Plautus
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Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC, born at Sassina, Umbria) was a comic playwright in the time of the Roman Republic. The years of his life are uncertain, but his plays were first produced between about 205 BC and 184 BC.
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- Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
- Mostellaria, Act I, scene iii, line 40
- Nothing is more wretched than a guilty conscience.
- Mostellaria, Act V, scene i, line 14.
- Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
- From the Latin "Bibite, pergraecamini, ese, ecfercite vos."
- Mostellaria, 1. 64
- Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
- Epidicus, Act III, sc. iii, l. 44.
- What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.
- Trinummus, Act II, sc. ii, l. 48
- Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
- Trinummus, Act II, sc. ii, l. 88
- There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
- Captivi, Act II, sc. ii, l, 77
- Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
- Rudens, Act II, sc. v, l. 71
- Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
- Truculentus, Act IV, sc. iv, l. 15
- No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
- Miles Gloriosus, Act III, sc. i
- Practice yourself what you preach.
- Asinaria, Act III, sc. iii, l. 644
- Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.
- Asinaria, Act II, sc. iv, l. 495
- He whom the gods love dies young.
- From the Latin "Quem di diligunt adulescens moritur."
- Bacchides 816-17. Derived from Menander's The Double Deceiver; but only the Plautine version was known until the rediscovery of Menander in the 20th century.
