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Plautus

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“The face that thou shalt smite in earnest is bound thereafter to be boneless.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Satin parva res est voluptatum in vita atque in aetate agunda praequam quod molestum est?”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[V]irtus praemium est optimum ; virtus omnibus remus anteit profecto : libertas salus vita res et parentes, patria et prognati tutantur, servantur : virtus omnia in sese habet, omnia adsunt bona quem penest virtus.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Vincite virtute vera.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nihil agit, qui diffidentem verbis solatus suis. Is est amicus, qui in re dubia te juvat, ubi re est opus.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You are seeking a knot in a bulrush.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Menæchmi, Act II, sc. 1, line 22; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). A proverbial expression implying a desire to create doubts and difficulties where there really were none. It occurs in Teren…
“Feliciter is sapit, qui alieno periculo sapit.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium divorti potest, quin, ubi triduum continuum fuerit, jam odiosis siet.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bibite ! pergraecamini ! Este ! effercite vos !”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ego verum amo, verum vol mihi dici : mendacem odi.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Insperata accidunt magis saepe quam que speres.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nihil est miserius, quam animus hominis conscius.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Each man reaps on his own farm.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Act III, sc. 2, line 112; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“To blow and swallow at the same moment is not easy.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Act III, sc. 2, line 104; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Te de aliis, quam alios de te suavius est fieri doctos.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dictum sapienti sat est.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Male partum, male disperit.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nam multa praeter spem, scio, multis bona evenisse. At ego etiam qui speraverint, spem decepisse multos.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Animus aequus optimus est aerumnae condimentum.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[S}i sapias, sapias : habeus quod di dant boni.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rudens, Act IV, sc. 7, line 3; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Ut cuique homini res parata est, firmi amici sunt : si res labat, itidem amici collabascunt. Res amicos invenit.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Habeus ut nactus ; nota mala res optima’st.”
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“Quod tuum’st, meum’st; omne meum est autem tuum.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Non aetate, verum ingenio apiscitur sapientia.”
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“Non optuma haec sunt neque ut ego aequom censeo : verum meliora sunt quam quae deterruma.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Trinummus, Act II, sc. 2, line 111; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Non tibi illud apparere, si sumas, potest, nisi tu immortale rere esse argentum tibi. Sero atque stulte, prius quod cautum oportuit, postquam comedit rem, post rationem putat.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nequam illud verbum‘st, Bene vult, nisi qui bene facit.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ne male loquare absenti amico.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The valiant profit more Their country, than the finest cleverest speakers.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem. Qui audiunt, audita dicunt: qui vident, plane sciunt.”
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“Cogitato, mus pusillus quam sit sapiens bestia, aetatem qui uni cubili nunquam committit suam : quia si unum ostium obsideatur, aliud perfugium gerit.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Not by years but by disposition is wisdom acquired.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“These things are not for the best, nor as I think they ought to be; but still they are better than that which is downright bad.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He whom the gods favour dies in youth.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In the one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows the bread in the other.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I had a regular battle with the dunghill-cock.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“It was not for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.”
Plautus (250–184 BC) said by 184 BC at the latest bartlett, Public domain source