteit profecto.
  Libertas, salus, vita, res, parentes,
  Patria et prognati tutantur, servantur;
  Virtus omnia in se habet; omnia assunt bona, quem penes est vertus.]

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  Country, Children, Safety

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• Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

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  Men, Delay, World

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• He can do most who has most power.

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  Can Do

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• I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.)
  [Lat., Oleum et operam perdidi.]

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  Oil, Vain, Lost

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• Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.

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  Home, Looks, Faults

  Titus Maccius Plautus, Richard Warner (1872). “Comedies of Plautus”, p.201

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• Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.

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  Hope, Wish

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• I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

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  Criticism, Compliment, Sincere

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• You will not be a chip the richer.

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  Chips

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• You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.]

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  Grief, Meals, Stores

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• He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.

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  Taken

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• You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
  [Lat., Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad judicem.]

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  Law, Littles, Ticklish

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• I know that we women are all justly accounted praters; they say in the present day that there never was in any age such a wonder to be found as a dumb woman.
  [Lat., Nam multum loquaces merito omnes habemus,
  Nec mutam profecto repertam ullam esse
  Hodie dicunt mulierem ullo in seculo.]

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  Women, Dumb, Age

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• That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.

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  Knows

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• Fire is next akin to smoke.

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  Fire, Next, Smoke

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• Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
  [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]

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  Men, Life Is, Fortune

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• Tattletales, and those who listen to their slander, by my good will, should all be hanged. The former by their tongues, the latter by their ears.
  [Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina, si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant gestores linguis, auditores auribus.]

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  Gossip, Ears, Tongue

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• The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.

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  Women, Perfume

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• Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

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  Men, Wrath, Giving

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• Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.

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  Life, Honey, Taste

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• And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
  [Lat., Itidemque ut saepe jam in multis locis,
  Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni.]

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  Jam, Done, Goodness

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• Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

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  Men, Remember, Forget

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• Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability

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  Wisdom, Years, Ability

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• He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

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  Gains, Expenses

  "Asinaria". Play by Plautus, I, 3, 65,

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